Here is a patch that updates QEMU to 5.2.0-rc4. The big change here is that the build system has changed to use Meson and Ninja "under the hood", although this release still uses `./configure && make` in a superficial way. With this patch, the qemu and qemu-minimal packages build and can boot Guix VMs created with the `guix system` commands. There are still two open tasks that require assistance: 1) The patch that makes Sphinx build an info manual will need to be adapted to the meson build system. Ideally, this would be submitted upstream. 2) The ./configure step is considered "stale" in the build phase and thus gets run twice. You can add "--trace" to #:make-flags to trace the Makefile and try to understand what's wrong (shown below). I'm no Make expert but, AFAICT, there are some PHONY targets that depend on the output of the configure step, config-host.mak, so it may be an upstream bug. But I might be misunderstanding it. I asked on the QEMU IRC but didn't get a useful answer. ------ starting phase `build' GNUmakefile:10: update target 'all' due to: force echo 'changing dir to build for make ""...' changing dir to build for make ""... make -C build -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-qemu-minimal-5.2.0-rc4.drv-0/qemu-5.2.0-rc4/build' Makefile:109: update target 'config-host.mak' due to: /tmp/guix-build-qemu-minimal-5.2.0-rc4.drv-0/qemu-5.2.0-rc4/pc-bios echo config-host.mak is out-of-date, running configure config-host.mak is out-of-date, running configure if test -f meson-private/coredata.dat; then \ ./config.status --skip-meson; \ else \ ./config.status && touch build.ninja.stamp; \ fi ------