[avrdude-dev] Re: avrdude 4.2.0 Release

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Theodore A. Roth wrote:

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

I've once compiled the entire toolchain on Solaris 8 (without avrdude
though by that time).  I think i'll be able to find the time to do
this again within the next couple of months.  This should give me the
opportunity to also cross-check everything against a non-gcc C
compiler (native Solaris compiler), as well as against SysV lex+yacc.

Obtw. that's another reason to not poison the default CFLAGS with
gcc-only flags (like -Wall, -Werror and such): it would give people
running different compilers a hard time.  At least when the auto*
tools detect a non-gcc compiler, the software should refrain from
using any non-portable option.  (-O, -g, -L, -I, -l are portable, most
of the remaining options probably not.)

Sure, avrdude won't be able to use the parallel port there either (do
the auto* tools automagically detect this, and disable the parallel
code?), but using a serial programmer is supposed to work on Solaris
as well.  If i still get hold of that STK500 some brave soul has left
on my desk by that time, i'll be able to test avrdude on that device.

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