PHP 5.1.0b2 (CGI) on Fedora 4 *never* reads /etc/php.ini; doesn't build /usr/lib/php/modules/*.so

Has anyone encountered this? I cant get any of the attributes in /etc/php.ini to be read, even when built with: make clean && ./configure --with-config-file-path=/etc/ --with-unixODBC --with-mod_charset --enable-discard-path --with-zlib --enable-bcmath --with-curl --with-inifile --enable-exif --enable-ftp --with-gd --with-ldap --enable-sockets --disable-libxml --disable-dom --disable-simplexml --disable-xml --without-pear && make && make install File perms are fine. Additionally, I have modules compiled in, but the error log mentions it cant load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules/gd.so' (because it truly doesn't exist). Why is this version of PHP not creating the module directories anymore?? Help!!!!! :-) ken