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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-testsuite-tools-expect" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?>
10
11 <title>Expect-&expect-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-testsuite-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 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Expect</title>
27
28 <para os="s1">The following sed tells <command>configure</command> to look
29 for libraries in ${libdir}, not just in /tools/lib:</para>
30
31<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i '/EXP_LIB_SPEC=/s@${exec_prefix}/lib@${libdir}@' configure</userinput></screen>
32
33 <para os="t1">The following sed adds a missing include to
34 <filename>Dbg.c</filename>:</para>
35
36<screen os="t2"><userinput>sed -i '1i\#include &lt;expect_cf.h&gt;' Dbg.c</userinput></screen>
37
38 <para os="t3">The following sed causes one of the source files to include
39 the correct header</para>
40
41<screen os="t4"><userinput>sed -i "s/tcl.h/tclInt.h/" exp_inter.c</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para os="p1">The following patch prevents Expect from using functions
44 that are internal to TCL and are no longer available for expect to
45 link against:</para>
46
47<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-avoid_tcl_internals-patch;</userinput></screen>
48
49 <para os="a">Fix a bug that can result in false failures during the GCC
50 test suite run:</para>
51
52<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-spawn-patch;</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para os="c">Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
55
56<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \
57 --with-tclinclude=/tools/include</userinput></screen>
58
59 <variablelist os="e">
60 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
61
62 <varlistentry os="e1">
63 <term><parameter>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl
66 installation in the temporary testsuite-tools location.</para>
67 </listitem>
68 </varlistentry>
69
70 <varlistentry os="e2">
71 <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=/tools/include</parameter></term>
72 <listitem>
73 <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal headers.
74 Using this option avoids conditions
75 where <command>configure</command> fails because it cannot
76 automatically discover the location of the Tcl source directory.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 </varlistentry>
79
80 </variablelist>
81
82 <para os="f">Build the package:</para>
83
84<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
85
86 <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
87
88<screen os="j"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
89
90 <variablelist os="k">
91 <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
92
93 <varlistentry>
94 <term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect
97 scripts, which are not needed.</para>
98 </listitem>
99 </varlistentry>
100
101 </variablelist>
102
103 </sect2>
104
105 <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
106 <title>Contents of Expect</title>
107
108 <segmentedlist>
109 <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
110 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
111
112 <seglistitem>
113 <seg>expect</seg>
114 <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg>
115 </seglistitem>
116 </segmentedlist>
117
118 <variablelist>
119 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
120 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
121 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
122
123 <varlistentry id="expect">
124 <term><command>expect</command></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
127 to a script</para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-testsuite-tools-expect expect">
129 <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
130 </indexterm>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry id="libexpect">
135 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
138 extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
139 <indexterm zone="ch-testsuite-tools-expect libexpect">
140 <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 </variablelist>
146
147 </sect2>
148
149</sect1>
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