Docker Build Device having Issues Scanning Project

Ubuntu 24.04
Yocto
qmake

When opening the project, we get the following error: ':-1: error: Project ERROR: libhal development package not found'. libhal is one of the libraries installed in the docker container that we wish to use while compiling the project.

Creator logs show a warning coming from qtc.docker.device stating that a process failed to start, specifically a call that appears to be using pkg-config to check if libhal exists on the Docker container. Both libhal.so and libhal.pc exist on the container and pkg-config is also installed on the container.  Launching the container directly and run the following command 'pkg-config --exists --print-errors libhal', pkg-config has no trouble finding the package.
Relevant part of the log:

/bin/sh -c 'type /bin/sh >/dev/null && echo __qtc$$qtc__ && exec /bin/sh -c '\\''pkg-config 2> /dev/null 2> /dev/null --exists libhal'\\'''. 

By running the command after removing the calls to redirect standard error and adding the "--print-errors" flag for pkg-config gives the following error: 'Must specify package names on the command line'.