And you get Qt not installed saying it can't find qt-mt but you know it is installed. You read the find docs and it tells you to define HAVE_QT_3_2_INSTALLED and (see "configuration") and there is no thing like configuration in the entire package.

Go to the file gar.conf.mk and uncomment the variable name. You will find a line
#HAVE_QT_3_2_INSTALLED=true
Change that to
HAVE_QT_3_2_INSTALLED=true
Simply remove the leading # from the line.

Konstruct is the one you want as it is a set up for the most popular applications. Simply by doing to the right directory and typing "make" it will compile the latest version. There are also directories for groups of applications like Koffice and even one for everything.