>--enable-tde.  TDEDIR and friends are the appropriate environment
>variables to use.

I downloaded the LO sources and walked through the patch stored in 
'thirdparty'. As far as I can tell, the patch no longer is needed. 
Am I correct?

Seems all that is needed is --enable-tde and as a precaution, in 
the build script ensure $TDEDIR, $QTDIR, $QTINC, and $QTLIB are 
exported to the build environment. Am I correct?

There also is a --enable-tdeab option to ensure Trinity addressbook 
support, but I did not look into that deeply. The option might be 
enabled by default when --enable-tde is enabled.

For a reference point, how long does LO take to compile on your 
systems?

Darrell