[avrdude-dev] Re: avrdude 4.2.0 Release

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Brian Dean wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:37:26AM -0600, E. Weddington wrote:
>
> > This morning's CVS + Ted's patch, builds on Cygwin and I get a valid
> > make distcheck. If this is the only change left, I'm good for a
> > release. FYI, I won't be able to any test builds over the weekend.
>
> I just did a cvs update from the repo and, starting from a clean check
> out did the bootstrap, configure, make distcheck, etc, and all worked
> as expected and seems to have built a working binary.  So, I think I'm
> good to go on FreeBSD.
>
> Ted, if you can get a chance to verify that the Linux build is ready I
> think that we are good for laying down the 4.2.0 tag.  Would you mind
> doing the honors - you've done them all so far :-) Once that's there,
> we should be able to each roll our own installs for Windows, Linux,
> and FreeBSD respectively.

Looks good on Debian. I'm gonna hold off on the tag until I can verify
the discheck+'rpmbuild -ta' on my RedHat-9/7.3 boxes tonight.

After the tag, I'll roll the tarball + rpms and upload.

>
> Also, just FYI, I've recently obtained an Apple eMac running MacOS X.
> I have it on my list to port AVRDUDE to that platform.  Folks using
> serial programmers should be able to make use of AVRDUDE there by
> using a USB<->RS232 converter, but I'll need to investigate that a
> little.  I can't guarantee when I'll have anything - even though MacOS
> X has quite a few Unix underpinnings, I'm not really familiar yet with
> the mechanics of getting software installed in a Mac-like fashion (I'm
> pretty much a MacOS newbie).  Something to look forward to, anyway.

avarice has already been ported to OSX (and solaris) so is already
big-endian clean. I believe they use a USB-to-rs232 dongle.

Ted Roth