--- /usr/portage/eclass/qt4.eclass	2006-08-16 12:35:50.000000000 +0000
+++ qt4.eclass	2006-09-23 23:29:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 
 inherit versionator
 
+IUSE="${IUSE} debug"
+
 QTPKG="x11-libs/qt-"
 QT4MAJORVERSIONS="4.1 4.0"
 QT4VERSIONS="4.1.4 4.1.3 4.1.2 4.1.1 4.1.0 4.0.1 4.0.0"
@@ -50,3 +52,58 @@
 
 	echo "${VERSIONS}"
 }
+
+eqmake() {
+	local projprofile=""
+	if [ -z $1 ]; then
+		projprofile="${PN}.pro"
+	else
+		projprofile="${1}"
+	fi;
+
+	einfo "Processing qmake ${projprofile}"
+
+	# file exists?
+	if [[ ! -f ${projprofile} ]]; then
+		echo
+		eerror "Project pro file \"${projprofile}\" does not exists"
+		eerror "qmake cannot handle the non-existing pro files"
+		echo
+		eerror "This shouldn't happen - send a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org"
+		echo
+		die "non existing pro file in ${PN} sources"
+	fi;
+
+	# some standard config options
+	local configoptplus="CONFIG += no_fixpath"
+	local configoptminus="CONFIG -="
+	if use debug; then
+		configoptplus="${configoptplus} debug"
+		configoptminus="${configoptminus} release"
+	else
+		configoptplus="${configoptplus} release"
+		configoptminus="${configoptminus} debug"
+	fi;
+
+	# any special qmake options should be passed as a second eqmake parameter
+	/usr/bin/qmake ${projprofile} \
+		QMAKE=/usr/bin/qmake \
+		QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE="${CFLAGS}" \
+		QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE="${CXXFLAGS}" \
+		"${configoptminus}" \
+		"${configoptplus}" \
+		QMAKE_RPATH= \
+		${2}
+
+	# successfull qmake?
+	if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+		echo
+		eerror "Running qmake on \"${projprofile}\" has failed"
+		echo
+		eerror "This shouldn't happen - send a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org"
+		echo
+		die "qmake has failed on ${projprofile}"
+	fi;
+
+	eend 0
+}