diff --git a/dev-libs/qcodeedit/files/qcodeedit-2.2.3-fix-parallel-build.patch b/dev-libs/qcodeedit/files/qcodeedit-2.2.3-fix-parallel-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4c1a5feb02fe7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/qcodeedit/files/qcodeedit-2.2.3-fix-parallel-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Add missing edges to dependency graph in order to
+allow for parallel building.
+
+--- qcodeedit-2.2.3/qcodeedit.pro
++++ qcodeedit-2.2.3/qcodeedit.pro
+@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
+ 
+ SUBDIRS += lib example designer-plugin
+ 
++example.depends = lib
++designer-plugin.depends = lib
++
+ CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
+ 	# placeholder
+ 	QCODE_EDIT_EXTRA_DEFINES += _DEBUG_BUILD_
diff --git a/dev-libs/qcodeedit/qcodeedit-2.2.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/qcodeedit/qcodeedit-2.2.3-r2.ebuild
similarity index 76%
rename from dev-libs/qcodeedit/qcodeedit-2.2.3-r1.ebuild
rename to dev-libs/qcodeedit/qcodeedit-2.2.3-r2.ebuild
index 111e54710de59..402461b4e8ed6 100644
--- a/dev-libs/qcodeedit/qcodeedit-2.2.3-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/qcodeedit/qcodeedit-2.2.3-r2.ebuild
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
-EAPI=5
+EAPI=6
 
-inherit qt4-r2
+inherit qmake-utils
 
 DESCRIPTION="Qt-Framework for code editing"
 HOMEPAGE="http://edyuk.sourceforge.net/"
@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ RDEPEND="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 "
 
-MAKEOPTS+=" -j1"
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-fix-parallel-build.patch"
+)
+
+src_configure() {
+	eqmake4 ${PN}.pro
+}
 
 src_install() {
-	qt4-r2_src_install
+	emake INSTALL_ROOT="${D}" install
 	dolib.so libqcodeedit.so*
 }