php u8t canonical,configure: error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing

This exact same problem came up for me on Fedora when trying to compile PHP 5.5.0.

The problem is related to the '--with-imap' configuration parameter.

In order to solve this problem I compiled my own version of imap from the latest source (currently imap-2007f) and to do that I had to install some prerequisites. On fedora I did this...

yum install openssl openssl-devel pam-devel

wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-2007f.tar.gz

tar zxvf imap-2007f.tar.gz

Then I had to make a soft link so the compiler could find the libraries. In my case I did the following:

mkdir /usr/local/ssl

ln -s /usr/include /usr/local/ssl/include

and then compile:

cd imap-2007f

make lnp SSLTYPE=unix EXTRACFLAGS=-fPIC

Then I was able to compile PHP by adding the imap source path to the config param like so:

/path/to/php/src> ./configure ...other_params... '--with-imap=/path/to/imap-2007f' '--with-imap-ssl'

make

make install