I would like to know how hard it would be to add a new qt package to the portage system that is built statically? At present it would only require adding a new package, named qt-static, which installed the static libraries and adding a one word change to the ebuild files. The configure script for the qt library by default builds a shared library but adding '-static' to the command line gives only static libraries. The configure script is not setup to do both. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: Built '.a' libraries so users can built static QT applications.
You're welcome to create a local ebuild for this in your overlay directory, but we're not going to support two separate versions. Sorry.