Trying your new libapreq2-2.12, specifying the apxs path to Makefile.PL under FreeBSD 6.3, yields the following in the 'make' step:
Making all in apache2 make: don't know how to make all-local. Stop *** Error code 1 Stop in /build/libapreq2-2.12/module. *** Error code 1 Stop in /build/libapreq2-2.12. Best Regards, Craig MacKenna http://www.animalhead.com