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Last change on this file since e71ed78 was e71ed78, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r887@server (orig r885): jim | 2005-12-12 22:18:58 -0800

r1043@server: jim | 2005-12-12 17:10:01 -0800
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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 os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \
45   --with-tclinclude=/tools/include --with-x=no</userinput></screen>
46
47    <variablelist os="e">
48      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
49
50      <varlistentry os="e1">
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 os="e2">
59        <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=/tools/include</parameter></term>
60        <listitem>
61          <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal headers.
62           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 os="e3">
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="f">Build the package:</para>
81
82<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
83
84    <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
85
86<screen os="j"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
87
88    <variablelist os="k">
89      <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
90
91      <varlistentry>
92        <term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term>
93        <listitem>
94          <para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect
95          scripts, which are not needed.</para>
96        </listitem>
97      </varlistentry>
98
99    </variablelist>
100
101  </sect2>
102
103  <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
104    <title>Contents of Expect</title>
105
106    <segmentedlist>
107      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
108      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
109
110      <seglistitem>
111        <seg>expect</seg>
112        <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg>
113      </seglistitem>
114    </segmentedlist>
115
116    <variablelist>
117      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
118      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
119      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
120
121      <varlistentry id="expect">
122        <term><command>expect</command></term>
123        <listitem>
124          <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
125          to a script</para>
126          <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect expect">
127            <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
128          </indexterm>
129        </listitem>
130      </varlistentry>
131
132      <varlistentry id="libexpect">
133        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term>
134        <listitem>
135          <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
136          extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
137          <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect libexpect">
138            <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
139          </indexterm>
140        </listitem>
141      </varlistentry>
142
143    </variablelist>
144
145  </sect2>
146
147</sect1>
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