The run down: I run Mac OS 10.4.10 MySQL is located at: /usr/local/mysql Therefore the libraries are at: /usr/local/mysql/lib Now, I do this: ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --enable-debug Works good. Then I do make and make test. Oops! PHP thinks my MySQL libraries are in /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql !! Notice the extra /mysql at the end. What's the deal? How do I fix this? I popped open my Makefile and everywhere I looked it shows /usr/local/mysql/lib Here's the "offical" error: dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib Referenced from: /Users/jeremy/Desktop/php-5.2.3/sapi/cli/php Reason: image not found make: [test] Error 133 (ignored) Code (markup):