diff -urN fungimol-0.5.1.org/mk/common.mk fungimol-0.5.1/mk/common.mk
--- fungimol-0.5.1.org/mk/common.mk	Fri Mar  7 21:54:18 2003
+++ fungimol-0.5.1/mk/common.mk	Fri Mar  7 22:00:16 2003
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@
 PPMLIBPATH:=/usr/lib
 export PPMLIBPATH
 PPMLINKOPTS:=
-ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libppm.a),)
+ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libppm.so),)
    PPMLINKOPTS += -lppm
 else
-   ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libnetppm.a),)
+   ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libnetppm.so),)
       PPMLINKOPTS += -lnetppm
    else
       -include stopNOPPM
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@
 	 @exit 1
    endif
 endif
-ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libpgm.a),)
+ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libpgm.so),)
    PPMLINKOPTS += -lpgm
 else
-   ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libnetpgm.a),)
+   ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libnetpgm.so),)
       PPMLINKOPTS += -lnetpgm
    else
       -include stopNOPGM
@@ -94,10 +94,10 @@
 	 @exit 1
    endif
 endif
-ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libpbm.a),)
+ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libpbm.so),)
    PPMLINKOPTS += -lpbm
 else
-   ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libnetpbm.a),)
+   ifneq ($(wildcard $(PPMLIBPATH)/libnetpbm.so),)
       PPMLINKOPTS += -lnetpbm
    else
       -include stopNOPBM
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 # Dynamic linking is better for debugging because the link ought to be faster.
 # Except it's broken right now with the new gcc.
 ifdef NDEBUG
-   LINKOPTS += -Xlinker -Bstatic
+   LINKOPTS += -Xlinker 
 endif
 LINKOPTS += -lXext -lX11 -lm $(PPMLINKOPTS)
 ifdef NDEBUG