avra doesn't work with supplied *.inc files

[Dave Webb]

Binary package hint: avra

1)
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

2)
# apt-cache policy avra
avra:
  Installed: 1.2.3a-1
  Candidate: 1.2.3a-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.3a-1 0
        500 http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/comp/Linux/ubuntu/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)
assembling shipped *.inc files without errors.

4)
According [1] Avra is supplied with *.inc files for different AVRs, e.g. /usr/share/avra/m8def.inc

Putting

   .include "m8def.inc"

into test.asm and running

# avra -I /usr/share/avra test.asm

produces errors. No file is assembled:

Output
> Pass 1...
> /usr/share/avra/m8def.inc(40) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #ifndef
> /usr/share/avra/m8def.inc(41) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #define
> /usr/share/avra/m8def.inc(44) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #pragma

Please ship include files with avra which work with avra.
The include files are assembler version 2 whereas avra does only understand version 1 files.

Thanks a lot!

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/maverick/amd64/avra/filelist

[Alexey Liapidevskyi (personal-laa)]

Hello, Dave Webb.

I've just solved the same incompatibility using an instruction I found here (in Russian): http://src.lgg.ru/2011/03/avra_first/

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[KoRnKloWn (kornklown)]

Honestly guys, it's kind of rediculous that 3 years after the bug report, it's still here. Avra is not compatible with avr assembler 2 include files, so why are they still shipped with avra??? If you manually get all the include files from version 1, and overwrite the ones that ship with avra, then it works fine. And by the way, it's not just the m8def.inc file, it's also m16def.inc, which that's where I ran into the problem myself.

Avra should be compatible with all the include files that ship with it.

[KoRnKloWn (kornklown)]

In case you don't believe me, here's the output when including m16def.inc:

/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc(40) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #ifndef
/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc(41) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #define
/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc(44) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #pragma
/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc(48) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #pragma
/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc(53) : Error : Unknown mnemonic/macro: #pragma
/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc(534) : Error : Line to long
/usr/share/avra/m16def.inc: No such file or directory

Now if I replace it with the one from version 1, it assembles fine with no errors

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package avra - 1.3.0-2

---------------
avra (1.3.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update standards version to 3.9.6
  * Lintian override license-problem-undefined-license for files containing
    interface definitions.
  * Use proper function return types (closes: #749604)
  * LP: #681491 was fixed in upstream version 1.3.0

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden> Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:35:16 -0500