ftbfs in intrepid (ruby bindings)

see the log below; please apply the attached patch if this is fixed.

 g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../smoke -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/share/qt3/include -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -c libqtrubyinternal_la.all_cpp.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libqtrubyinternal_la.all_cpp.o
In file included from libqtrubyinternal_la.all_cpp.cpp:2:
Qt.cpp: In function 'const char* get_VALUEtype(VALUE)':
Qt.cpp:953: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
Qt.cpp: In function 'VALUE method_missing(int, VALUE*, VALUE)':
Qt.cpp:1435: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
Qt.cpp:1485: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
Qt.cpp: In function 'VALUE class_method_missing(int, VALUE*, VALUE)':
Qt.cpp:1560: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
Qt.cpp: In function 'VALUE initialize_qt(int, VALUE*, VALUE)':
Qt.cpp:1677: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
Qt.cpp:1677: error: initializing argument 4 of 'QCString* find_cached_selector(int, VALUE*, VALUE, char*)'
Qt.cpp: In function 'VALUE getmetainfo(VALUE, int&, int&)':
Qt.cpp:1775: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
In file included from /usr/share/qt3/include/qdragobject.h:50,
                 from /usr/share/qt3/include/qiconview.h:51,
                 from handlers.cpp:15,
                 from libqtrubyinternal_la.all_cpp.cpp:3:
/usr/share/qt3/include/qimage.h: In member function 'bool QImageTextKeyLang::operator<(const QImageTextKeyLang&) const':
/usr/share/qt3/include/qimage.h:61: warning: suggest parentheses around && within ||
make[6]: *** [libqtrubyinternal_la.all_cpp.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/scratch/packages/tmp/java/kdebindings-3.5.9/qtruby/rubylib/qtruby'