Mike Perks wrote:
Brian,
I sometimes like to use AVRDude as an alternative to AVRProg. However I
have found the following problems continue to exist in even the AVRDude
5.0 Beta. This is frank input that I hope will spur you to improve AVRDude.
1. I tried building my own version from source and found the makefile
schema impenetrable. I understand why some of the complexity is there
but unless you have the environment setup correctly, it doesn't work. In
the end I fudged the makefile and did build a Windows version with GCC.
I am a software engineer so I'm not a newbieat this type of thing.
I assume you were looking at configure.ac/in and automake.am ?
The Makefile is machine generated and is not supposed to be looked
at by the usual developers. That said, you *can* understand the actions
of these files after learning autoconf/automake, and are very useful
for debugging.
...
Few people are going to bother testing AVRDude 5.0 if there is no
Windows version and no documentation on exactly what it does.
Few *windoze* users will test a non-windoze version. If you want
the latest and greatest things built on non-windoze systems, then
you have to be using or be familiar with the same non-windoze systems.
Windoze is just an appliance for dispensing commercial software to
end-users that happens to work for *some* free software. It doesn't
have a decent infrastructure for free unix-like software development.
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