Compiling qt-copy inside a VMWare virtual machine is to slow
1h 21m 49s
compared to compiling it directly on my Gentoo box:
38m 18s
So I decided to switch from the VM directly to my Gentoo box with a kde-devel user. I used in both cases
./kdesvn-build qt-copy
as described in the document “Getting Started/Build/kdesvn-build” with a clean kde-src directory.