In native builds, qemu can fail to find zlib development files in the native sysroot and the build machine might not have zlib-dev packages installed. Add CFLAGS to qemu's CFLAGS which in the native case means BUILD_CFLAGS are added and files in the sysroot can be found. Patch from Paul Eggleton, Comments by RP 28/11/10 Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific] Index: qemu-1.2.0/configure =================================================================== --- qemu-1.2.0.orig/configure 2012-09-05 07:03:06.000000000 -0700 +++ qemu-1.2.0/configure 2012-09-06 13:55:07.007793823 -0700 @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_INCLUDES="-I. -I\$(SRC_PATH) -I\$(SRC_PATH)/fpu" +QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS $CFLAGS" if test "$debug_info" = "yes"; then CFLAGS="-g $CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-g $LDFLAGS"