Mesa cannot be built with Cygnus GNUpro tools if you build with x86
assembly enabled. The assembly files in src/X86 appear to have been
written for nasm instead of as, and the Cygnus GNUpro assembler cannot
process them since the files are not AT&T syntax.

Since very few people are using nasm as compared to as, it would be good
to at least re-write the m4 scripts to allow the user to choose which
assembler syntax is to be used (i.e., NASM or GNU/AT&T). 

I'm using the GNUpro tools because they generate faster, more compact
binaries than the gcc etc., from the net do. Unfortunately, I can't
build Mesa with any of the x86 optimizations until the assembly files
use the correct syntax.

-- 
Jeff Galyan
http://www.anamorphic.com
http://www.sun.com
jeffrey dot galyan at sun dot com
talisman at anamorphic dot com
Sun Certified Java(TM) Programmer
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