> That *is* strange.  Why in the world is it trying to
> build in the
> /dev/shm/libcarddav-0.6.2 folder??

Probably because of the way I build packages.

In my system I have $TMP defined to tmpfs at /dev/shm.

Generally, the Slackware way to build packages is to untar the sources to a temporary working location. Although your svn sources are not compressed, I continue to use the same practice by copying the source tree to a temporary location.

tqtinterface and libcaldav compile fine. As do other packages from svn using this practice. Just libcarddav is resisting.