Qt Libraries -- ./configure not finding them

[Evan Malahy <ervan@offpipe.com>]

Hi all,

I am trying to compile a couple of KDE apps not included in the Debian 
collection, and I am running into some trouble.  I download and untar/gunzip 
the source and then run configure:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt \
     --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib

and lo and behold, it errors out with the following message:

checking for:  Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (libraries) not 
found. Please check your installation! 
  For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

I think I have the libraries that I need installed:

$ dpkg -l '*qt*' | grep ii
ii  libqt-dev      2.3.1-10       Qt GUI development headers, static libraries
ii  libqt2         2.3.1-10       Qt GUI Library (runtime version).

This is happening with all the KDE apps  I've tried (kdevmon and kdao 
specifically, but others as well).

I would appreciate some suggestions.  I've tried both "apt-get install 
--reinstall" for the libqt packages as well as removing them and reinstalling 
them (not fun, since it takes all the KDE packages with it).

Thanks,
Evan Malahy

PS - Here's the offending section of the config.log:

configure:5266: checking for Qt
configure: 5328: /usr/include/qt/qstyle.h
taking that
configure:5427: rm -rf SunWS_cache; c++ -o conftest -O2 -fno-exceptions 
-fno-check-new -I/usr/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include   -L/usr/lib 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib  conftest.C  -lqt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg  -lXext -lX11 -lSM 
-lICE  1>&5
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o: In function `main':
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0x67): undefined reference to 
`QIconView::QIconView(QWidget*, char const*, unsigned)'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0x71): undefined reference to 
`QIconView::setWordWrapIconText(bool)'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0x76): undefined reference to `QString::shared_null'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0x9b): undefined reference to `QString::setLatin1(char 
const*, int)'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0xb0): undefined reference to `QString::shared_null'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0xbb): undefined reference to 
`QStringData::deleteSelf()'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0xcd): undefined reference to `QIconView::~QIconView()'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0xe2): undefined reference to `QString::shared_null'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.text+0xf1): undefined reference to 
`QString::makeSharedNull()'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o: In function `QValueListNode<QString>::QValueListNode()':
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN14QValueListNodeI7QStringEC1Ev+0x8): 
undefined reference to `QString::shared_null'
/tmp/ccR7Is9E.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN14QValueListNodeI7QStringEC1Ev+0x21): 
undefined
reference to `QString::makeSharedNull()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <qglobal.h>
#include <qapplication.h>
#include <qevent.h>
#include <qstring.h>
#include <qstyle.h>
#include <qiconview.h>
#if ! (QT_VERSION >= 222)
#error 1
#endif
 
int main() {
    QStringList *t = new QStringList();
    QIconView iv(0);
    iv.setWordWrapIconText(false);
    QString s;
    s.setLatin1("Elvis is alive", 14);
    int magnolia = QEvent::Speech; /* new in 2.2 beta2 */
    return 0;
}