incompatible change in boards.txt which will break make flash

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incompatible change in boards.txt which will break make flash

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 5 comments

The next ESP32 Core release will break make flash. The reason is that the upload tool will change from esptool to esptool_py, thus the string tools.esptool.upload.pattern becomes tools.esptool_py.upload.pattern.

The Arduino Core maintainer @me-no-dev suggested to read the tool name also from boards.txt. It can be found in ${BOARD).upload.tool.

I think it is only the perl code that is affected.

Answer 1 · 2018-12-17T11:10:42.000Z

This change was required because 8266 Arduino uses the same tool name (esptool) but the tool is in fact a different one, so in some installation cases, one of the cores was not able to flash because it was looking for the wrong esptool. Change was suggested by the Arduino IDE maintainers themselves.

Answer 2 · 2018-12-17T15:36:09.000Z

This is the corresponding commit for reference.

Answer 3 · 2018-12-18T11:20:39.000Z

Ok, fix is coming

Answer 4 · 2018-12-18T17:58:01.000Z

Please try latest version

Answer 5 · 2018-12-19T16:31:43.000Z

Works for me on ESP8266, ESP32 (pre 1.0.1-RC2) and ESP32 (HEAD).