[haiku-development] Re: Added nasm target to Jam

David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have added a nasm target to jam that allows the APE reader sources 
> to build.
> 
> I have not added APE_reader to the Jamfile that includes all the
> codecs since nasm is not really in our build tools so it should not
> break the build.
> 
> I might be able to use it for the asm files in avcodec as well (they
> compile but cavsdsp_mmx.c not so much)
> 
> If this is not the way to handle asm files then let me know.

I think having nasm (or yasm) as an additional build tool requirement 
is pretty much unavoidable for many good things nowadays. Of course, it 
would still be nice if we had a $(NASM_ONLY) guard that would lift the 
requirement and make it an option with a warning during configure.

Bye,
   Axel.

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