264821 – dev-embedded/avrdude-5.5 usbtiny support is broken on amd64

Bug 264821 - dev-embedded/avrdude-5.5 usbtiny support is broken on amd64

Summary: dev-embedded/avrdude-5.5 usbtiny support is broken on amd64

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Black (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2009-04-04 05:19 UTC by AJ Frantz
Modified:	2009-12-27 23:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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ebuild that can be used in portage overlay to fix this issue (avrdude-5.5-r1.ebuild,1.68 KB, text/plain) 2009-04-04 05:21 UTC, AJ Frantz	Details
Patch required by attached ebuild (64bit-pointersize.patch,1.11 KB, patch) 2009-04-04 05:22 UTC, AJ Frantz	Details \| Diff
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Description AJ Frantz 2009-04-04 05:19:40 UTC

Due to use of sizeof() on a pointer, avrdude fails when trying to communicate with a usbtiny device on amd64.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach usbtiny via serial
2. Run avrdude -c usbtiny -p m8

Actual Results:  
avrdude$ avrdude -c usbtiny -p m8

avrdude: error: usbtiny_receive: No error (expected 8, got 4) 

Expected Results:  
avrdude responding it couldn't find the target device (because I didn't have you attach an actual target in steps to reprodue)

This bug has been fixed upstream and is no longer a problem in avrdude 5.6.  Nevertheless, this issue exists in 5.5.  As such I'm marking severity minor, since the easiest workaround will be to simply move up to 5.6 (once its in portage).

Comment 1 AJ Frantz 2009-04-04 05:21:51 UTC

Created attachment 187265 [details]
ebuild that can be used in portage overlay to fix this issue

Comment 2 AJ Frantz 2009-04-04 05:22:20 UTC

Created attachment 187267 [details, diff]
Patch required by attached ebuild

Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-04-04 06:54:14 UTC

Please do not add people to CC if you cannot assign bugs yourself.

Assigning to maintainers.

Comment 4 Grygoriy I. Fuchedzhy 2009-08-15 15:54:47 UTC

Hi, patch works fine for me, why isn't it in portage tree yet? I think i'm not the first user that discovers this problem. Is it just forgotten to commit? Version 5.6 still is not in portage.

Comment 5 Robin Johnson archtester

2009-12-27 23:18:44 UTC

5.8 INCVS now.