Install Sophie 3.04rc2 with Plesk on Redhat 9 anyone???

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I'm running a 1&1 Redhat 9 server with:

Sophos (Product ver: 3.89.0, Engine ver: 2.27.1, Virus data ver: 3.89, User interface ver: 2.07.082)

And would like to get Sophie-3.04rc2 working with this and have hit a snag.
Whenever I try to compile Sophie I get the following error:

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/

That is despite having the libsavi installed in the correct place:

ll /usr/local/lib/libsavi.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 4 18:50 /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so -> /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 4 17:32 /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.2 -> libsavi.so.3.2.07.082
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 4 17:32 /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.3 -> libsavi.so.3.2.07.082
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1610060 Jan 4 17:32 /usr/local/lib/libsavi.so.3.2.07.082

Now I have read somewhere that it’s possible to statically build Sophie on a Redhat 8 box and use the files on a Redhat 9 box but as I don't have access to a Redhat 8 box I can not test this. Does anyone have any pointers to a workaround or other resources that may help??

Many thanks in advance.