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I was afraid someone would ask that... -- but seriously, thanks for asking. The last 35 lines of output from the "perl Makefile.PL" step (following ~190 lines of "checking ..." reports) look like this:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating PerlQt/Makefile.PL
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lsmokeqt
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lqt-mt
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lpng
Writing Makefile for Qt
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating puic/Makefile
config.status: creating smoke/qt/qtguess.pl
Checking how Qt was built... 
Threshold is set to 14
Number of defines to be tested : 6/122

Found 29 predefined symbols in qglobal.h
Found 13 undefined symbols in qglobal.h
Trying to compile and link a small program...             
FAILED : check your configuration.
Failed program was:

                #include <qapplication.h>
                int main( int argc, char **argv )
                {
                        QApplication foo( argc, argv );
                        return 0;
                }

Compiled with:
g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpoi
+nter-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -O2 -fno-exceptions -
+fno-check-new -fno-common -I/ldc/include -I/pkg/lib/qt-3.3.8/include 
+-I/pkg/lib/xorg-7.2/include  -L/pkg/lib/xorg-7.2/lib -L${exec_prefix}
+/lib  -o ./29980-qtguess ./29980-qtguess.cpp -lqt-mt -ldl   -lresolv 
+-lpng -lz -lm  -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11  -lSM -lICE -lpthread
Compiler output:
cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wmissing-prototypes" is valid 
+for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
/pkg/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

config.status: creating smoke/qt/generate.pl
config.status: error: cannot find input file: smoke/qt/generate.pl.in
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So near the top I see "Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lqt-mt", and then near the bottom I see "/pkg/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt" followed by "ld returned 1 exit status". So I guess the "probably harmless" comment is a bit off the mark?

The very last line ("cannot find input file") seems like a red herring, because I checked, and smoke/qt/generate.pl.in is there (having been modified as described in the OP update).

For that matter, the qt-3.8.8 path I'm using (via "--with-qt-dir=...") happens to have a "lib" directory that contains (among other things):

libqt-mt.la
libqt-mt.prl
libqt-mt.so
libqt-mt.so.3
libqt-mt.so.3.3
libqt-mt.so.3.3.8
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So, I'm sure it's just my own lack of experience with complicated library packages like Qt, but... Why is there a problem? (Let alone, what exactly is the problem?) Beats me.

And wouldn't you know, this is the same result I got before I modified all the perl files in the distro, so in fact, it seems that (so far) the perl path issue is not the current cause of installation problem.

In reply to Re^2: Module Installation Puzzle: using a non-default perl by graff
in thread Module Installation Puzzle: using a non-default perl by graff

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