graphic: 0.808 device: 0.768 permissions: 0.723 performance: 0.689 kernel: 0.686 files: 0.652 network: 0.643 socket: 0.635 peripherals: 0.582 mistranslation: 0.541 architecture: 0.519 assembly: 0.488 PID: 0.478 ppc: 0.456 arm: 0.454 hypervisor: 0.452 x86: 0.442 boot: 0.423 i386: 0.394 semantic: 0.381 register: 0.371 vnc: 0.358 debug: 0.314 risc-v: 0.297 KVM: 0.278 VMM: 0.275 user-level: 0.255 TCG: 0.236 virtual: 0.225 qemu 5.2.0 configure script explodes when in read only directory I extracted the qemu 5.2.0 source as one user, and then tried to run `./configure --help` in that directory as a different user. Normal autoconf configure scripts have no problem with this but yours goes into an infinite loop printing nonsense: Using './build' as the directory for build output mkdir: build: Permission denied touch: build/auto-created-by-configure: No such file or directory ./configure: line 37: GNUmakefile: Permission denied ./configure: line 59: cd: build: No such file or directory Using './build' as the directory for build output mkdir: build: Permission denied touch: build/auto-created-by-configure: No such file or directory /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 37: GNUmakefile: Permission denied /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 59: cd: build: No such file or directory Using './build' as the directory for build output mkdir: build: Permission denied touch: build/auto-created-by-configure: No such file or directory /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 37: GNUmakefile: Permission denied /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 59: cd: build: No such file or directory Using './build' as the directory for build output mkdir: build: Permission denied touch: build/auto-created-by-configure: No such file or directory /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 37: GNUmakefile: Permission denied /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 59: cd: build: No such file or directory Using './build' as the directory for build output mkdir: build: Permission denied touch: build/auto-created-by-configure: No such file or directory /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 37: GNUmakefile: Permission denied /path/to/qemu-5.2.0/configure: line 59: cd: build: No such file or directory Using './build' as the directory for build output mkdir: build: Permission denied etc. This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now. Please continue with the discussion here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/321