[MPlayer-users] yasm configure check looks for nasm

[Wilfredo jorlen]

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:27 AM Erik Auerswald <auerswal at unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 08:21:28PM -0000, Helle Vaanzinn wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:35:44 +0100
> > Erik Auerswald <auerswal at unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > Using --yasm=yasm in configure also works.
>
> It [seems][1] as if nasm is currently preferred over yasm.  It might
> even be [necessary][2] to use nasm instead of yasm for some features.
>
> [1]:
> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2023-November/074128.html
> [2]:
> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2023-November/074124.html
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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