No apples, thanks :-) I had the same problem but on an cygwin/X86 platform, with the error message:
asm_blend.S: Assembler messages:
asm_blend.S:46: Warning: .type pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef ignored.
asm_blend.S:46: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `_'...