> I think I found the problem:
> 
>   It seems to be looking for kdewidgets.la which is in
> /opt/trinity/lib/trinity/plugins/designer/kdewidgets.la.
> I've tried:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/trinity --with-qt-dir=/opt/qt3
> --with-extra-libs=/opt/trinity/lib/trinity
> 
> still won't find it. Any ideas?

None of those configure options will help if kdewidgets.la was not built and installed by tdelibs. The files exist in my tdelibs pacakge. Here are my tdelibs build options (Slackware). I'll guess one of the graphic related options controls whether to build the designer plugins. Try rebuilding tdelibs and then check whether opt/trinity/lib/trinity/plugins/designer/kdewidgets.la exists.

cmake $SOURCES_ROOT \
  -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="$CPUOPT" \
  -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$CPUOPT $DEBUG_CMAKE_OPT" \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PREFIX} \
  -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=${SYSCONFDIR} \
  -DLIB_SUFFIX=${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  -DMAN_INSTALL_DIR=${MANDIR} \
  -DWITH_LIBART=ON \
  -DWITH_LIBIDN=ON \
  -DWITH_LUA=$LUA \
  -DWITH_TIFF=ON \
  -DWITH_JASPER=ON \
  -DWITH_OPENEXR=ON \
  -DWITH_UTEMPTER=ON \
  -DWITH_AVAHI=$DNSSD \
  -DWITH_ASPELL=ON \
  -DWITH_HSPELL=OFF \
  -DWITH_ARTS=ON \
  -DWITH_ALSA=ON \
  -DWITH_SSL=ON \
  -DWITH_CUPS=ON \
  -DWITH_INOTIFY=ON \
  -DWITH_PCRE=ON \
  -DWITH_ELFICON=OFF \
  -DWITH_GAMIN=ON \
  -DWITH_GCC_VISIBILITY=ON \
  -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=OFF || exit 1

Darrell