It seems that we MUST have an avrdude.conf if we use our own programmer, even if we wanted to use the built in one.

So now avrdude.local.conf includes an "include" statement, and sources.sh will copy that referenced file into avrdude.conf

Author: sleemanj

dists/diy_attiny/avr/avrdude.local.conf

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-# This file is not currently used, the default avrdude.conf in the Arduino IDE is now suitable. 
-# (From IDE 1.6.13+)
+# This file is used to create avrdude.conf.
 #
-# Distributors: if necessary, put custom avrdude.conf in here and rebuild the distribution
-#  sources.sh will find it and create a suitable programmers.txt as necessary
+# Distributors: if necessary remove the include and put custom avrdude.conf 
+# in here and rebuild the distribution.  Currently 1.6.13 looks like it 
+# has a usable avrdude.conf
+#
+#include "/usr/local/stow/arduino-1.6.13/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

dists/diy_attiny/avr/sources.sh

@@ -66,10 +66,31 @@ version=${VERSION}
     # Not using a custom avrdude.conf
     rm -f avrdude.conf programmers.txt
     cp programmers.local.txt programmers.txt
+        
+    # Our platform.txt will also need modification to set the avrdude.conf back to the builtin
+    # cat platform.txt | sed -r 's/\{runtime.platform.path\}\/avrdude.conf/{path}\/avrdude.conf/' >platform.tmp.txt
+    # mv platform.tmp.txt platform.txt
+    
+    # Nope changing the path doesn't work, apparently, if we have our own programmers we MUST have our own 
+    # avrdude.conf, so copy it in place from arduino.  This whole configuration system is an inconsistent mess.
+    # The local file will include some other since it isnt an avrdude.conf itself
+    cat  >avrdude.conf <<EOF
+###############################################################################
+#
+# This file was copied from 
+#   $(grep -F "#include" avrdude.local.conf | sed -r 's/.*"(.*)".*/\1/')
+# as a result of avrdude.local.conf including it.
+#
+# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
+# Edit avrdude.local.conf and then recreate the distribution (or ./sources.sh)
+#
+###############################################################################
+
+
+
+EOF
+    cat $(grep -F "#include" avrdude.local.conf | sed -r 's/.*"(.*)".*/\1/') >>avrdude.conf
 
-    # Out platform.txt will also need modification to set the avrdude.conf back to the builtin
-    cat platform.txt | sed -r 's/\{runtime.platform.path\}\/avrdude.conf/{path}\/avrdude.conf/' >platform.tmp.txt
-    mv platform.tmp.txt platform.txt
   fi
 
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