Following up to my own email. Apparently the reason I get this error is that I am building with "--disable-tools --disable-system". I don't need the tools and I don't have pixman on my build system so if I don't use "--disable-tools --disable-system" I get an error about not having pixman installed.
When I do use "--disable-tools --disable-system" on the configure line I get: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../qom/object.o', needed by `qemu-mips'. Stop. make: *** [subdir-mips-linux-user] Error 2 Error: Make command failed, stopping build. It was pointed out to me that 'configure --help' does not list the --disable-tools option as a supported option but inside the configure script I see this code, so it seems --disable-tools is supposed to be supported. if test "$pixman" = "none"; then if test "$want_tools" != "no" -o "$softmmu" != "no"; then error_exit "pixman disabled but system emulation or tools build" \ "enabled. You can turn off pixman only if you also" \ "disable all system emulation targets and the tools" \ "build with '--disable-tools --disable-system'." fi Steve Ellcey sell...@imgtec.com