Installing on RH9

I am trying to install mod_log_sql 1.97 on RH9 and am running into a 
problem.  When I run ./configure, I get the following:

*** MySQL could not be found ***
configure: error: *** Mysql client libraries not found!

But, the libraries are there:

/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.10
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.10.0.0
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.10
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.10.0.0

I am running mysql 3.23.56 and apache 2.0

I have also read about people having problems when compiling and not 
being able to find ssl.h, I have not seen a solution.  Any idea if this 
is going to be a problem, or any other issues I should know about when 
building on RH9?

Thanks, Ron