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> I decided to force non-concatenation with the -i switch.
>
> At least the -i switch is verbose and I could see things happening. That
> mode also was easier on the CPU.

You can build it that way without any problems.

>
> The package failed to build, but I knew right away. More than likely the
> concatenated version failed too and there was no message.
>
> SIP 4.11.1 and PyQT3 3.18.1 compiled fine.
>
> Log attached.
>
> According to the failure error, kinputidalog.h has an undeclared class
> QValidator. kinputidalog.h is installed from kdelibs.
>

OK, I have added a change to kdelibs in revision 1178028 to force
inclusion of the tqt.h header when pykde uses the kinputdialog.h file. 
You will need to rebuild/reinstall kdelibs, then try to rebuild pykde
again.

Tim