26.07.2010: Updated and improved to work with MAMP ver. 1.9. If you are not a pecl auto make ninja, pls resort to the manual build if PECL modules then it give you more control.
This howto will show you how to get those pesky PECL modules to compile on MAMP. Drupal background, FileField and ImageField 3.0 for Drupal 6 are now finally released, and the final release enables upload progress indication that come in handy uploading large file but this enhancement requires a PECL module (PHP extension), uploadprogress. Many OS X users are using MAMP to sandbox their development environment but getting PECL to compile is not quite that easy.
Tired of typing passwords to SSH servers you often access? Well get used to it then this give you the highest level of security out there, BUT it have a tendency be boring and also prevent you from running scripts that automagicly move content between your computer and server. The good news it that there is a simple solution to this but first some background history.