%general-entities; ]> Expect The following sed tells configure to look for libraries in ${libdir}, not just in /tools/lib: sed -i '/EXP_LIB_SPEC=/s@${exec_prefix}/lib@${libdir}@' configure The following sed adds a missing include to Dbg.c: sed -i '1i\#include <expect_cf.h>' Dbg.c The following sed causes one of the source files to include the correct header sed -i "s/tcl.h/tclInt.h/" exp_inter.c The following patch prevents Expect from using functions that are internal to TCL and are no longer available for Expect to link against: patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-avoid_tcl_internals-patch; Fix a bug that can result in false failures during the GCC test suite run: patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-spawn-patch; Now prepare Expect for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \ --with-tclinclude=/tools/include --with-tcl=/tools/lib This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl installation in the temporary testsuite-tools location. --with-tclinclude=/tools/include This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal headers. Using this option avoids conditions where configure fails because it cannot automatically discover the location of the Tcl source directory. Build the package: make Install the package: make SCRIPTS="" install SCRIPTS="" This prevents installation of the supplementary expect scripts, which are not needed. Installed program Installed library expect libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a Short Descriptions expect Communicates with other interactive programs according to a script expect libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl) libexpect-&expect-lib-version;