[avrdude-dev] Building Avrdude 6.3

[Wayne Holder]

As part of trying to diagnose the issue I'm having with serbb and the TPI
protocol (see my other thread on this topic), I decided to try and build
the 6.3 release on my Mac Pro system and then see if I could resolve the
issue by making a few tweaks to the timing bit timing.  However, the build
process is not working for me.  Here's what I've tried and and what happens:

First, I downloaded the avrdude-6.3.tar.gz version from:

   http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/

and unpacked it to a folder.  Then, I ran the configure program.  This
seemed to work except that I got a pop up window that said that "gm4 had
quit unexpectedly."  I looked though the output from configure, but didn't
see an errors there, so I then ran make and, again got another "gm4 had
quit unexpectedly" pop up as well as a lot of output.  I ran make again
with the same pop up and the following, abbreviated output:

[Waynes-MacPro:~/Desktop/avrdude-6.3] wholder% make

/bin/sh ./ylwrap lexer.l lex.yy.c lexer.c -- flex

make: *** [lexer.c] Error 1

In looking at the files, I see one named lexer.i, but not one named lexer.h,
so I'm assuming that it did not get properly created by either the
configure script or the make script.  I have no idea why I get the "quit
unexpectedly" pop up.  My system is up to date with the latest version of
Xcode and is running macOS 0.14.2 (18C54) "Mojave".

Can anyone help sort this out?

Wayne