php install.upgrade on RH 7.1 and MySQL

I have been reading and working and doing more reading trying to get PHP (4.0.5 and 4.0.6), MySQL working an Redhat 7.1 This is what I know: php-4.0.4pl1-9.i386.rpm works as advertised. I get the phpinfo() command to give me a lot of information including the version but it does not support MySQL. MySQL works I have downloaded the patch php 4.0.6 and tried to do the ./configure using the appropriate --with-mysql =/to/source/path. I do not get any errors. I delete the .cache file and run make and make install. I do not get any errors... that I can see. I can't get the latest version to show up in the page generated from phpinfo() and the configure command does not match the one i used and the build Date is march 3 2001. Can somebody please shed some light on why I can't get this to work? thanks gerald