Guys, Don't give this a lot of time (3.5.12 backport of sftp fix). I have kdebase successfully configuring, but I get an early error building kate. The build can't find kdebase/kate/app/.libs/libkdeinit_kate.so The build is correct, it's not there. The .la and .lai files are there, but not the .so. The .so is already on the system as /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_kate.so. I don't know if the build fail is caused by the .lai saying it is already installed or the .la saying it isn't, or if this is just some gcc47 hiccup that we just are not going to get past. It seems I've been hit by this issue before, but I cannot recall for the life of me what the fix was. There is no question that the build finds the existing lib, but then somehow isn't doing something right. The error is: libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "kwrite.la" && ln -s "../kwrite.la" "kwrite.la" ) /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -fpermissive -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -D_GNU_SOURCE -o kate -R /opt/kde3/lib -R /opt/kde3/lib -R /opt/qt/lib -R /opt/kde3/lib -no-undefined -L/opt/kde3/lib -L/opt/qt/lib -L/opt/kde3/lib kate.la.o libkdeinit_kate.la libtool: link: LD_RUN_PATH="/opt/kde3/lib:/opt/qt/lib:" g++ -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -fpermissive -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -D_GNU_SOURCE -o .libs/kate kate.la.o -L/opt/kde3/lib -L/opt/qt/lib ./.libs/libkdeinit_kate.so -L/usr/lib /home/david/tde/kdemod3/bld/kdebase/src/kdebase/kate/app/.libs/libkateinterfaces.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkatepartinterfaces.so /opt/kde3/lib/libktexteditor.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkabc.so /opt/kde3/lib/libvcard.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkresources.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkparts.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkutils.so /home/david/tde/kdemod3/bld/kdebase/src/kdebase/kate/utils/.libs/libkateutils.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkio.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkdesu.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkwalletclient.so /usr/lib/libfam.so -lacl -lattr /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so -lart_lgpl_2 -lidn /opt/kde3/lib/libkdefx.so -lXrender -ldl /opt/kde3/lib/libDCOP.so /opt/qt/lib/libtqt.so -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lXext -lSM -lICE -lpthread -lX11 g++: error: ./.libs/libkdeinit_kate.so: No such file or directory g++: error: /home/david/tde/kdemod3/bld/kdebase/src/kdebase/kate/app/.libs/libkateinterfaces.so: No such file or directory g++: error: /home/david/tde/kdemod3/bld/kdebase/src/kdebase/kate/utils/.libs/libkateutils.so: No such file or directory The .libs dir has the following: -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 936 May 2 13:14 kate_dummy.o lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 10 May 2 14:13 kate.la -> ../kate.la -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1560 May 2 14:13 kate.lai -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 51964 May 2 14:13 katemain.o -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 940 May 2 13:15 kwrite_dummy.o lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 12 May 2 14:13 kwrite.la -> ../kwrite.la -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1512 May 2 14:13 kwrite.lai -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 99804 May 2 13:15 kwritemain.o lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 23 May 2 14:13 libkateinterfaces.la -> ../libkateinterfaces.la -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1216780 May 2 14:13 libkateinterfaces_la.all_cpp.o -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1574 May 2 14:13 libkateinterfaces.lai lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 26 May 2 14:13 libkateinterfaces.so -> libkateinterfaces.so.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 26 May 2 14:13 libkateinterfaces.so.0 -> libkateinterfaces.so.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 21 May 2 14:13 libkdeinit_kate.la -> ../libkdeinit_kate.la -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1587 May 2 14:13 libkdeinit_kate.lai lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 23 May 2 14:13 libkdeinit_kwrite.la -> ../libkdeinit_kwrite.la -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1537 May 2 14:13 libkdeinit_kwrite.lai If anyone has a quick fix, I'd be glad to try it, if not, I'll just put this on the back burner for now... IIRC this might take a makefile sed or patch..