Solved problem trying to configure PHP with GD support

Problem

I was just trying to install PHP from source code on a CentOS Linux box, specifically trying to configure PHP with GD support with a configure command like this:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
            --with-mysql \
            --with-gd

Unfortunately this configure command fails, ending with the following two lines of error output:

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