Re: [avrdude-dev] Yet another config parameter

[E. Weddington]

On 21 Feb 2003 at 14:36, Brian Dean wrote:

> Maybe we should keep the .sample around.  I know we had this
> discussion before, and the right thing to do seems to be platform
> specific, i.e., Windows does things a bit differently.
> 
> To keep from messing up someone's customizations to avrdude.conf, I
> think we should do something like this:
> 
>  1. install avrdude.conf.sample in /usr/local/share/avrdude
>            as avrdude.conf.defaults or something
> 
>  2. if there is no /usr/local/etc/avrdude.conf present, install
>            one with the defaults commented out, i.e., this one might
>            contain just:
> 
>   # default_parallel = "/dev/ppi0";
>   # default_serial   = "/dev/cuaa0";
> 
> Then, when avrdude starts up in can read in the config files in order
> of:
> 
>  /usr/local/share/avrdude/avrdude.conf.defaults
>  /usr/local/etc/avrdude.conf
>  ${HOME}/.avrduderc
> 
> With each later config file's entries taking precedence over earlier
> entries.


Is this the way that avrdude would operate without -C? Where would -C 
fit in?

Eric