compile with apxs

I am trying to configure php using --with-apxs .. here is my configure file ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/www/bin --with-mysql=/usr/local/ mysql --enable-discard-path --enable-safe-mode --enable-calendar --with-dom-dir =ext/domxml --enable-ftp --with-gd=shared --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-java=/usr /java/jre --with-pdflib=shared --with-sablot=ext/sablot --with-expat-dir=/usr - -with-regex=system --with-swf when it gets to the apxs part I get this error Configuring SAPI modules checking for AOLserver support... no checking for Apache module support via DSO through APXS... ./configure: apxs: command not found Sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS. Possible reasons: 1. Perl is not installed; 2. Apache was not compiled with DSO support (--enable-module=so); 3. 'apxs' is not in your path. configure: error: ; Perl is installed.. which perl produces /usr/bin/perl httpd -l shows mod_so.c and apxs is pointing to the current path of my apache bin directory. I am not sure what else to try. Can someone help me out please. Thanks in advance. Chad