If you do a static build of QEMU which includes trying to build the helper tools, linking of qemu-io, qemu-img, etc produces among other things this warning:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a(rpc_common.o): warning: definition of `_null_auth' overriding common /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libnfs.a(libnfs_la-libnfs-zdr.o): warning: common is here I *think* this is harmless, though it's kind of hard to tell. It does increase my desire to drop support for static building of anything except the linux-user binaries, though... thanks -- PMM