The QEMU build fails on my system for some time and I have finally found the error being an unsupported option used: $ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/14/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld --no-error-rwx-segments /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/14/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--no-error-rwx-segments' This was introduced by the custom patch file that enables such option for the optionrom part: qemu-7.2.16-optionrom-pass-Wl-no-error-rwx-segments.patch The solution for me was to ESELECT a newer binutils - it was 2.41 previously (which had no rwx option) and switching to 2.42, 2.43 or 2.44 did solve the QEMU build issue. (during updates when I see newer gcc I do switch to it, but was not really aware of switching to newer binutils). Would it be possible to enforce a dependency or pre-check on a specific binutils version, as it seems like to be a hard dependency now on a variant, which has that rwx option. Since the binutils is dynamically switchable - the check could be only at compile/ NOTE: This affect very likely all qemu versions, as they all seem to pull in the mentioned custom patch file in their ebuilds.
We generally assume people are using a fairly recent stable version binutils/gcc.
