--- /dev/null
+From 14833e24dea49303ebc2464813601054b6cdfcac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
+Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 19:08:46 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: ignore long options
+
+When searching for options like -n in MAKEFLAGS, current code may result
+in a false positive match when make is invoked with long options like
+--no-print-directory. This has been observed with certain versions of
+host make (e.g. 3.82) while building the Qemu package in buildroot.
+
+Filter out such long options before searching for one-character options.
+
+Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
+Message-Id: <20210722020846.3678817-1-stilor@att.net>
+Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+---
+ Makefile | 8 +++++---
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 6c36330eef..401c623a65 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -129,9 +129,11 @@ endif
+ # 4. Rules to bridge to other makefiles
+
+ ifneq ($(NINJA),)
+-MAKE.n = $(findstring n,$(firstword $(MAKEFLAGS)))
+-MAKE.k = $(findstring k,$(firstword $(MAKEFLAGS)))
+-MAKE.q = $(findstring q,$(firstword $(MAKEFLAGS)))
++# Filter out long options to avoid flags like --no-print-directory which
++# may result in false positive match for MAKE.n
++MAKE.n = $(findstring n,$(firstword $(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))))
++MAKE.k = $(findstring k,$(firstword $(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))))
++MAKE.q = $(findstring q,$(firstword $(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))))
+ MAKE.nq = $(if $(word 2, $(MAKE.n) $(MAKE.q)),nq)
+ NINJAFLAGS = $(if $V,-v) $(if $(MAKE.n), -n) $(if $(MAKE.k), -k0) \
+ $(filter-out -j, $(lastword -j1 $(filter -l% -j%, $(MAKEFLAGS)))) \
+--
+2.27.0
+