X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,MANY_HDRS_LCASE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:06:11 +0200 From: Diego Biurrun To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: NASM package update Message-id: <20120807110611.GA8907@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20120806184846.GC32187@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> In-reply-to: <20120806184846.GC32187@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 08:48:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > The NASM package in Cygwin is getting a tad long in the tooth. There is > NASM 2.08.02 available, but 2.10.03 is current, i.e. NASM has done two > major releases in the meantime. The package for Cygwin was created > over two years ago. > > Newer NASM versions are required to assemble modern software, notably > libav. Now I'd like to know if anybody is working on updating the > NASM package in Cygwin or is planning to do it in the somewhat near > future. Who is the maintainer of the NASM package? Yaakov Selkowitz yesterday created a skeleton package of NASM for Cygwin ports: http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/nasm Is there a chance this might be used to replace the official package in Cygwin? best regards, Diego -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple