QWT install Debian and qwt-6.1.2 fails

[MrPorcine]

I'm running Debian Jessie and qtcreater 3.2.1 with qt 5.3.2, all installed with the debian package manager. The path to qmake is correct for 3.2.1. I've downloaded qwt 6.1.2. Installation goes well with qmake and make until make trips up on designer with the following messages:

...
cd designer/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /home/jeh/qwt-6.1.2/designer/designer.pro -o Makefile ) && make -f Makefile
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: designer
Makefile:170: recipe for target 'sub-designer-make_first-ordered' failed
make: *** [sub-designer-make_first-ordered] Error 3

Can anyone shed any light on this? qtcreator works as I have used it to make executables.

I added the path to the QT plugin directory but it did not help. It sounded like this path problem only shows up in qtcreator after installation of qwt, but I tried anyway:
jeh@Mini:~/qwt-6.1.2/designer$ echo $QT_PLUGIN_PATH
/usr/local/qwt-6.1.2/plugins:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins


OK, here's some more detail. This is definately over my head :-(
I noticed that LSB is mentioned, so I made sure that I have the complete lsb package installed. No change.

After setting the -d flag for make, here's the section of of the Makefile that fails:

cd designer/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /home/jeh/qwt-6.1.2/designer/designer.pro -o Makefile ) && make -f Makefile
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: designer
Makefile:170: recipe for target 'sub-designer-make_first-ordered' failed
make: *** [sub-designer-make_first-ordered] Error 3

And here is the debug output from make for the interesting section:

DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:122: lib := Qt5Core
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:123: LINKAGE := -lQt5Core
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:125: evaluating test function "contains"
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:125: calling built-in contains(QT_CONFIG, rpath)
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:125: test function returned false
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:125: taking else branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:125: finished else branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: evaluating test function "contains"
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: calling built-in contains(MODULE_CONFIG, staticlib)
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: test function returned false
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: taking else branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: finished else branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: leaving block, okey=true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:130: finished then branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:136: LIBS := -L/home/jeh/qwt-6.1.2/../lib -lqwt -lQt5Gui -lQt5Core
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:137: evaluating test function "export"
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:137: calling built-in export(LIBS)
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:137: test function returned true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: NOT
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: evaluating test function "isEmpty"
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: calling built-in isEmpty(QMAKE_LSB)
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: test function returned true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: taking else branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: finished else branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: leaving block, okey=true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: finished then branch
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:139: leaving block, okey=true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:170: test function returned true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:170: leaving block, okey=true
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:170: done looping
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: NOT
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: evaluating test function "isEmpty"
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: calling built-in isEmpty(BAD_QT)
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: test function returned false
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: AND
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: evaluating test function "error"
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: calling built-in $$replace(BAD_QT, _private$, -private)
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: calling built-in error("Unknown module(s) in QT: designer")
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: designer
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt_functions.prf:172: aborting block, function status: error
DEBUG 1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qt.prf:63: aborting block, function status: error


And I think this is the section of qt_functions.prf where make finds the error:

# qt variable, libs variable
defineTest(qtAddModules) {
# qmake variables cannot contain dashes, so normalize the names first
$$1 = $$replace($$1, -private$, _private)
# Topological resolution of modules based on their QT.<module>.depends variable
$$1 = $$resolve_depends($$1, "QT.")
# Finally actually add the modules
unset(BAD_QT)
for(QTLIB, $$1) {
QTLIBNAME = $$eval(QT.$${QTLIB}.name)
isEmpty(QTLIBNAME) {
BAD_QT += $$QTLIB
next()
}

target_qt:isEqual(TARGET, $$QTLIBNAME) {
warning("$$TARGET cannot have a $$1 of $$QTLIB")
next()
}

qtAddModule($$QTLIB, $$2) <<<<<<------line 170
}
!isEmpty(BAD_QT):error("Unknown module(s) in $$1: $$replace(BAD_QT, _private$, -private)")
}