%general-entities; ]> Expect-&expect-version; Expect <para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted dialogues with other interactive programs.</para> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Expect First, 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 The meaning of the configure options: --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 The meaning of the make parameter: SCRIPTS="" This prevents installation of the supplementary expect scripts, which are not needed. Contents of Expect 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;