none:0: open: /opt/bind/etc/named.conf: file not found

Hello-

Im trying to setup bind 9.2.5 on my fedora 4 box.
I compiled from scratch with --prefix=/opt/bind
make
make install

then put all the files in /opt/bind/etc

When I run, I get the following in messages:

Sep 30 15:58:13 fedora named[26351]: starting BIND 9.2.5 -u named -t
/var/named/chroot
Sep 30 15:58:13 fedora named[26351]: using 1 CPU
Sep 30 15:58:13 fedora named[26351]: loading configuration from
'/opt/bind/etc/named.conf'
Sep 30 15:58:13 fedora named[26351]: none:0: open:
/opt/bind/etc/named.conf: file not found
Sep 30 15:58:13 fedora named[26351]: loading configuration: file not
found
Sep 30 15:58:13 fedora named[26351]: exiting (due to fatal error)

ls -l /opt/bind/etc/named.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 1219 Sep 30 15:02 /opt/bind/etc/named.conf

The file exists, so why does the log say file not found?

confusing error message, seems like it should be more specific?

So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks