>   Aside from the obvious (no tde-config), what is being
> checked for that causes
> this type of initial build failure. I am seeing it in
> several applications
> (abakus, amarok, etc..). This is with the 3.5.13-sru branch
> files. Obviously
> tde-config is present as tdelibs, tdebase, etc.. have built
> without issue. So
> anybody familiar with some check that will need to be
> adjusted to fix these?
> I'll dig into them, but if you have and idea -- let me know

kde-config was renamed to tde-config after 3.5.13:

http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/log/tdecore/tde-config.cpp.in

The solution then is the configure/make files should be looking for kde-config, unless slavek backported the name change to 3.5.13.1.

Darrell