Darrell,
Looking at your koffice.SlackBuild, I'm stumbling on your !SVN flag
triggering application of all the patches. Are you applying all the patches under:
if [ "$KDE_RELEASE_VERSION" = "3.5.13" ] && [ "$SVN"
!= "true" ]; then
to the current GIT code??
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.