[MPlayer-dev-eng] Yasm needs to be checked

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 06:24:52PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Diego Biurrun ha scritto:
> >On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:30:48PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> >>yasm 0.6.0 can't be used to compile mplayer: at least the compilation of
> >>the H264 decoder in ffmpeg fails.
> >>Version 1.1.0 works fine. What's the oldest version that is known to
> >>work fine?
> >0.8.0 works for me, I'm not sure about 0.7.0.
> >
> >It should not be hard to come up with a suitable configure check,
> >but why are you using such an old version anyway?  What distro
> >are you on and why don't you compile a fresh yasm version?
> >
> >Diego
> 
> I'm using opensuse 11.3. I don't know if in 11.4 yasm was updated,
> for sure I had to grab their
> binary in the "factory" repository.
> I didn't have any particular reason not to compile it, I just wanted
> to understand what was broken.

There is already a configure check, it is the one that sets HAVE_AVX.
It's just that yet an new bunch of code has been added and that failed
to actually use it.
I didn't notice anymore this time since even Debian stable nasm now seems to
support AVX...
Carl has a patch ready.