On Monday 10 October 2011 13:45:24 Werner Joss wrote:
> I'm out of ideas, here, sorry.
> wild guess: wrong permissions ?
>
> werner

Waking up from a little siesta (yes...), that's what I thought too...
No: directories and files belong to "user user", and the PATCH did create the 
files:
user@machin:/...../bin/QT/qt-x11-free-3.3.8b$ ls -l q*.*.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user    0 2011-10-10 11:52 qglobal.h.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  221 2011-10-10 11:52 qglobal.h.rej
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user    0 2011-10-10 11:52 qobject.cpp.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  712 2011-10-10 11:52 qobject.cpp.rej
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user    0 2011-10-10 11:52 qobject.h.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  543 2011-10-10 11:52 qobject.h.rej
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1540 2011-10-09 22:55 qt3_3.3.8c.diff

I tryed openning the diff file with Konqueror: looks OK too!

Bizarre: I decided to try as root: I open another terminal (konsole kdesu), 
cd..., patch... Of course, patch did not work, and the six files created are 
owned by "root" and are -rw-r-r-. Continuing to prepare this e-mail, I 
thought that I should remove these files "root" that might embarrass me later 
if I forgot. But I selected the wrong console and typed the "rm" commands in 
the console using  user's rights... the files were deleted after confirmation 
(write protected)! A feature of SELinux?

I dont know if I'll ever succeed in compile and run TDE on my machine, but the 
prospect of using a system with SELinux me anxious. Even if it is possible to 
disable... A deactivated bomb is still a bomb.

Good luck to everyone,
Patrick

NB: I wil put the following post, if any, in the devel list.