Problem installing OpenSSH

[Yuri Desyatnik]

When I run ./configure for openSSH, the operation terminates with the
following error:

checking for OpenSSL directory...configure: error: Could not find
working SSLeay / OpenSSL libraries, please install

OpenSSL is installed (0.9.6) and operational.

Here is my path statement:

PATH=$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr:/usr/local:/usr/local/lib:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME:$HOME/bin

What could be wrong??