A little bit of research told me that the easiest way around that was to recompile the pine source on Fedora, taking the libcom absence into account. A post from Mike Harris pointed me to his repository (ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/pine) that includes his recompiled rpm of pine that works like a charm on Fedora.
So, just download Mike's rpm
(ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/pine/4.58-2/i386/pine-4.58-2.i386.rpm) and install that baby:
(as root, of course) cd /path/that/contains/pine rpm -ivh pine-4.58-2/i386.rpm
and that should do it.
Haven't tried this yet, but have a related question: If I do install Mike's rpm as given above, will it also give me back pico for use from the command line (i.e., outside of pine)?
thanks much,
--Anthony