apache problem on startup w/ libmhash

(Sorry for the cross-post; I'd like to get this solved, as I haven't been able to find a solution for several months.) I have installed mhash and libmcrypt (and mcrypt, for that matter), configured php with both of the extensions, and compiled PHP (as a DSO), and apache gives the following error when I attempt to start it: Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so into server: libmhash.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Here are the details: Webserver: - apache-1.3.19 compiled with (- mm-1.1.3) - mod_ssl-2.8.1-1.3.19 (compiled as a static module) PHP (DSO): - php-4.0.4pl1 compiled with extensions: - libmcrypt-2.4.7 - mhash-0.8.9 I installed mcrypt-2.2.6 as well, but I soon realized that the PHP documentation said I should install libmcrypt, not mcrypt. Interestingly, php never complained that libmcrypt was not installed during configure. I'm not a *nix guru, and I don't understand completely how the dynamic linking process works, but this seems wrong. Any thoughts? I'm pretty desperate here. :-) Otherwise I'll have to start using the openssl shell command. Dean Hall. Apt7.com Web Services