Answwring myself:  "make distclean", set LDFLAGS=-L/path-to-ssl-lib and then configure and make.
 
                       __Yehavi:

2010/1/13 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com>
Hello,
 
  I suspect that the Openssl library used on fedora is a modified one and has some interoperability problems with phones. I would like to build freeswitch with a library from openssl.org which is installed under /usr/local. Is there an easy way to tell  "configure" script to use that version instead?
 
                                 Thanks, __Yehavi: