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| 6 | ]> |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-temp-tools-expect" role="wrap"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Expect-&expect-version;</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect"> |
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary> |
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| 15 | </indexterm> |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 18 | <title/> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted |
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| 21 | dialogues with other interactive programs.</para> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 24 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle> |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | <seglistitem> |
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| 27 | <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, |
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| 28 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Tcl</seg> |
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| 29 | </seglistitem> |
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| 30 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | </sect2> |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 35 | <title>Installation of Expect</title> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <para os="a">First, fix a bug that can result in false failures during the GCC |
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| 38 | test suite run:</para> |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | <screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-spawn-patch;</userinput></screen> |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | <para os="c">Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para> |
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| 43 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 44 | <screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \ |
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[b15e6404] | 45 | --with-tclinclude=/tools/include --with-x=no</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 46 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 47 | <variablelist os="e"> |
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[3f8be484] | 48 | <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | <varlistentry> |
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| 51 | <term><parameter>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</parameter></term> |
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| 52 | <listitem> |
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| 53 | <para>This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl |
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| 54 | installation in the temporary temp-tools location.</para> |
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| 55 | </listitem> |
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| 56 | </varlistentry> |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <varlistentry> |
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[b15e6404] | 59 | <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=/tools/include</parameter></term> |
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[3f8be484] | 60 | <listitem> |
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[b15e6404] | 61 | <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal headers. |
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| 62 | Using this option avoids conditions |
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[3f8be484] | 63 | where <command>configure</command> fails because it cannot |
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| 64 | automatically discover the location of the Tcl source directory.</para> |
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| 65 | </listitem> |
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| 66 | </varlistentry> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | <varlistentry> |
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| 69 | <term><parameter>--with-x=no</parameter></term> |
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| 70 | <listitem> |
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| 71 | <para>This tells the configure script not to search for Tk |
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| 72 | (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System libraries, both of |
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| 73 | which may reside on the host system but will not exist when |
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| 74 | building the final system.</para> |
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| 75 | </listitem> |
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| 76 | </varlistentry> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | </variablelist> |
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| 79 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 80 | <para os="f">Build the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 81 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 82 | <screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 83 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 84 | <para os="h">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make test</userinput>. |
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[3f8be484] | 85 | Note that the Expect test suite is known to experience failures under |
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| 86 | certain host conditions that are not within our control. Therefore, |
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| 87 | test suite failures here are not surprising and are not considered |
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| 88 | critical.</para> |
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| 89 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 90 | <para os="i">Install the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 91 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 92 | <screen os="j"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 93 | |
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[aa3ee8b] | 94 | <variablelist os="k"> |
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[3f8be484] | 95 | <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title> |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | <varlistentry> |
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| 98 | <term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term> |
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| 99 | <listitem> |
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| 100 | <para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect |
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| 101 | scripts, which are not needed.</para> |
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| 102 | </listitem> |
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| 103 | </varlistentry> |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | </variablelist> |
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| 106 | |
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| 107 | </sect2> |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content"> |
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| 110 | <title>Contents of Expect</title> |
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| 111 | |
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| 112 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 113 | <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle> |
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| 114 | <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle> |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | <seglistitem> |
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| 117 | <seg>expect</seg> |
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| 118 | <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg> |
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| 119 | </seglistitem> |
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| 120 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 121 | |
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| 122 | <variablelist> |
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| 123 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 124 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 125 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 126 | |
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| 127 | <varlistentry id="expect"> |
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| 128 | <term><command>expect</command></term> |
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| 129 | <listitem> |
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| 130 | <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according |
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| 131 | to a script</para> |
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| 132 | <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect expect"> |
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| 133 | <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary> |
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| 134 | </indexterm> |
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| 135 | </listitem> |
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| 136 | </varlistentry> |
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| 137 | |
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| 138 | <varlistentry id="libexpect"> |
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| 139 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term> |
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| 140 | <listitem> |
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| 141 | <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl |
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| 142 | extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para> |
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| 143 | <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect libexpect"> |
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| 144 | <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary> |
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| 145 | </indexterm> |
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| 146 | </listitem> |
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| 147 | </varlistentry> |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | </variablelist> |
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| 150 | |
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| 151 | </sect2> |
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| 153 | </sect1> |
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