Apache error after setting path for mysql=

I reconfigured php with ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/etc/mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/etc/apache/bin/apxs and apache will no longer start. I removed the path from the mysql to get the webserver back up but my question was why would it not be able to find libmysqlclient.so.10 (error down below). The file is located at /usr/local/etc/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10 ... any reason its not picking up the fact that its there when I pointed it to the directory I told mysql to install to? Cannot load /usr/local/etc/apache/libexec/libphp4.so into server: Shared object "libmysqlclient.so.10" not found -Shane