By dint of not having a life I decided on a fresh build of the 1.2 cvsup tree,
with qt-1.44. kdesupport and kdelibs built without incident. kdebase quits
with:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ruptured-duck/kde_src_1.2/kdebase/kwmcom'
Making all in kwmmodules
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/ruptured-duck/kde_src_1.2/kdebase/kwmmodules'
Making all in kbgndwm
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/ruptured-duck/kde_src_1.2/kdebase/kwmmodules/kbgndwm'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/kde/include
-I/usr/local/qt/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include    -O2 -Wall -c main.cpp
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/kde/include
-I/usr/local/qt/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include    -O2 -Wall -c kbgndwm.cpp
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/kde/include
-I/usr/local/qt/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include    -O2 -Wall -c bg.cpp
bg.cpp: In method `void KBackground::apply()':
bg.cpp:439: `pmDesktop' undeclared (first use this function)
bg.cpp:439: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bg.cpp:439: for each function it appears in.)
bg.cpp: In method `void KBackground::timerEvent(class QTimerEvent *)':
bg.cpp:727: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
make[3]: *** [bg.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/ruptured-duck/kde_src_1.2/kdebase/kwmmodules/kbgndwm'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/ruptured-duck/kde_src_1.2/kdebase/kwmmodules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ruptured-duck/kde_src_1.2/kdebase'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

I have grepped around the usual suspects and don't see hide nor hare of
'pmDesktop' in an include. Needless to add any light shed on this turn of
events would be mightily appreciated! (This is a Linux glibc - Debian 2.1 -
system.)


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