On 26 July 2015 at 17:02, Vido <1478...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Public bug reported: > > ./configure --static
> c++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-R’ > make: *** [tests/qemu-iotests/socket_scm_helper] Error 1 This is a bug in Ubuntu's gnutls package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls26/+bug/1478035 You can work around it by adding "--disable-gnutls" to your configure arguments, or by applying this patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/499821/ I would expect that patch to be applied for QEMU 2.4. thanks -- PMM