payflow pro configure

Hi,
I think I'm pretty close to getting this working but I
rarely do configurations on unix systems so I'm stuck
right now. I've built the code to take in the credit
card information along with a page to process it with
the payflow pro functions but I can't test because php
isn't configured for it yet. The actual .so and .h
files are in their proper directories I just don't
have a good graspe on how to run the ./configure
command and then do the php make afterwards. I have
access to run commands and the right permissions but I
don't know exactly where to run the configure and make
commands along with their syntax. 

Here's what I tried:
- went to /usr/lib/php4 and did ./configure
--with-pfpro=/directory/where/payflow/is/installed

- then i couldn't figure out the make part

I'm sure this is probably simple for some people so if
you could help steer me in the right direction it
would really help me.

Thanks,
Sarah