Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> >>> Now that's debian.  What about other systems, like cygwin?  Or 
>> >>> AncientBSD?
>> >>
>> >> Cygwin comes with nasm 2.08 (of course you can compile yasm there).
>> >
>> > You can compile yasm anywhere.  I thought this whole exercise was about
>> > supporting what comes with the systems whenever possible.
>> 
>> OK, so let's make a list.
>> 
>> System                  nasm            yasm
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> Cygwin                  2.08.02
>
> Cygwin does have yasm 1.0.1 in ports.  We even recommend installing
> yasm from the Cygwin ports repository in our documentation.  With
> the yasm version from ports installed, our code builds fine.

That may be, but those packages are not part of a normal installation.

If we break something and then document the broken behaviour, does that
mean we shouldn't fix it?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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