PHP, MySQL, * Mandrake 8.1

Hi All, I am trying to use MySQL from PHP. I get the error message: call to undefined function: mysql_connect() Based on what I've read, I need to compile PHP with the --use-mysql=/path/to/mysql option. This was not enough information to get the compile to work. (I tried every directory that had *any* mysql files in it.) So I ended up compiling just using --use-mysql. This seemed to work, php -v gives me 4.0.6. However, the error still exists: undefined function: mysql_connect() (MySQL is definitely installed. I have used the client to build a small database which I can query against.) Could someone please give me a hand here? jce