first off, FC3 seems more dysfunctional the FC1,2 or RH! Tons of stuff doesn't work right. But the main annoyance is the kernel config 'xconfig' now requires qt ... and I keep getting

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

my /etc/ld.so.conf
-------------------------------
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib64
/usr/lib/mysql
/usr/lib64/mysql
/usr/lib/qt
/usr/lib64/qt

I have all sorts of qt stuff installed from RPM

rpm -qa|grep -i qt
--------------------------------
qt-3.3.3-8
PyQt-3.13-1
qt-PostgreSQL-3.3.3-8
qt-devel-3.3.3-8
PyQt-devel-3.13-1
qt-ODBC-3.3.3-8
PyQt-examples-3.13-1
qt-3.3.3-8
qt-designer-3.3.3-8
qt-MySQL-3.3.3-8
qt-config-3.3.3-8


what do I have to do ? anyone else have this problem (and solved it)?

Yes xconfig uses qt, so you need qt and qt-devel. I don't know why it's not listed as being available though coz it listed as being installed. Maybe Fedora's version of qt has a problem coz I have never experienced this problem on Mandrake and Slackware.

I took a peek at the files matching 'qt' with locate qt | less. lqt is short for libquicktime.

Here are the files I found:
home/jschiwal/Documents/manual-pages.dvi/lqtplay.dvi
/usr/bin/lqt-config
/usr/bin/lqtplay
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_audiocodec.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_audiocodec.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_audiocodec.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_dv.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_dv.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_dv.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ferguson.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ferguson.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ferguson.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_mjpeg.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_mjpeg.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_mjpeg.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_png.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_png.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_png.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_rtjpeg.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_rtjpeg.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_rtjpeg.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_videocodec.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_videocodec.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_videocodec.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_vorbis.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_vorbis.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_vorbis.so
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_xanim.a
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_xanim.la
/usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_xanim.so
/usr/share/man/man1/lqtplay.1.gz

I'm having the same problem doing a make xconfig on 64 bit fedora 3

i looked in the /usr/lib/qt* directory and there are lots of libqt-mt files which are multi-threaded versions of the library. i tried making links to those and naming them libqt instead of libqt-mt and it still doesn't work.

any ideas?

I never did manage to get it to work, and ultimately settled with 'make gconfig' . BTW, 'qconfig' worked perfectly on Ubuntu/Debian, so that's what I am running now.