Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add libvpx

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> That said, when cross-compiling, there should in theory a cross-yasm
>> available.  That’s presumably not the case, so either way it’s not
>> cross-compilable, so no worries.
>
> I hadn't thought about cross-compiling.  The libvpx readme says that
> cross-compilation is possible:
> http://www.webmproject.org/docs/vp8-sdk/readme.html
>
> The configure script accepts a --target flag, so we could add it to
> the configure phase.  There's no mention that yasm needs to be built a
> certain way.  What do you think?

It doesn’t hurt to put Yasm as a native input.  If it turns out that it
takes more than this to cross-compile, then we can fix things later.

So OK with Yasm as a native input.

Thanks for looking into that!

Ludo’.