[MPlayer-users] yasm configure check looks for nasm

[Helle Vaanzinn]

Using --yasm=yasm in configure also works.

On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:35:44 +0100
Erik Auerswald <auerswal at unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>just an observation, since others might trip over this as well:
>
>I have recently attempted to update and build MPlayer on a system where
>it worked last November.  It did not work, i.e., configure reported
>that it did not find yasm.  But yasm was available.  What was missing
>was nasm.
>
>The output of ./configure --help does show the check looks for nasm,
>but the error message only mentioned yasm:
>
>    $ ./configure
>    [...]
>    Checking for yasm ... 
>    Error: yasm not found, use --yasm='' if you really want to compile
> without [...]
>    $ which yasm
>    /usr/bin/yasm
>    $ ./configure --help | grep -i yasm
>      --yasm=YASM            Yasm assembler to build MPlayer [nasm]
>
>Installing nasm solved the problem.
>
>Cheers,
>Erik