Changing the soname of libphp4.so

Is there a easy way to change the internal soname? I need to build the embeded sapi with a different internal soname. Yes, I can rename libphp4.so (the embeded version) to libphp4-embed.so, but things that link with libphp4-embed.so will have a dependency of libphp.so because that is what the internal soname is. This is causing problems because it will then load the wrong shared library (wrong sapi) if we have libphp4-embed.so and libphp4.so (apache sapi). If there is no easy way, can you give me pointers on what I need to patch/hack to get it to work. I will just maintain another company specific patch. Thanks, Brian