Unneeded yasm dependency on non-x86 platform

[rossbridger]

When building mpir on non-x86 platform (e.g. sparc), the build script is still trying to locate the yasm binary, which leads to the following error:
Looking for a system-wide yasm... which: no yasm in (/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/ebuild-helpers/xattr:/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/ebuild-helpers:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sparc-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/7.3.0:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin) configure: error: no system-wide yasm found
For platforms that don't need yasm, the build script shouldn't force yasm as its mandatory dependency. This has been a downstream bug.

[ishandutta2007]

I am on windows 10. I am getting the same . Can someone tell whats the quick workaround ?

[ishandutta2007]

If I comment out this entire block ie

# # If the user provided its Yasm, check it seems functional
# MPIR_AS=""
# if test -z "$with_yasm"; then
#   echo "Looking for a system-wide yasm..."
#   MPIR_AS=`which yasm`
#   if test $? -ne 0; then
#     as_fn_error $? "no system-wide yasm found" "$LINENO" 5
#   fi
# else
#   MPIR_AS="$with_yasm"
# fi
# echo "Checking yasm..."
# if ! test -f "$MPIR_AS" || ! test -x "$MPIR_AS"; then
#   as_fn_error $? "$MPIR_AS does not seem functional" "$LINENO" 5
# fi

.\configure completes without any issue but make gives following error:
(I am not sure if it's related)

../strip_fPIC.sh: line 31: exec: -I: invalid option
exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [argument ...]] [redirection ...]
make[2]: *** [Makefile:730: divexact_1.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/hp/Documents/Projects/mpir-3.0.0/mpn'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:942: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/hp/Documents/Projects/mpir-3.0.0'
make: *** [Makefile:744: all] Error 2