While building phonon-kde-4.5.2, compilation fails at around 66% due to missing "globalconfig.h". Some research leads me to believe Qt as of 4.6 has phonon issues and KDE is better off with Qt's phonon support disabled in favor of phonon. I had media-sound/phonon-4.4_pre20090520 installed, but it doesn't appear to provide the header file. emerge -a phonon suggests this upgrade: media-sound/phonon-4.4.2 [4.4_pre20090520] This provides the necessary header file and build succeeds. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do not emerge qt-phonon 2.Have a previous version of phonon installed 3.Emerge kde-phonon-4.5.2 Actual Results: Build fails complaining of missing globalconfig.h. Expected Results: kde-phonon should build.
Fixed in 4.5.3 and later (raised dependency)