diff --git a/autoconf_share/lofar_qt.m4 b/autoconf_share/lofar_qt.m4
index b1bd00b5fd254795f6dd41f7333ce02cedfb8d8a..3dcaf4625ea89c64bd5c3c9d97e3c883fa92c202 100644
--- a/autoconf_share/lofar_qt.m4
+++ b/autoconf_share/lofar_qt.m4
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FILE([$qt_prefix/include/qt.h],
 
 	QT_CPPFLAGS="-I$QT_PATH/include"
 	QT_LDFLAGS="-L$QT_PATH/lib"
-	QT_LIBS="-lqt"
+	QT_LIBS="-lqt-mt"
 
 	CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $QT_CPPFLAGS"
 	LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $QT_LDFLAGS"
diff --git a/autoconf_share/variants.dop41 b/autoconf_share/variants.dop41
index fe82af7fd4433312f1ed467867122c786f2b4879..70b168b4408b1b9482e9422409f7bbf3607bc49f 100644
--- a/autoconf_share/variants.dop41
+++ b/autoconf_share/variants.dop41
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 gnu3.compiler.conf: CXX=//dop41_0/brentjens/usr/bin/g++ --with-cppflags="-Wno-deprecated"
-gnu3.compiler.aipspp.var: --with-blitz=/dop41_0/brentjens/usr/blitz/gnu3 --with-threads --with-qt=/dop41_0/brentjens/usr/
+gnu3.compiler.aipspp.var: --with-blitz=/usr/local --with-threads --with-qt=/usr/lib/qt3
 if
 debugnt.variant.conf:	  $(aipspp)