This is but a continuation of the story began in Trial and error and followed up in SNAFU. After hitting some snags in compiling KDE source with my homebrew apple-gcc42 from macports; I stumbled, by way of the internets, unto a much easier way to get a version of apple's gcc 4.2 installed: the iPhone SDK. It's @ beta5 so far, seemingly not ready for widespread unleashing to the world. I suspect that's largely due to the iPhone SDK part of the package than it is for the compiler portion. To grab it head on over to http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action . You have to sign up for the ADC program or else wait for the SDK to be final. Anyhoo I've got qt 4.4.0 compiling now. Had to fix a few errors again, but google saves.