Traces of Martin’s State

Problem:
I’ve tried to compile several packages that requires Qt 3 or higher and got quite annoyed every time the configure scripts started complaining

checking for Qt... configure: error:
Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (headers and libraries) not found.
Please check your installation!

even though I have installed qt-devel.

Reason:
In Fedora Core 4 the Qt libraries are found in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/ whilst most of the configure scripts will search for them in - let me quote the libopensync script (from the opensync project):

if test $kde_qtver = 3; then
  kde_qt_dirs="$QTDIR /usr/lib/qt3 /usr/lib/qt /usr/share/qt3"
fi

Solution:
As root type:

# ln -s /usr/lib/qt-3.3/ /usr/lib/qt3

or look into the ./configure --help file and set the proper --with-qt-dir= option variable. And, as I mentioned, don’t forget to install the qt-devel package:

# yum install qt-devel

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