I've sorted this out now.. CPAN seems to place 3 libraries, libsmokeq.so, so.1 and so.1.2.1 into its /build/PerlQt-3.008/smoke/qt/.libs directory. These are 6 mb in size and are in fact just 1 lib, with soft links. The libsmoke rpm lacks .so and is only 4.9 mb. I copied all three into /usr/lib/qt3/lib and it completed the install. I have no idea what the problem was, go figure. So... ignore the stuff below. Thanks Tachyon for responding, I can't find anything about KDE bindings in my Mandrake rpm list... does it effect something similar to what I did manually ? Do I need the KDEBindings for Perl-Qt development ? I really only want to install stuff if I know why. It all adds to my education !

Venerable sirs, this humble acolyte is being driven mad by this problem trying to install Perl-Qt from CPAN :-

LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib/qt3//lib:/usr/local/kde/lib" g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib Qt.o handlers.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/kde/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/qt3//lib -o blib/arch/auto/Qt/Qt.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/qt3//lib -lsmokeqt -lcrypt -lqt-mt -ldl -lresolv -lpng -lz -lm -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsmokeqt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm using ActiveState Perl5.8.4, Mandrake Linux 10, Gnome. I'm a newbie to Linux & the C compiler, my previous Perl experience was with Win32, so I also need a little help understanding these messages.
The smoke libs are in fact installed in /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib/qt3/lib but it seems to ignore them. ??? I thought it is supposed to build its own if they aren't there anyway. ????
thanks for your patience reading this far... I want to get starting building some kickass GUIs !

In reply to Solved : cannot find -lsmokeqt compiling Perl-Qt by rbutcher

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