Adding CONSOLE to an application causes link to fail

To reproduce:
Build against Qt 4.5.1 (windows prebuilt binary version)

Choose any example project and add CONFIG += console to the .pro file
run qmake and nmake

The build will fail at the linking stage with the following (or something similar):-

NMAKE: fatal error U1077
link.exe return code 0x450
nmake return code 0x2

Now try the same using prebuilt 4.5.0 Windows version of Qt - the build will be successful