mhash...<sigh>

hi, seems like mhash just wont work. tried mhash 0.8.3 and 0.8.4. make check succeeds. make install dumps it in /usr/local/lib. php's configure reports "checking for mhash support... no" this is php 4.0.3pl1 i tried --with-mhash, --enable-mhash=/usr/local/lib, both, other permutations, etc. i added /usr/local/lib to ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig. i even tried copying the mhash libs to /usr/lib and so forth and so on...this is really getting stupid. php is great, but i have _never_ gotten it to compile on the first shot. i ALWAYS get complaints from mhash, or mcrypt, or libmcrypt, mysql, or something else. this is strange to me because all of these programs mentioned are very simple configure/make/make install deals... and pouring over the lists, it looks like im not the only one. are we all just losers, or is php's config deal a bit...unintuitive? fred