I've spent 15min on it, made the following patch and then ran out of time when it hit another problem.
% cvs diff src/configure.in ..ino/hack/Pike/7.6 Index: src/configure.in =================================================================== RCS file: /pike/data/cvsroot/Pike/7.6/src/configure.in,v retrieving revision 1.857 diff -u -r1.857 configure.in --- src/configure.in 13 Jan 2006 16:28:27 -0000 1.857 +++ src/configure.in 17 Mar 2006 17:30:30 -0000 @@ -7414,6 +7414,11 @@ extra_configure_args="${extra_configure_args} --build=${cpu}-unknown-winnt`uname -r|sed -e 's/-/_/g'` --disable-assembler" fi
+ # Nettle doesn't support assembler on Darwin x86 yet. + if [ "`uname -m`" = "i386" -a "`uname -s`" = "Darwin" ]; then + extra_configure_args="${extra_configure_args} --disable-assembler" + fi + echo "${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} "$bundle_source_dir/configure"" \ "--prefix="$pike_bundle_prefix"" ${extra_configure_args} \ "--disable-shared --cache-file=config.cache"