[Python] On CentOS, how do I build Python 3.9 from source while incorporating my openssl...

I'm trying to build Python 3.9.1 with SSL support on CentOS 7.

[myuser@server Python-3.9.1]$ which openssl
/usr/local/bin/openssl
[myuser@server Python-3.9.1]$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020


Running this command

sudo ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/openssl/lib" --with-ssl


followed by "make" worked for Python 3.7, but when i run the above on 3.9 and then run make I get this output

...
Python build finished successfully!
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_lzma _tkinter _uuid
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.


The following modules found by detect_modules() in setup.py, have been
built by the Makefile instead, as configured by the Setup files:
_abc atexit pwd
time


Following modules built successfully but were removed because they could not be imported:
_hashlib _ssl


Could not build the ssl module!
Python requires an OpenSSL 1.0.2 or 1.1 compatible libssl with X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host().
LibreSSL 2.6.4 and earlier do not provide the necessary APIs, https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/381

running build_scripts
creating build/scripts-3.9
copying and adjusting /usr/src/Python-3.9.1/Tools/scripts/pydoc3 -> build/scripts-3.9
copying and adjusting /usr/src/Python-3.9.1/Tools/scripts/idle3 -> build/scripts-3.9
copying and adjusting /usr/src/Python-3.9.1/Tools/scripts/2to3 -> build/scripts-3.9
changing mode of build/scripts-3.9/pydoc3 from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.9/idle3 from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.9/2to3 from 644 to 755
renaming build/scripts-3.9/pydoc3 to build/scripts-3.9/pydoc3.9
renaming build/scripts-3.9/idle3 to build/scripts-3.9/idle3.9
renaming build/scripts-3.9/2to3 to build/scripts-3.9/2to3-3.9
/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Tools/gdb/libpython.py python-gdb.py
gcc -pthread -c -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fvisibility=hidden -I./Include/internal -I. -I./Include -I/usr/local/openssl/include -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Programs/_testembed.o ./Programs/_testembed.c
gcc -pthread -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -Xlinker -export-dynamic -o Programs/_testembed Programs/_testembed.o libpython3.9.a -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lm
sed -e "s,@EXENAME@,/usr/local/bin/python3.9," < ./Misc/python-config.in >python-config.py
LC_ALL=C sed -e 's,\$(\([A-Za-z0-9_]*\)),\$\{\1\},g' < Misc/python-config.sh >python-config


So evidently Python 3.9 has NOT been built with SSL. What else do I need to do to build Python 3.9 with the openssl module I have installed?

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