Could not run Qt test program

While trying to configure Avifile, I get the following warning and errors:

configure: warning:
*** Could not run Qt test program, checking why...
*** Configure discovered/uses these settings:
*** Qt libraries: /usr/lib/qt3//lib
*** Qt headers: /usr/lib/qt3//include
*** Note:
***    Compilation of Qt utilities also might be turned off (if not wanted).
***    If you are experiencing problems which will not be described
***    bellow please report then on '[email protected]' mailing list
***    (i.e. some misdetection or omitted path)

configure: error:
*** Qt test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding Qt library or finding the wrong
*** version of Qt. If it is not finding Qt, you will need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system.
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
***
*** i.e. bash> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt3//lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
[root@localhost avifile-0.7-0.7.38]#

What do I do?  I am fairly new to linux.