diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 9da128c506..7a72ba7396 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -248,6 +248,66 @@ linkerSupportsFlag()
     compilerSupportsFlag "$lflags" >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
+# $1: newline-separated list of default paths
+# stdin: input path
+# stdout: input path or nothing
+filterDefaultPaths()
+{
+    local path
+    path=`cat`
+    echo "$1" | grep "^$path\$" > /dev/null || echo "$path"
+}
+
+filterIncludePath()
+{
+    filterDefaultPaths "$DEFAULT_INCDIRS"
+}
+
+filterLibraryPath()
+{
+    filterDefaultPaths "$DEFAULT_LIBDIRS"
+}
+
+filterPathOptionsHelper()
+{
+    local flag defpaths sep p path
+    flag=$1; shift
+    defpaths=$1; shift
+    sep=
+    for p in "$@"; do
+        path=${p#$flag}
+        if [ "x$path" != "x$p" ]; then
+            path=`echo "$path" | filterDefaultPaths "$defpaths"`
+            test -z "$path" && continue
+        fi
+        # Re-quote for shell & qmake
+        p=`echo "$p" | sed 's,[^ ]* .*,"&",g'`
+        printf "%s%s" "$sep" "$p"
+        sep=" "
+    done
+    echo
+}
+
+# $1: flag
+# $2: newline-separated list of default paths
+# stdin: list of command line options
+# sdout: stdin without the options naming default paths
+filterPathOptions()
+{
+    # The eval does escape interpretation for us
+    eval filterPathOptionsHelper $1 "\"$2\"" "`cat`"
+}
+
+filterIncludeOptions()
+{
+    filterPathOptions -I "$DEFAULT_INCDIRS"
+}
+
+filterLibraryOptions()
+{
+    filterPathOptions -L "$DEFAULT_LIBDIRS"
+}
+
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # device options
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -4046,9 +4106,9 @@ for _SQLDR in $CFG_SQL_AVAILABLE; do
             if [ "$CFG_SQL_mysql" != "no" ]; then
 		[ -z "$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG" ] && CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG=`"$WHICH" mysql_config`
                 if [ -x "$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG" ]; then
-                    QT_CFLAGS_MYSQL=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --include 2>/dev/null`
-                    QT_LFLAGS_MYSQL_R=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --libs_r 2>/dev/null`
-                    QT_LFLAGS_MYSQL=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --libs 2>/dev/null`
+                    QT_CFLAGS_MYSQL=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --include 2>/dev/null | filterIncludeOptions`
+                    QT_LFLAGS_MYSQL_R=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --libs_r 2>/dev/null | filterLibraryOptions`
+                    QT_LFLAGS_MYSQL=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --libs 2>/dev/null | filterLibraryOptions`
 		    QT_MYSQL_VERSION=`$CFG_MYSQL_CONFIG --version 2>/dev/null`
                     QT_MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR=`echo $QT_MYSQL_VERSION | cut -d . -f 1`
                 fi
@@ -4097,8 +4157,8 @@ for _SQLDR in $CFG_SQL_AVAILABLE; do
             if [ "$CFG_SQL_psql" != "no" ]; then
                 # Be careful not to use native pg_config when cross building.
                 if [ "$XPLATFORM_MINGW" != "yes" ] && "$WHICH" pg_config >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-                    QT_CFLAGS_PSQL=`pg_config --includedir 2>/dev/null`
-                    QT_LFLAGS_PSQL=`pg_config --libdir 2>/dev/null`
+                    QT_CFLAGS_PSQL=`pg_config --includedir 2>/dev/null | filterIncludePath`
+                    QT_LFLAGS_PSQL=`pg_config --libdir 2>/dev/null | filterLibraryPath`
                 fi
                 [ -z "$QT_CFLAGS_PSQL" ] || QT_CFLAGS_PSQL="-I$QT_CFLAGS_PSQL"
                 [ -z "$QT_LFLAGS_PSQL" ] || QT_LFLAGS_PSQL="-L$QT_LFLAGS_PSQL"