compiling issue with apxs it appears....

Here is basically my problem, it finds apxs fine, but gives a syntax error: su-2.05# ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs loading cache ./config.cache checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.6 checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... none checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for AIX... no checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking whether compiler supports -R... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for gawk... (cached) awk checking for bison... no checking for byacc... byacc configure: warning: You will need bison if you want to regenerate the PHP parsers. checking for flex... flex checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes checking lex output file root... lex.yy checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes checking for working const... yes checking for pthreads_cflags... -pthread checking for pthreads_lib... Configuring SAPI modules checking for AOLserver support... no checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS... 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. Try to use --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs The output of /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs follows Usage: apxs -g [-S <var>=<val>] -n <modname> apxs -q [-S <var>=<val>] <query> ... apxs -c [-S <var>=<val>] [-o <dsofile>] [-D <name>[=<value>]] [-I <incdir>] [-L <libdir>] [-l <libname>] [-Wc,<flags>] [-Wl,<flags>] <files> ... apxs -i [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ... apxs -e [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ... configure: error: Aborting I'm not sure what to do, any guidance would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. j