Changing standard message file...

[nobody]

NASM has, for a long time, reported 'nasm -v' status on stdout.  It has been changed in 2.06rc2 to stderr.  This has broken a few of my makefiles that have been working for years.  

Yes, it was a simple, and more reliable patch to add 2>&1 to $(if $(shell nasm -v 2>&1),do_nasm_things,), but probabl not something that should have been modified, just because... while yes, standard out could be useful to have clean for other purposes...

Just noting you cost me 2 cents.

[Jim]

Okay that should not have been anonymous.  

Please! fix that nasm -v output goes to stderr now.  It used to go to stdout, and is a great place to have it.

[Jim]

I dunno... maybe i can find some other null command to tell if nasm is there that goes to stdout... if I capture stderr, then I get shell error messages that satisfy a makefile statment

$(if $(shell nasm -v),have_nasm,no_nasm)

[Jim]

yeah - that's a huge input block, oh well.