OpenSSL/Cyrus-sasl Problems

[cflhosting]

My end goal here is to be able to auth in sendmail. I'm following 2 guides here,
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html
and
http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/sendmail_smtp_auth_tls/index.php

I installed openssl(once by apt-get), then once by source(after removing the apt-get install). Everything seems to be fine there.

tar xvfz openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.7c
./config
make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl

Now I'm trying to configure Cyrus, with these options:

./configure --enable-anon --enable-plain --enable-login --disable-krb4 --with-saslauthd=/var/run/saslauthd --with-pam --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --with-plugindir=/usr/local/lib/sasl2 --enable-cram --enable-digest --enable-otp

However, during that , I get some warnings that it can't find SSL

checking DIGEST-MD5... enabled
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL not found -- OTP will be disabled
checking OTP... disabled
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL not found -- SRP will be disabled
checking SRP... disabled

If I try to make, I get an error and it fails, looking for a des.h. I looked at the .c file that causes the error, it lists the include file at <openssl/des.h>

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.