From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:26:42 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] fix - do not build blobs when blobs are not needed
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Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Don't like ugly assembler errors because QEMU tries to build some x86
> assembly code which isn't needed on non-x86.

 .PHONY: kvm/extboot
 
+ifdef INSTALL_BLOBS
 all: kvm/extboot
 
 kvm/extboot:
@@ -427,3 +428,4 @@
            || ! cmp -s pc-bios/extboot.bin $@/extboot.bin; then \
 		cp $@/extboot.bin pc-bios/extboot.bin; \
 	fi
+endif
Index: qemu-kvm/configure
=================================--- qemu-kvm.orig/configure
+++ qemu-kvm/configure
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@
      cpu_emulation="no"
      gdbstub="no"
      slirp="no"
+     blobs="no"
 fi
 if [ "$cpu" = "powerpc" ]; then
      kvm="yes"


Seems a bit heavy handed.  blobs != extboot.

How about instead:

    build-targets-x86 = kvm/extboot

    all: $(build-targets-$(ARCH))

(or something similar that builds)

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function