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

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 07 Jul 2009 10:28:40 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Need Info Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  David Powell
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Programmer hardware: 
Device type: 

Sun 04 Oct 2009 08:13:53 PM UTC, comment #2: 

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

Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch>
Group administrator
Wed 08 Jul 2009 05:21:54 AM UTC, 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.

Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch>
Group administrator
Tue 07 Jul 2009 10:28:40 PM UTC, original submission:  

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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