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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="h">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="i">Install the package:</para>
91
92<screen os="j"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
93
94 <variablelist os="k">
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 </sect2>
108
109 <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
110 <title>Contents of Expect</title>
111
112 <segmentedlist>
113 <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
114 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
115
116 <seglistitem>
117 <seg>expect</seg>
118 <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg>
119 </seglistitem>
120 </segmentedlist>
121
122 <variablelist>
123 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
124 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
125 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
126
127 <varlistentry id="expect">
128 <term><command>expect</command></term>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
131 to a script</para>
132 <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect expect">
133 <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
134 </indexterm>
135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry id="libexpect">
139 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
142 extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
143 <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect libexpect">
144 <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
149 </variablelist>
150
151 </sect2>
152
153</sect1>
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