Avrdude on Linux64 is compiled whitout libusb

[ffissore]

From @eni23 on April 9, 2015 20:5

arduino: 1.6.3 release from arduino-website
os: debian wheezy amd64

the avrdude-binary is not compiled with libusb, which means no usb-serial adapters are supported. since most arduino-boards depend on usb-communication this is a quite big impact.
workaround: compile avrdude 6.0.1 on your own and replace broken binary's

Copied from original issue: arduino/Arduino#2952

[ffissore]

From @mschlenker on April 10, 2015 6:57

USB serial adapters usually are supported by the linux kernels drivers, not userland drivers. Those userland drivers are usually just needed for more exotic programmers.

Could you please post the USB IDs of the USB serial adapter (lsusb output) and the kernel version you are using (uname -a). Then after plugging in the usb serial adapter take a look at the last lines in the out put of dmesg.

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From @matthijskooijman on April 10, 2015 7:15

Agreed that libusb isn't needed for usb-serial adapaters, but not having libusb is still a problem for non-serial programmers like the JTAGICE3 and some others.

[ffissore]

I've checked the logs, and indeed since we switched to static compiling, avrdude is not linking to libusb anymore. Problem is without static, gcc fails with a missing LTO plugin.

[eni23]

u i was a little bit in a hurry i meant isp programmers and not uart-adapters. but anyway, it should be possible to compile it static with libusb..

[tdicola]

If it helps, here's a similar issue I raised about this where USBtinyISP programming (for boards like Trinket, Gemma, or the real USBtinyISP programmer) doesn't work because of the static link missing libusb issue: #22

[larsemil]

Yes. programming Gemma is not possible with 1.6.3.

avrdude was compiled without usb support.

I am more then happy to compile myself, if I know what to change to get libusb to work again.

[ffissore]

Working on this atm

[ffissore]

Tag https://github.com/arduino/toolchain-avr/releases/tag/avr-gcc-4.8.1-avrdude-6.0.1-arduino4 should fix it

[ffissore]

Sent too early: an updated toolchain will be soon released

[matthijskooijman]

What Arduino IDE will this upodated toolchain be released in? 1.6.4 I presume?

[ffissore]

Thanks to boards manager, we are going to release a 1.6.4 avr core very soon. May be even tomorrow CET morning

[ffissore]

1.6.4 core and tools (with libusb fix) available through boards manager