I decided to rebuild:
./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local
went fine. But look at this:

server167# make
cc -DF_CONF=\"/usr/local/etc/pound.cfg\" -DVERSION=\"`cat VERSION`\" -g 
-O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -DUPER -DNEED_STACK -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 
-I/usr/local/include  -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -Wstrict-prototypes 
-pipe -c config.c
config.c:1:3: invalid preprocessing directive #STUFF
config.c:2:3: invalid preprocessing directive #This
config.c:4: error: syntax error before "Type"
config.c:36: error: syntax error before "static"
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/Pound-2.0.

Here's usr/local/etc/pound.cfg (I took out the LogLevel stuff which 
didn't seem to help):

ListenHTTP
  Address 0.0.0.0
  Port    80
  End
            Service
                 TimeOut 30
                 BackEnd
                     Address 202.71.106.119
                     Port    8080
                 End
             End
End

TIA,
beno