The following reply was made to PR pkg/33084; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
To: pancake <pancake@phreaker.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33084: emulators/snes9x build for non-x86 and non-bsd systems
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:37:33 -0800

 I understand that nasm is not required on powerpc, but that is not what
 I asked about.
 
 I just built nasm on NetBSD/sparc64 and assembled one of my programs
 with it.  So it looks like nasm can be used on non-intel hardware.
 
 Does your test build fail?
 Does it fail in snes9x or nasm?
 
 Thank you,
 
 Ben
 
 
 On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:40:29PM +0100, pancake wrote:
 > amd64 is intel, so nasm works.
 > 
 > But i test the build on powerpc, nasm can't be used there. and is not required.
 > 
 > 
 > --pancake
 > 
 > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:57:08PM -0800, Ben Collver wrote:
 > > I built snes9x on amd64, with the nasm dependency.
 > > 
 > > Where does the build fail for you?  Could you should the relevant
 > > portion of the build output?
 > > 
 > > Thank you,
 > > 
 > > Ben