Sophie and Redhat 9: ./configure fails

Hi,

I am unable to compile sophie on Redhat 9.
./configure failes with:
checking for location of libsavi... /usr/local/lib
checking for SAVIsweepFile in -lsavi... no
** libsavi library NOT FOUND
** You need libsavi in order to use Sophie.
** Download it at http://www.sophos.com/

# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libsa*
lrwxrwxrwx    2 root     root           21 feb  8 00:00
/usr/local/lib/libsavi.so -> libsavi.so.3.2.07.046
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 feb  8 00:01
/usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.2 -> libsavi.so.3.2.07.046
lrwxrwxrwx    2 root     root           21 feb  8 00:00
/usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.3 -> libsavi.so.3.2.07.046
-r-xr-xr-x    1 bin      bin       1483780 feb  8 00:00
/usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.3.2.07.046

Yes, I have read the thread history about this but no solution for me
there.
Please help.

Groeten,
Peter de Jong