#33 avrdude won't load - syntax error in config file

[Greg Lorinc]

avrdude won't load, I get this on the console:

Launching /usr/local/CrossPack-AVR-20131216/bin/avrdude -carduino -P/dev/cu.wchusbserialfa140 -b9600 -pm16 -C/usr/local/Cellar/avrdude/6.3/etc/avrdude.conf 
Output:
avrdude: syntax error at /usr/local/Cellar/avrdude/6.3/etc/avrdude.conf:1062
avrdude finished

I use Eclipse Mars 4.5.2 on OS X (El Capitan).

[Michael Lipp]

I doubt that this is related to the Eclipse plugin. If you copy-paste the command in a terminal you'll most likely get the same result. From the message it's quite ovious that your avrdude.conf is buggy (wherever you got that from). If I was you, I'd send this to he maintainer of the avrdude package that you are using.

[Greg Lorinc]

avrdude works fine in the terminal/command line, that's why I suspect it has to do something with the plugin or Eclipse. Thanks anyway!

[Michael Lipp]

avrdude works fine in the terminal/command line, that's why I suspect it has to do something with the plugin or Eclipse. Thanks anyway!

If it works in the terminal with exactly the command line from the
eclipse message, it must be something in the environment. Move the
avrdude binary to avrdude.bin and add a small shell script "avrude"
instead that logs the environment before executing avrdude.bin.
Something like (untested):

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#!/bin/sh env > /tmp/invok.log exec "`dirname $0`"/avrdude.bin

Compare the environment logged in /tmp/invok.log when executing from
eclipse with the environment when executing from the terminal. (Assuming
that this works in OS X; that's some kind of Unix, isn't it? ;-) )