Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude on Windows

[Joerg Wunsch]

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As E. Weddington wrote:

> 1. Can GNU bison be used on all platforms and avrdude code written 
> for that?

Would be inconvenient for FreeBSD (bison is ported software, yacc is
already part of the system), but i guess fixing the file so it works
for bison could be done in a way where it doesn't break for [b]yacc.

ISTR that Ted already had a fix for this.

> Apparently when the built avrprog is executed it wants to find a 
> config file at /usr/local/avr/etc/avrprog.conf and it can't find it.
> 
> 2. Is this a fixed location that is looks for this config file?

It should be a configurable location.

> 3. If yes, can avrdude look in the current directory first?

Probably, but wouldn't it be more appropriate for Windows to have a
registry entry for it, and an installer that creates (and later
removes) that entry?  Just curious.  While it's almost always possible
to find out the current directory, it's sometimes impossible to find
the directory the program binary is located in (under Unix, there's
not even a guarantee that this directory still exists -- the program
binary could have been removed while the program is executing ;-),
something that is impossible on Windows).

If at all, lookup in the current directory should only happen if it's
running on Windows.  The Unix alternative (which is probably nice to
have) would be to search $HOME for a file named .avrprog.conf or
.avrprog.rc.
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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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