qt4 doesn't provide different libraries for threading. --- configure.in.orig 2010-01-12 16:40:06.935594142 +0100 +++ configure.in 2010-01-12 16:40:37.742311509 +0100 @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ AC_MSG_WARN(cannot find moc. QT parts disabled.) HAVE_QT=no fi - if test X"$HAVE_THREADS" = Xyes; then + if false && test X"$HAVE_THREADS" = Xyes; then AC_CHECK_LIB(qt-mt, open, qt_mt=yes, qt_mt=no) if test X"$qt_mt" = Xno; then AC_MSG_WARN(cannot find multi-threaded version of QT library. QT parts disabled.) --- configure.orig 2010-01-12 16:40:11.555621774 +0100 +++ configure 2010-01-12 16:40:51.125633810 +0100 @@ -4197,7 +4197,7 @@ echo "configure: warning: cannot find moc. QT parts disabled." 1>&2 HAVE_QT=no fi - if test X"$HAVE_THREADS" = Xyes; then + if false && test X"$HAVE_THREADS" = Xyes; then echo $ac_n "checking for open in -lqt-mt""... $ac_c" 1>&6 echo "configure:4189: checking for open in -lqt-mt" >&5 ac_lib_var=`echo qt-mt'_'open | sed 'y%./+-%__p_%'`