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-1.4.0/configure =================================================================== --- qemu-1.4.0.orig/configure 2013-02-15 15:05:35.000000000 -0800 +++ qemu-1.4.0/configure 2013-02-25 13:44:17.915273181 -0800 @@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_INCLUDES="-I. -I\$(SRC_PATH) -I\$(SRC_PATH)/include" +QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS $CFLAGS" if test "$debug_info" = "yes"; then CFLAGS="-g $CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-g $LDFLAGS"