This is a strange one. I just compiled and installed 4/29 snapshot of qemu (all files in /usr/local).
Before compilation:
$ which sdl-config
/usr/local/bin/sdl-config
$ ./configure
$ make
#make install
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/qemu
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.s0.0 (0xb7e84000)
..
$ /usr/local/bin/qemu -cdrom ./image.iso -boot d -m 128 -localtime
Could not initialize SDL - exiting
The above procdure used to work before on this Linux box :-(
-ishwar
