php410, gd=shared, missing gd.so

Hi, Under php4.0.6 my configure/make/makeinstall created a gd.so file (which is picked up when using <? dl("gd.so"); ?>). Under php4.1.0 my install creates a gd.a file, and <? dl("gd.so"); ?> doesn't work anymore. If I compile it in as non shared, it works just fine. I am using it as .so to keep the httpd size down and performance up as we don't use GD very much on our server. I use PHP4.1.0/GD2.0.1/Apache1.3.22. Has anyone got any ideas? Here is my configure line. "./configure" \ "--with-apache= /usr/local/src/apache_1.3.22" \ "--prefix= /usr/local/php" \ "--with-mysql= /usr/local/mysql" \ "--with-pgsql= /usr/local/pgsql" \ "--with-gd=shared" \ "--with-freetype-dir= /usr/local/include/freetype2" \ "--with-jpeg-dir" \ "--with-png-dir" \ "--with-zlib" \ "--disable-debug" \ "--enable-sysvsem" \ "--enable-sysvshm" \ "--enable-sockets" \ "--enable-track-vars" \ "--enable-gd-native-tt" \ "$@" TIA Jason Donald.