Upgrade to PHP5 and having issues with mysql

Hey- I'm trying to install PHP5 with mysql support and I keep running into the same problem over and over again. I run the configuration with this: --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql and without fail I get this every time: ext/mysql/php_mysql.o: In function `zif_mysql_create_db': /home/tech/upgrades/php-5.2.5/ext/mysql/php_mysql.c:1227: undefined reference to `mysql_create_db' ext/mysql/php_mysql.o: In function `zif_mysql_drop_db': /home/tech/upgrades/php-5.2.5/ext/mysql/php_mysql.c:1266: undefined reference to `mysql_drop_db' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [sapi/cgi/php-cgi] Error 1 What am I doing wrong here? I'm running mysql 5.0.45 located at /usr/local/mysql which would my my lib directory at /usr/local/mysql/lib I have updated my ld.so.conf file to point to that and I'm still running into issues here. Any thoughts or pointers on what I am doing wrong here? I've never had an issue before but I never had to compile PHP with mysql support since it was always part of the install. Thanks!