can't find libproj.so

[nakiya123]

I am trying to use an OGRCoordinateTransformation object but it fails
with:

ERROR 6: Unable to load PROJ.4 library (libproj.so), creation of
OGRCoordinateTransformation failed.

My program uses the proj4 library directly for coordinate
transformations(pj_fwd, etc.) and it works, so it must be finding the
library. It's in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I even set it up in my
ld.so.conf path/setup stuff. It shows in this:

% ldconfig -p | grep -i proj
libproj.so.0 (libc6) => /home/dmingus/lib/proj4/lib/libproj.so.0
libproj.so (libc6) => /home/dmingus/lib/proj4/lib/libproj.so
libmrproject.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libmrproject.so.0

I'm running RH8.0 with gcc-3.2.7, gdal from cvs(thanks for j2k!!!),
and proj-4.4.4 AND I've tried proj-4.4.5 both from source. Any
suggestions?