Adding arduino_packing_release github action

[mcuee]

As of now, the existing arduino_packing action is only executed upon push to git main, but not release tagging.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/arduino_packing.yml

This PR adds the github action upon tagging a release like v7.4.

Note: please use `Squash and merge" for this PR.

[mcuee]

@umbynos

Please review this. I think this may not be the best solution and it is probably better to include this function into the existing script.

[umbynos]

Sorry for taking so long, I've made some suggestions. This of course probably needs a test run to be sure everything works just fine

[MCUdude]

Noob question: Will it be possible to statically link against our fork of libserialport, which has that nasty macOS bug resolved?

[mcuee]

Noob question: Will it be possible to statically link against our fork of libserialport, which has that nasty macOS bug resolved?

As of now, I do not know how to cross-compile libserialport under macOS. Hopefully @umbynos can help here. After that we can use our fork.

Reference:

• Avrdude 7.3 arduino/avrdude-packing#31 (comment)

[umbynos]

Noob question: Will it be possible to statically link against our fork of libserialport, which has that nasty macOS bug resolved?

Yeah, for that you can use an approach similar to the one I used in the build_libs.sh script. You can do that in the workflow directly

[stefanrueger]

@mcuee Just checking whether this PR is still a draft despite recent commits last week

[mcuee]

@mcuee Just checking whether this PR is still a draft despite recent commits last week

Still a draft -- missing one change now.

[mcuee]

I believe this is ready for review now.

[mcuee]

@umbynos

Please carry out a sanity check to see the latest commit is okay or not. Thanks.

[mcuee]

@stefanrueger

Once @umbynos reviews this PR and says OK, you can merge it. Please use "Squash and merge" option for this PR. Thanks.

[mcuee]

@umbynos

Please help to double check this PR. Thanks.

[umbynos]

I would trigger a test release, just to be sure everything works

[mcuee]

I would trigger a test release, just to be sure everything works

In that case, do we need to merge this PR first and then trigger a test release?

[mcuee]

@umbynos

I thought I fixed the CI build issue here in commit mcuee@1a04644.
https://github.com/mcuee/avrdude/actions/runs/8586853035/job/23529789940

Run mkdir -p _Linux_ARMv6/bin _Linux_ARMv6/etc
renamed 'build/src/' -> '_Linux_ARMv6/bin/src'
mv: cannot stat 'build/src/.conf': No such file or directory
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

But now I can not see the CI being trigged when I tagged a pre-release v7.4snapshot20240407.
https://github.com/mcuee/avrdude/actions

Edit -- false alarm -- I wrongly tagged the main branch.

[mcuee]

@umbynos

But github CI build is still faling. Please help to check what is going wrong. Thanks a lot for the help in advance.
https://github.com/mcuee/avrdude/actions/runs/8586938423

[mcuee]

@umbynos

Now CI is good. Please carry out a final review to see if it is good to go. Thanks.
https://github.com/mcuee/avrdude/actions/runs/8587135306

[umbynos]

LGTM

[mcuee]

@stefanrueger

Now it should be good to go. Please use Squash and merge. Thanks.