This is not a shell script.  Most of the steps do not require intervention, but there are some
manual configuration steps that you should not ignore.

-- SETUP --

cd $HOME
mkdir src
mkdir local

# Ensure that the following environment variables include the local path

PATH -> /usr/home/YOURACCOUNTID/local/bin
LDFLAGS -> -L/usr/home/YOURACCOUNTNAME/local/lib
CPPFLAGS -> -I/usr/home/YOURACCOUNTNAME/local/include
LD_LIBRARY_PATH -> /usr/home/YOURACCOUNTNAME/local/lib
LD_RUN_PATH -> /usr/home/YOURACCOUNTNAME/local/lib

-- LIBPNG --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.25.tar.gz
tar xzf libpng-1.2.25.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.25
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make
make install

-- FREETYPE --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
tar jxf freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
cd freetype-2.3.5
setenv GNUMAKE gmake
./configure  --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
gmake
gmake install

-- LIBJPEG --

cd $HOME/src
fetch ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar zxf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
./configure  --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make
make install
make install-lib

-- LIBICONV --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.12.tar.gz
tar zxf libiconv-1.12.tar.gz
cd libiconv-1.12
./configure  --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make
make install

# This may only be required if you're using csh
rehash

-- GD 2 --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://www.libgd.org/releases/gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
tar xzf gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.35
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared  --with-libiconv-prefix=$HOME/local --with-png=$HOME/local --with-freetype=$HOME/local --with-jpeg=$HOME/local
make
make install

-- PROJ.4 --

cd $HOME/src
fetch ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.6.0.tar.gz
tar zxf proj-4.6.0.tar.gz
cd proj-4.6.0
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make
make install

-- GDAL --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.5.1.tar.gz
tar zxf gdal-1.5.1.tar.gz
cd gdal-1.5.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --without-libtool --without-odbc --without-ld-shared --disable-shared --with-static-proj4=$HOME/local --with-png=$HOME/local --with-jpeg=$HOME/local 

# Modify GDALmake.opt
#  Change GDAL_FORMATS to "gtiff hfa iso8211 sdts mem vrt wms gif jpeg png raw"
#  Others may work, but I was running into problems and cut it down to the minimum working set for me.

gmake
gmake install

# -- GEOS --
#
# For some reason this didn't work properly with MapServer.  It found it OK, but hundred of errors.
# cd $HOME/src
# fetch http://geos.refractions.net/downloads/geos-3.0.0.tar.bz2
# tar jxf geos-3.0.0.tar.bz2
# cd geos-3.0.0
# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared 
# make
# make install

-- AGG --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://www.antigrain.com/agg-2.4.tar.gz
tar zxf agg-2.4.tar.gz
cd agg-2.4
cp Makefile.in.Linux Makefile.in.FreeBSD
gmake

-- PHP --

cd $HOME/src
fetch -o php-5.2.5.tar.bz2  http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.5.tar.bz2/from/www.php.net/mirror
tar jxf php-5.2.5.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.5
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install
strip php-cgi

# copy php-cgi to your website's cgi-bin directory, renamed to php5-ms.cgi   Make sure that it is chmod 755

# Configure php.ini (in $HOME/local/lib) to set the extension_dir to /usr/home/YOURUSERID/local/lib/php/extensions and
# to specify a valid directory for session.save_path

-- MAPSERVER --

cd $HOME/src
fetch http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-5.0.2.tar.gz
tar zxf mapserver-5.0.2.tar.gz
cd mapserver-5.0.2
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-runpath --with-gdal=$HOME/local/bin/gdal-config --with-ogr --with-proj=$HOME/local --with-php=$HOME/local --with-gd=$HOME/local --with-freetype=$HOME/local --with-agg=$HOME/src/agg-2.4
gmake
strip mapserv
strip mapscript/php3/php_mapscript.so

# Once this is complete, you will want to copy mapserv into your website's cgi-bin directory and 
# copy php_mapscript.so into $HOME/local/lib/php/extensions

# For any directory you want to use MapScript in, you will need to set the following two lines in your .htaccess
# to point to the php CGI that you compiled and configured earlier:
#
#  AddHandler ms-php-script .php
#  Action ms-php-script /cgi-bin/php5-ms.cgi 
#