Holy eff. it was a snippet issue.

bin/compile

@@ -38,27 +38,26 @@ DRUSH_URL="http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-7.x-$DRUSH_VERSION.tar.gz"
 echo "-----> Bundling Drush version $DRUSH_VERSION"
 curl --silent --max-time 60 --location "$DRUSH_URL" | tar xz
 
+# update config files
+cp $LP_DIR/conf/httpd.conf $APACHE_PATH/conf
+cp $LP_DIR/conf/php.ini php
+
 # make php available on bin
 mkdir -p bin
 ln -s /app/php/bin/php bin/php
 
 # Check if drupal install profile
 if [ -f build-*.make ] && [ ! -d www ]; then
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=php/ext ./php/bin/php -f drush/drush.php make build-test.make www --php=php/bin/php
-  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=php/ext ./php/bin/php -f drush/drush.php site-install minimal --yes --php=php/bin/php --root=www
-  #cp www/sites/default/default.settings.php www/sites/default/settings.php
-  #echo "-----> Appending settings.php snippets..."
-  #for f in tmp/snippets/*.settings.php
-  #do
-  #  # Concatenate newline and snippet, then append to settings.php
-  #  echo "" | cat - $f | tee -a www/sites/default/settings.php > /dev/null
-  #done
+  cp www/sites/default/default.settings.php www/sites/default/settings.php
+  echo "-----> Appending settings.php snippets..."
+  for f in tmp/snippets/*.settings.php
+  do
+    # Concatenate newline and snippet, then append to settings.php
+    echo "" | cat - $f | tee -a www/sites/default/settings.php > /dev/null
+  done
 fi
 
-# update config files
-cp $LP_DIR/conf/httpd.conf $APACHE_PATH/conf
-cp $LP_DIR/conf/php.ini php
-
 cat >>boot.sh <<EOF
 for var in \`env|cut -f1 -d=\`; do
   echo "PassEnv \$var" >> /app/apache/conf/httpd.conf;