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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  <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6  %general-entities;
7  %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-temp-tools-expect" role="wrap">
11  <?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?>
12
13  <title>Expect-&expect-version;</title>
14
15  <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect">
16    <primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary>
17  </indexterm>
18
19  <sect2 role="package">
20    <title/>
21
22    <para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted
23    dialogues with other interactive programs.</para>
24
25    <segmentedlist>
26      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
27      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
28
29      <seglistitem>
30        <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31        <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
32      </seglistitem>
33    </segmentedlist>
34
35    <segmentedlist>
36      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
37
38      <seglistitem>
39        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
40        GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Tcl</seg>
41      </seglistitem>
42    </segmentedlist>
43
44  </sect2>
45
46  <sect2 role="installation">
47    <title>Installation of Expect</title>
48
49    <para os="a">First, 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><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \
57   --with-tclinclude=$TCLPATH --with-x=no</userinput></screen>
58
59    <variablelist os="d">
60      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
61
62      <varlistentry>
63        <term><parameter>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
64        <listitem>
65          <para>This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl
66          installation in the temporary temp-tools location.</para>
67        </listitem>
68      </varlistentry>
69
70      <varlistentry>
71        <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=$TCLPATH</parameter></term>
72        <listitem>
73          <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's source
74          directory and internal headers. 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      <varlistentry>
81        <term><parameter>--with-x=no</parameter></term>
82        <listitem>
83          <para>This tells the configure script not to search for Tk
84          (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System libraries, both of
85          which may reside on the host system but will not exist when
86          building the final system.</para>
87        </listitem>
88      </varlistentry>
89
90    </variablelist>
91
92    <para os="e">Build the package:</para>
93
94<screen os="f"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
95
96    <para os="g">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make test</userinput>.
97    Note that the Expect test suite is known to experience failures under
98    certain host conditions that are not within our control. Therefore,
99    test suite failures here are not surprising and are not considered
100    critical.</para>
101
102    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
103
104<screen os="i"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
105
106    <variablelist os="j">
107      <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
108
109      <varlistentry>
110        <term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term>
111        <listitem>
112          <para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect
113          scripts, which are not needed.</para>
114        </listitem>
115      </varlistentry>
116
117    </variablelist>
118
119    <para os="k">Now remove the <envar>TCLPATH</envar> variable:</para>
120
121<screen os="l"><userinput>unset TCLPATH</userinput></screen>
122
123    <para os="m">The source directories of both Tcl and Expect can now
124    be removed.</para>
125
126  </sect2>
127
128  <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
129    <title>Contents of Expect</title>
130
131    <segmentedlist>
132      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
133      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
134
135      <seglistitem>
136        <seg>expect</seg>
137        <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg>
138      </seglistitem>
139    </segmentedlist>
140
141    <variablelist>
142      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
143      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
144      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
145
146      <varlistentry id="expect">
147        <term><command>expect</command></term>
148        <listitem>
149          <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
150          to a script</para>
151          <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect expect">
152            <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
153          </indexterm>
154        </listitem>
155      </varlistentry>
156
157      <varlistentry id="libexpect">
158        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term>
159        <listitem>
160          <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
161          extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
162          <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-expect libexpect">
163            <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
164          </indexterm>
165        </listitem>
166      </varlistentry>
167
168    </variablelist>
169
170  </sect2>
171
172</sect1>
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