installing 9.6 on freebsd7 configure problems

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Hi: I'm trying to install BIND 9.6.0 from source but am having problems with 
the configure statement. I tried:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb --mandir=/usr/share/man \
   --localstatedir=/var --disable-threads --with-openssl=/usr

followed by "make && make install"

and 9.6 was installed, but when I try to start it I receive an error

Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: starting BIND 9.6.0 -t /var/named -u bind
Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: built with '--with-openssl'
Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: file not 
found
Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: loading configuration: file not found
Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: exiting (due to fatal error)

shouldn't the "open" statement be pointing at "/etc/namedb/named.conf" and 
if so, what did I do wrong? Or do I have to manually edit a path somewhere?