yeah, EMPTY all makefiles are the same.
I was able to partially repair this issue by manually editing the config.status file and re-running the configuration that way.
Then we can see that all the make files get filled...
however improperly.
this header file wchar.h should be available somewhere but I haven't gotten that far yet.
no reason the OS X cannot suport the wchar. just there is no standard header for it...
expat and XSLT install just fine now if I could get theme into PHP 4.2.1 with sablotron it would all seem very nice...