[kde-solaris] what have i done wrong?

[Chris McCraw]

so, i spent the last 2 weeks building kde-3.3.2 and all of its
dependencies with gcc on solaris.  unfortunately, it thoroughly
fails to work--i get a ton of crashes, segfaults, and just plain
dysfunction.  starting up a kde session (via startx), kdeinit kind
of works, in that my x session doesn't fall back to a console
prompt, but kde doesn't start--tons of debugging output fly by
including notification of lots of crashes.  running "konsole"
from a non-kde session segfaults.  and so forth.  so before i
start pestering you with pages of debug output and backtraces,
i thought i'd do a sanity check on my environment in case there
are some gotchas i should be aware of.

solaris 9 / sparc (all ultras of varying ages--makes no
big difference which machine i run on, the one that compiled or
another slower one), fairly well-patched.

gcc-3.4.3 using gnu bintuils 2.13.2.1 (as/ld)

built in a self-contained tree with all needed prerequisite libraries:

arts-1.3.2/
atk-1.9.0/
audiofile-0.2.6/
esound-0.2.35/
expat-1.95.8/
fontconfig-2.2.98/
freetype-2.1.9/
glib-1.2.10/
glib-2.6.1/
gtk+-1.2.10/
gtk+-2.6.1/
imlib-1.9.15/
jpeg-6b/
kdebase-3.3.2/
kdelibs-3.3.2/
libart_lgpl-2.3.16/
libpng-1.0.18-config/
libpng-1.2.8-config/
libxml2-2.6.16/
libxslt-1.1.12/
pango-1.8.0/
pcre-5.0/
pkgconfig-0.15.0/
qt-x11-free-3.3.3/
render-0.8/
tiff-3.7.1/
xcursor-1.0.2/
xft-2.1.2/
xrender-0.8.3/
zlib-1.2.2/

the only libraries outside of its tree that it is using are things like
libX11, libGL and friends from /usr/openwin/lib and libc/libm and friends
from /lib.

so do you see anything there that should create such catastrophic failure?

strangely it worked ever so slightly much better when i had my linker
misconfigured to pick up other libraries that are built (invariably old
to ancient versions) in /usr/local/lib.  it still wouldn't really run a
functional session but the splash screen worked and i could get through
initial desktop setup before kwin decided not to run.

thanks in advance for any advice you might have!