Weird Problem Compiling EXIF Module into PHP

First I went to phpinfo() and copied the configure string. I added --with-exif (and APXS) and restarted Apache. Now when I look at phpinfo() it has --with-exif listed and it lists 'Server API' as Apache. Doesn't that mean that PHP is being used from Apache?

Anyway, when I actually list the PHP modules with get_loaded_extensions(), EXIF is not listed, and is therefore not usable.

How is possible that I recompiled PHP with EXIF, it shows it in phpinfo, but it never actually gets loaded?

Thanks for any info on this.

 

I also just added --with-exif in the 5 different configure lines in buildscript, executed it, and the same problem still exists. EXIF is not being loaded at all.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

 

Some more info, if I do 'php -m' this lists the libraries from the cgi version of PHP. This exactly matches the libraries which are loaded. How can this be? How can I update the cgi version of PHP? Why is it so mixed up?

 

And some more info:

in php.ini it lists "extension=exif.so", but I don't have any file calles exif.so so I get this in the error_log:

PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './exif.so' - ./exif.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

I'm completely confused here, if anyone has any ideas what's going on I'd like to know, thanks.