Help with compiling v1.8.3-1.8.5

[Kevin King]

I successfully compiled version 1.8.2 of gnucash on my Slackware 9.0
box.  However, when trying to compile the more recent versions, I run
into trouble.

Here is the first sign of trouble.  When running ./configure, I get this
output toward the end:
mv: cannot stat `po/POTFILES': No such file or directory

./config.status: line 1046: po/POTFILES.tmp: No such file or directory

Other than that ./configure seems happy.

The second sign of trouble is when I run 'make'.  It works for a while
and then:
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -Werror -o .libs/test-link test-link.o
../.libs/libgncmod-calculation.so -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/libguile.so /usr/lib/libltdl.so -ldl -lpthread
/usr/lib/libglib.so /usr/lib/libpopt.so -lm -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/usr/local/gnucash/v1.8.5/lib/gnucash

/usr/lib/libguile.so: undefined reference to `qt_abort'

/usr/lib/libguile.so: undefined reference to `qt_error'

/usr/lib/libguile.so: undefined reference to `qt_block'

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[4]: *** [test-link] Error 1

make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/kevin/system/src/source/gnucash-1.8.5/src/calculation/test'

make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/kevin/system/src/source/gnucash-1.8.5/src/calculation'

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/kevin/system/src/source/gnucash-1.8.5/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kevin/system/src/source/gnucash-1.8.5'

make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

Any help is much appreciated.

Kevin