FYI and FWIW, when installing Embperl 2.5.0.4 from source with mod_perl support, it seems to be necessary to install mod_perl-2.0.11 from source i.e. perl Makefile.PL;make; make install.
Mod_perl Makefile.PL creates the file BuildConfig.pm which Embperl Makefile.PL expects when it checks to see if Mod_perl is installed. perl 5.16 CentOS 7 Apache 2.4 Embperl 2.5.0.4 perl