> No - dynamic linking should handle this problem (correct me if I'm wrong).

	Dynamic linking is used for pre-installed libraries which versions
are at least (or above) that of the libraries provided with POV-Ray.  For
instance, if you have an hypothetical libpng-1.3.1 while POV-Ray requires
at least libpng-1.2.5, the POV-Ray binary will be linked with your shared
library libpng-1.3.1.  Otherwise POV-Ray will configure and build the
libpng-1.2.5 sources provided in the package, and statically link with it.
	The console output of configure is quite clear about this.

> However, the prepackaged binary is statically linked

	That should not be the case with the binary you obtained on your
FC2 distro since you said zlib didn't have to build there.  Therefore
at least this library (as well as probably libpng and libjpeg) should be
dynamically linked with the povray binary.  Maybe only libtiff will be
linked statically (assuming FC2 does not ship with the most recent
version of libtiff).

	- NC

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