On 17.01.2017 23:45, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

2017-01-17 15:35, zbigniew.bodek@caviumnetworks.com:

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-# for now, we don't use as but nasm.
-# AS      = $(CROSS)as

It looks to be a very very old comment.

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+ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_X86),y)
 AS        = nasm

There is no asm file in DPDK as far as I know.
So why would we have a dependency on nasm for x86?

Yes, there is no such file now. We were to add assembly code but 
eventually we decided to put it in a separate library. Nevertheless this 
fix should be harmless if there is no ASM file and will behave correctly 
if someone will add ASM file in the future.

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+else
+AS        = $(CROSS)as
+endif