When trying to run configure I call out:
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache-vip1/bin/apxs 

and configure returns:

1Sorry, I was not able to successfully run APXS.  Possible reasons:

1.  Perl is not installed;
2.  Apache was not compiled with DSO support (--enable-module=so);
3.  'apxs' is not in your path.  Try to use --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs
The output of /usr/local/apache-vip1/bin/apxs follows
Usage: apxs -g [-S <var>=<val>] -n <modname>
       apxs -q [-S <var>=<val>] <query> ...
       apxs -c [-S <var>=<val>] [-o <dsofile>] [-D <name>[=<value>]]
               [-I <incdir>] [-L <libdir>] [-l <libname>] [-Wc,<flags>]
               [-Wl,<flags>] <files> ...
       apxs -i [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ...
       apxs -e [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ...
configure: error: Aborting

Now maybe its because I'm not root, but I'm having lots of the same types of problems on a RedHat 7.2 machine even though I am root on that one.  Perl is installed in the /usr/local/lib/perl5.  Also the return from apxs is in the output of the error.  I think the configure script is horribly broken in 4.1.2