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.

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.