[Interest] Building Qt for debugging - libwebcore.a File format not recognized

[Carl Schumann]

Qt Community,

My system admin built Qt 4.8.0 without any options to ./configure.   
This resulted in a working Qt build but that build did not have debug 
information when I stepped into Qt code.   So we built again with 
./configure -no-webkit -debug.  (The -no-webkit was added because with 
just -debug we got build errors in webkit.)

This resulted in the following error when Makefile.WebKit.QtWebKit tried 
to build libQtWebKit.so.4.9.0:
> ../../WebCore/debug/libwebcore.a: could not read symbols: File format 
> not recognized

libwebcore.a appears to be a valid archive file, but the rules for 
libQtWebKit.so.4.9.0 appear to want a valid ELF file, i.e., *.so 
file.    However, the Makefile.WebKit does not build a libwebcore.so.   
My system admin and me are struggling with what to do about this build 
problem.   Any insights please?  Thanks for any help.

Sincerely,
Carl Schumann