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From: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] CROSS_NASM dependency in gst-libav
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 12:23:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABDcavY6Csba4FiJeYijP2DmzXTH9T-W9ykLQ-gRHfn0=iUUoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180201111637.2hqitf46heqdqgtx@pengutronix.de>


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Hi Michael,

2018-02-01 12:16 GMT+01:00 Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:14:11PM +0100, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > I see that gst-libav.in selects CROSS_NASM.
> >
> > Question: Is this a generic requirement? The documentation at [1] has a
> > section on "Unix-like platforms" and only mentions nasm for x86/AMD
> > hardware OS X. Am I correct in understanding that nasm is NOT required to
> > build for embedded Linux targets ?
>
> It's needed for any x86 hardware (both 32 and 64 bit). It has nothing to do
> with OS X.
>

I see. From the documentation (
https://libav.org/documentation/platform.html#Unix_002dlike) I was under
the impression that GNU assembler was used on most Unix-like platforms.


> It's currently not possible to specify this dependency only for x86 and
> compared to gst-libav the cross-nasm packages is very small, so I never
> bothered to create some workaround for this.
>

OK, thank you for the information, this is helpful.

Best regards,

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
guille.rodriguez@gmail.com

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-31 16:14 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
2018-02-01 11:16 ` Michael Olbrich
2018-02-01 11:23   ` Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia [this message]
2018-02-02 16:20     ` Michael Olbrich

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