On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:09:39PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:18:10PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 04:54:18PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> > > Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
> >> > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 04:21:01PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> > > >> Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
> >> > > >> > This avoids nasm 2.08 being detected as a compatible Assembler.
> >> > > >> > ---
> >> > > >> > Probably at least the log message needs finetuning.  That said, 
> >> > > >> > this works
> >> > > >> > for me and avoids nasm being detected as a working Assembler and 
> >> > > >> > later
> >> > > >> > failing with
> >> > > >> > --- a/configure
> >> > > >> > +++ b/configure
> >> > > >> > @@ -2815,7 +2815,7 @@ EOF
> >> > > >> >              elf*) enabled debug && append YASMFLAGS $yasm_debug 
> >> > > >> > ;;
> >> > > >> >          esac
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > -        check_yasm "pextrd [eax], xmm0, 1" && enable yasm ||
> >> > > >> > +        check_yasm "CPU amdnop" && enable yasm ||
> >> > > >> >              die "yasm not found, use --disable-yasm for a 
> >> > > >> > crippled build"
> >> > > >> >          check_yasm "vextractf128 xmm0, ymm0, 0" || disable avx
> >> > > >> 
> >> > > >> Is that directive the only one causing trouble?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > No, there are a few others, like certain AVX instructions, that also
> >> > > > cause trouble,
> >> > > 
> >> > > Aren't those disabled by the next test?
> >> > 
> >> > Quite possibly that is the intention, but if I read our asm files
> >> > correctly, then not all appearances of AVX instructions are "ifdeffed".
> >> > Given my lack of familiarity with yasm syntax, I might well be wrong.
> >> 
> >> Justin's patch that I just pushed fixes that issue, but the following
> >> remains:
> >> 
> >> libavcodec/x86/h264_idct.asm:613: error: (call_internal:3) `%ifdef'
> >> expects macro identifiers
> >> 
> >> A few dozen identical ones with different line numbers follow.
> >> Can somebody shine a light on this one?
> >> 
> >> The original error message that my patch addresses is
> >> 
> >> x86inc.asm:100: error: unknown 'cpu' type
> >
> > .. ping ..
> >
> > The problem persists and none of the people able to fix this have shown
> > interest in fixing nasm support.
> >
> > My patch is enough to detect failing nasm versions in practice, so I'd
> > like to push it.  configure should error out when we know that compilation
> > will fail.
> 
> Is this the only thing it fails on?

No, there is another issue that i cannot quite put my finger on, which
causes errors of the type:

  error: (call_internal:3) `%ifdef' expects macro identifiers

while the CPU directive causes errors of the type:

  x86inc.asm:100: error: unknown 'cpu' type

Diego
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