I've moved on to kdenetwork.  The same build instructions for kdeadmin 
seem to work, but the build of kopete fails with:

linux/videodev.h no such file or directory

I can find the .h file on an older version of linux, but kernel version 
3.0.4 only has videodev2.h.  It looks like it is included from two files:

kopete/libkopete/avdevice/videodevice.h
kopete/plugins/motionautoaway/motionawayplugin.cpp

Changing the include in these files to videodev2.h does not work (and I 
would have been suprised if it did).

Does anyone know how to work around this issue?  Excluding kopete will 
complete the build, but that certainly isn't optimal.

   -- Bruce