Christoph Hormann wrote:

> If two programs have trouble with libpng/zlib things seem quit clear to me.

Yep...


> Which surely is dynamically linked against the system libpng.  Fix your 
> libs or build your own using the libraries coming with POV-Ray and you 
> will be fine.

"Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
   ZLib 1.2.3, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
   LibPNG 1.2.8, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
   LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
   LibTIFF 3.7.3, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI"

(Don't you find I'm the laziest person on earth?)

> If your system libpng is broken it is astonishing though that you don't 
> experience a lot of other problems.

Hmm... never experienced a single crash in a month. Until now that is... 
maybe I'll just try and reboot first...

--
Jonathan.

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