See rules in common admin module:
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/admin/commit/?id=a7f75ac0ff http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/admin/commit/?id=b9fb6ca397
From what I can see, the admin module directory should exist in the top level of the tarball source file. The admin module should contain both files regardless of building with cmake or automake.
In my case, the tqt3 source tarball I downloaded does not contain an admin module directory, which could explain the build failure and the related message thread.
I downloaded the tarballs from here:
https://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/releases/R14.1.2/R14.1.2-compl....
I just checked again and there is no admin module directory, configure.in.min, or acinclude.m4.in.
Am I missing the big picture configuring tqt3 or is the admin module directory missing in the upstream tarball? I'd like to straighten this out before making more noise. :)
Thanks.