Hello, just a quick, and probably redundant, note of follow-up and thanks after recent discussion of ssl and mod_perl on jaguar. I can confirm that david wheeler's instructions work nicely when compiling apache with mod_perl 1.27 and perl 5.8.0, apache 1.3.26 and mod_ssl whatever it was. the latest, anyway.
the only discrepancy I found was in making expat: with 1.95.5 you don't need to -pi the Makefiles between configure and make (and anyway, they're not there). and I ended up copying libssl.a into /usr/lib rather than trying to work out what was going with the widespread refusal to find it. it's probably worth mentioning that apple's httpd.conf is incompatible with David's mostly-statically linked httpd, which had me staring stupidly at the screen for a while. I still don't know why - mod_so is in there, after all - but LoadModule is out. After lots of fruitless cargo-cult reconfiguring, I built apache --with-layout=Apache instead of persisting with Darwin, copied over the salient bits of conf and it worked first time. many thanks to all, and especially to David & Randal for the machete work. will ps. instructions can be found at http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html in case you've found this at develooper and teeter on the brink of -ldbm withdrawal delirium.
