#if John Corey
> With the IDL files, sometimes it works to move the resulting .h
> reference in the Makefile.am to the front of the _SOURCES list.  It
> worked with just -j2 and kdelibs.  But when I got to kdebase, that
> wasn't good enough and it would still break the compile.  I haven't
> committed it, as I'm not sure it really fixes it properly, and I want to
> figure out kdebase first.

Then there probably needs to be a dependency put in, like:

file.cc : file.h

file.h : file.idl
	$(IDL) $(IDL_FLAGS) file.idl

.. unless that's there already, of course.

Cheers,
Rik