Installing qt on Mavericks from recipe: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/21608#issuecomment-27360951

gistfile1.sh

⁙ brew install https://raw.github.com/cliffrowley/homebrew/patched_qt/Library/Formula/qt.rb --HEAD
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==> Cloning git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/qt--git
==> Checking out branch 4.8
==> Patching
patching file src/plugins/bearer/corewlan/qcorewlanengine.mm
patching file src/plugins/bearer/corewlan/qcorewlanengine_10_6.mm
patching file src/3rdparty/webkit/Source/WebKit/qt/QtWebKit.pro
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
Hunk #1 succeeded at 248 with fuzz 1.
==> /usr/local/bin/wget http://trac.webkit.org/export/157771/trunk/WebKitLibraries/libWebKitSystemInterfaceMavericks.a -O src/3rdparty/webkit/WebKitLibraries/libWebKitSystemInterfac
==> ./configure -prefix /usr/local/Cellar/qt/HEAD -system-zlib -confirm-license -opensource -nomake demos -nomake examples -cocoa -fast -release -system-libtiff -no-3dnow -platform
==> make
cc -c -pipe -O2 -arch x86_64 -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall -W -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_PHONON_LIB -DQT_OPENGL_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_HAVE_SSE -DQT_HAVE_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SSE2 -DQT_HAVE_SSE3 -DQT_HAVE_SSSE3 -DQT_HAVE_SSE4_1 -DQT_HAVE_SSE4_2 -DQT_HAVE_AVX -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_SHARED -I../../../../mkspecs/unsupported/macx-clang -I. -I../../../../lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I../../../../include/QtCore -I../../../../lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I../../../../include/QtGui -I../../../../lib/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I../../../../include/QtOpenGL -I../../../../lib/phonon.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I../../../../include/phonon -I../../../../include -I. -I../../../../include/phonon_compat -I/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Headers -I/System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Headers -I.moc/release-shared -F/private/tmp/qt-Rop4/lib ../../../3rdparty/phonon/qt7/videowidget.mm -o .obj/release-shared/videowidget.o
rm -f libphonon_qt7.dylib
clang++ -headerpad_max_install_names -arch x86_64 -single_module -dynamiclib -Xarch_x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -o libphonon_qt7.dylib .obj/release-shared/quicktimevideoplayer.o .obj/release-shared/backendheader.o .obj/release-shared/medianodevideopart.o .obj/release-shared/medianodeevent.o .obj/release-shared/audiooutput.o .obj/release-shared/backendinfo.o .obj/release-shared/audiosplitter.o .obj/release-shared/audioeffects.o .obj/release-shared/quicktimestreamreader.o .obj/release-shared/medianode.o .obj/release-shared/backend.o .obj/release-shared/mediaobject.o .obj/release-shared/mediaobjectaudionode.o .obj/release-shared/audiomixer.o .obj/release-shared/quicktimeaudioplayer.o .obj/release-shared/videoframe.o .obj/release-shared/quicktimemetadata.o .obj/release-shared/audiodevice.o .obj/release-shared/audioconnection.o .obj/release-shared/audiograph.o .obj/release-shared/audionode.o .obj/release-shared/videowidget.o  -F/private/tmp/qt-Rop4/lib -L/private/tmp/qt-Rop4/lib -framework AppKit -framework AudioUnit -framework AudioToolbox -framework CoreAudio -framework QuartzCore -framework QTKit -framework phonon -L/private/tmp/qt-Rop4/lib -F/private/tmp/qt-Rop4/lib -framework QtGui -framework QtCore -framework QtOpenGL -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -Xarch_i386 -framework -Xarch_i386 QuickTime -Xarch_ppc -framework -Xarch_ppc QuickTime
mv -f libphonon_qt7.dylib ../../../../plugins/phonon_backend/
make: *** [sub-plugins-make_default-ordered] Error 2

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These open issues may also help:
    https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/22283
    https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/23480