/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt, make xconfig
 

I try to compile a new kenrel, but when i do "make xconfig"
i get:
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Fout 1
make: *** [xconfig] Fout 2

I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and qt-embedded-3.3.4

does someone know what to do?

You need Qt (not embeded) installed and the QTDIR environment variable set, ie QTDIR=/opt/qt



Or you can simply run 'make menuconfig' instead, which will give you an ncurses based config menu.


HTH

Mad.

thnx
But the other qt is qt x11 and mandrake 10.1 uses Xorg.
So when I tried to install qt I got:
kernel/qt_x11_p.h:66:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
kernel/qt_x11_p.h:71:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
kernel/qt_x11_p.h:72:21: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory
kernel/qt_x11_p.h:73:23: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qtaddons_x11.o] Fout 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/qt/src'
make[1]: *** [sub-src] Fout 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/qt'
make: *** [init] Fout 2

solved it, by installing al Xorg packages

hi tuxandme,

I had the same problem with Mandrake 10.1,
after much trawling the net for a while, discovered that qt has to be installed,
which it is and that a valid entry for the qtlib has to exist in the file
/etc/ld.so.conf
which it also did, in my case:
/usr/lib/qt3/lib
upon closer inspection of /usr/lib/qt3/lib I discovered:
libqt-mt.so linked to libqt-mt.so.3.2.3
libqt-mt.so.3 linked to libqt-mt.so.3.3.3
libqt-mt.so.3.3 linked to libqt-mt.so.3.3.3
libqt-mt.so.3.3.3 (the actual file)
took me a while to notice that libqt-mt.so was pointing to a non-existant file: libqt-mt.so.3.2.3

after making libqt-mt.so point to libqt-mt.so.3.3.3
make xconfig
worked perfectly
ciao ... erik

oops, just realised Mandrake 10.1 didn't ship with libqt3-devel ...
libqt3-devel was still hanging around from Mandrake 10.0,
which explains the broken link for libqt-mt.so