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