Re: [avrdude-dev] Building Avrdude 6.3

[Wayne Holder]

> Did you “make clean” or otherwise clear out the directory at the same
time as you deleted /opt?

To completely resolve the build issue I had to completely remove the /opt
tree, then remove all references to it from my $PATH setting and, finally,
rebuild all the libraries I'd built with brew, as some of them had used the
tools in /opt (which were quite old.)  Frankly, that's one of things I
dislike about solutions like macPorts and brew is that it can be hard to
know just exactly what is going on under the hood when you invoked one of
these automated build scripts.  I'm also not that skilled with using the
command line to do things, which tends to lead to panic, or despair when
something doesn't work.

Wayne

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:05 PM Joel Ray Holveck <address@hidden> wrote:

> Did you “make clean” or otherwise clear out the directory at the same time
> as you deleted /opt?
>
> Did Joerg’s suggestion help?
>
> If the answer is “no” and “yes” respectively, then I offer the following
> hypothesis.
>
> The Unix build process doesn’t really have a good way to see that a
> previous ranlib step failed, so if it sees that the .a file exists, it
> assumes that ranlib succeeded.  (ranlib only changes the structure of an
> existing .a file; on systems that need it, it’s generally run right after
> the .a is created in the build process.)  When you reran make, it thought
> that ranlib succeeded previously, and that assumption broke the later build
> steps.
>
> In Joerg’s case, it sounds like the mingw32 cross-build might not properly
> detect that it needs to run ranlib.  It’s not needed, for instance, on
> Linux.
>
> joelh
>
> > On Mar 22, 2019, at 23:49, Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 23. März 2019 03:14:53 MEZ schrieb Wayne Holder <
> address@hidden>:
> >
> >> libtool: link: gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o avrdude avrdude-main.o
> >> avrdude-term.o
> >> ./libavrdude.a -lusb-1.0 -lusb -framework CoreFoundation -framework
> >> IOKit
> >> -lftdi1 -lelf -lpthread -lm -lreadline -lncurses -ltermcap
> >>
> >> ld: archive has no table of contents file './libavrdude.a' for
> >> architecture
> >> x86_64
> >
> > I have a similar issue when cross-compiling the win32 version using
> mingw32. I never found the actual reason, alas.
> >
> > Try
> >
> > ranlib libavrdude.a
> >
> > and then "make" again.
> >
> >
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