[bug #26976] AVRDUDE fails with strange message if parallel port not available

[Simon Goldschmidt]

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                 Summary: AVRDUDE fails with strange message if parallel port
not available
                 Project: AVR Downloader/UploaDEr
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 07 Jul 2009 10:28:40 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: David Powell
        Originator Email: david@...
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I compiled AVRDUDE for an NSLU2 running SLUGOS/BE, and it compiled fine.
However, it reported that the parallel port is not available on this device,
which is a true statement. No problem there, because I wasn't planning to use
the parallel port to download code, just the serial port (stk500v1).

When I tried to download a hex file to my device (ATMEL 368) from the NSLU2,
it reported a strange error message and aborted. I'm sorry, but I didn't write
down the error message and now that it's working, I don't want to take a
chance on breaking it. All I know is that the message had nothing to do with
parallel ports.  I modified ac_cfg.h to trick it into thinking I had a
parallel port and recompiled, and now it works great.  This is a fantastic
tool!




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[Simon Goldschmidt]

Update of bug #26976 (project avrdude):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Well, there's not much help without telling us the exact
error message.

Was it:

avrdude: parallel port access not available in this configuration
avrdude: error at avrdude.conf:564: programmer type not specified

?

If so, this would indicate your avrdude.conf doesn't match
the program configuration: if configure didn't find a parallel
port on the machine, it excludes the parallel port configuration
from avrdude.conf.  If you then try running avrdude against a
config file that still mentions parallel port programmers, you'll
get the above message.  Unfortunately, avrdude.conf is not
generated by typing `make' but only by configure.

If it was something different, please give us an error message,
otherwise I can only close the report due to not being able
to reproduce it.

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[Simon Goldschmidt]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #26976 (project avrdude):

Unless I get a response to my questions by 2009-10-31, I have
to close this bug report for being unreproducible / unresolvable.

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