[plug] PHP compilation

[Ryan]

I have been playing around with PHP4 compilation as I normally just use the 
default debian package.

Everything goes well, once finished the libphp4.so file required for apache 
is no where to be found,
all I have that looks useful is:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      9487630 Mar 25 21:23 libphp4.a

Can this be converted to a .so file for use with apache or can this .a file 
be used by apache through
some means I am unaware?

.. and yes, I have spent about 4 hours reading posts on the web to no avail.

Thanks,

Ryan