[avrdude-dev] Compiling avrdude with libusb

[dlc]

Greetings,

  I've finally gotten a need to use avrdude with a USB AVR programmer. 
 I downloaded libusb 1.0.6, built that, got the latest avrdude source 
5.8, configured pointing to the libusb libs, but the configure says this 
about libusb:
checking for usb_get_string_simple in -lusb... no

Nothing I do will get avrdude's configure to recognize libusb.  Here are 
the "things" that I set up:

export CFLAGS=-I$IDIR/include
export LDFLAGS=-L$IDIR/lib
cd avrdude-5.8/
./configure --prefix=$IDIR

where IDIR is the installation directory where the libusb stuff lands in 
the appropriate lib and include directories.  I've checked, they're there.

There seems some confusion (to me) in on-line resources which refer to 
"the latest libusb", but then they talk about 0.1.12 which is a year 
old, libusb 1.0.6 is a couple of months old.  I vaguely remember reading 
something about one of the libusb trees being abandoned and not working 
correctly, but the dates on the two repositories leave me wondering 
which "branch" might be the old or defective one.

Can someone shed some light on this for me - It is obvious to me that 
I've missed some note or page that details what I should be doing since 
I'm pretty sure that I have the procedure correct, just something is not 
working...

Thanks all,
DLC

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Dennis Clark          TTT Enterprises
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