Leopard's PHP Doesn't Come With GD

Unfortunately, Leopard's PHP installation does not ship with a GD module. If you use this PHP version, Drupal will report that it can't find a GD library (and no image processing will be performed either). There is a tutorial on the web that explains step by step how to compile GD2 for the stock PHP 5.2.4 that comes with Leopard; however, PHP segfaults after the installation (at least for me).

I don't know what they were thinking when they omitted this, but this isn't the first issue I've had getting a MAMP stack up and running. I miss Linux.