Update to Avrdude v7.2

[MCUdude]

Now that Avrdude v7.2 has just been released, it would be great if you could release a statically linked version here in this repo, just like you did with Avrdude v7.1. Thanks!

[MCUdude]

@umbynos do you think you have time to look into this?
Thanks! 🙂

[MCUdude]

Sorry to bother you again @umbynos and @facchinm, but it would be great if you had time to release statically built Avrdude 7.2 binaries soon, just like you did for Avrdude 7.1 a while ago. As these 7.2 binaries would be bundled to most 3rd party Arduino cores, it would really put the newly released Avrdude version to the test, which the Avrdude project needs. And not to mention, Avrdude is now "better than ever™" with (hopefully) fewer bugs than ever.

Thank you for your time!

[umbynos]

Hey @MCUdude, I will try to dedicate some time to this. Just a question: do you know if the patches still apply?

[MCUdude]

I will try to dedicate some time to this

Thank you. Much appreciated!

do you know if the patches still apply?

Not completely sure. I'm not involved in the build system side of things (@mcuee or @mariusgreuel may have a clue).
I think path 0007 and obviously 0008 still apply. 0006 I'm not sure about. I know libncurses were added right after the 7.1 release, but I don't know if it does the same thing as patch 0006. And I'm not familiar with libtinfo, so I don't know what this is for.

Here are the commit that have something todo with libncurses
avrdudes/avrdude@61dccf4

[mcuee]

Hey @MCUdude, I will try to dedicate some time to this. Just a question: do you know if the patches still apply?

This is my patch which works with avrdude 7.2.
https://github.com/mcuee/avrdude-packing/tree/main/patches

[MCUdude]

This is my patch which works with avrdude 7.2.

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that 0006 and 0007 are still needed? With or without modifications?

[mcuee]

This is my patch which works with avrdude 7.2.

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that 0006 and 0007 are still needed? With or without modifications?

I mean to say that the existing two patches no long work for avrdude 7.2 and I create a new patch.

[umbynos]

Finally, I managed to find some time, here it is https://github.com/arduino/avrdude-packing/releases/tag/7.2-arduino.1

[mcuee]

@umbynos
This is great! Thanks.

@MCUdude and @SpenceKonde
Now you can upgrade avrdude relase for your respective Arduino Core distributions.