KDE3 compile partial failure

[edj]

I tried installing KDE3 from source using checkinstall.  After much ado 
with libraries missing or outdated, much fussing with qt3 and a lot of 
trial and error, things seemed to be going smoothly, until . . . 

kdebase crapped out with:
FontEngine.cpp:55: freetype/ftsnames.h: no such file or directory.

ftsnames.h is in /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/ftsnames.h .  I 
added that to PATH and tried again, but no go.  When qt3 compile stopped 
by not finding qname, I added its location to PATH, and qt3 went smoothly. 
 But here, nothing.

kdeartwork failed with:
make [3]: ***No rule to make target `/opt/kde3/lib/kwinla'  needed by 
`kwin-openlook.la.closure' Stop.

kdeaddons failed with missing files, all kate/ :
plugin.h, application.h, docmanager.h,mainwindow.h and viewmanager.h

On WS 3.1.  Any advice appreciated.  Thanks.

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