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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-temp-tools-expect" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?>
10
11  <title>Expect-&expect-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect">
14    <primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted
21    dialogues with other interactive programs.</para>
22
23    <segmentedlist>
24      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26      <seglistitem>
27        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
28        GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Tcl</seg>
29      </seglistitem>
30    </segmentedlist>
31
32  </sect2>
33
34  <sect2 role="installation">
35    <title>Installation of Expect</title>
36
37    <para os="a">First, fix a bug that can result in false failures during the GCC
38    test suite run:</para>
39
40<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-spawn-patch;</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="c">Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \
45   --with-tclinclude=$TCLPATH --with-x=no</userinput></screen>
46
47    <variablelist os="d">
48      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
49
50      <varlistentry>
51        <term><parameter>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
52        <listitem>
53          <para>This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl
54          installation in the temporary temp-tools location.</para>
55        </listitem>
56      </varlistentry>
57
58      <varlistentry>
59        <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=$TCLPATH</parameter></term>
60        <listitem>
61          <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's source
62          directory and internal headers. Using this option avoids conditions
63          where <command>configure</command> fails because it cannot
64          automatically discover the location of the Tcl source directory.</para>
65        </listitem>
66      </varlistentry>
67
68      <varlistentry>
69        <term><parameter>--with-x=no</parameter></term>
70        <listitem>
71          <para>This tells the configure script not to search for Tk
72          (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System libraries, both of
73          which may reside on the host system but will not exist when
74          building the final system.</para>
75        </listitem>
76      </varlistentry>
77
78    </variablelist>
79
80    <para os="e">Build the package:</para>
81
82<screen os="f"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
83
84    <para os="g">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make test</userinput>.
85    Note that the Expect test suite is known to experience failures under
86    certain host conditions that are not within our control. Therefore,
87    test suite failures here are not surprising and are not considered
88    critical.</para>
89
90    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
91
92<screen os="i"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
93
94    <variablelist os="j">
95      <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
96
97      <varlistentry>
98        <term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term>
99        <listitem>
100          <para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect
101          scripts, which are not needed.</para>
102        </listitem>
103      </varlistentry>
104
105    </variablelist>
106
107    <para os="k">Now remove the <envar>TCLPATH</envar> variable:</para>
108
109<screen os="l"><userinput>unset TCLPATH</userinput></screen>
110
111    <para os="m">The source directories of both Tcl and Expect can now
112    be removed.</para>
113
114  </sect2>
115
116  <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
117    <title>Contents of Expect</title>
118
119    <segmentedlist>
120      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
121      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
122
123      <seglistitem>
124        <seg>expect</seg>
125        <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg>
126      </seglistitem>
127    </segmentedlist>
128
129    <variablelist>
130      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
131      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
132      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
133
134      <varlistentry id="expect">
135        <term><command>expect</command></term>
136        <listitem>
137          <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
138          to a script</para>
139          <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect expect">
140            <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
141          </indexterm>
142        </listitem>
143      </varlistentry>
144
145      <varlistentry id="libexpect">
146        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term>
147        <listitem>
148          <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
149          extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
150          <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect libexpect">
151            <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
152          </indexterm>
153        </listitem>
154      </varlistentry>
155
156    </variablelist>
157
158  </sect2>
159
160</sect1>
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