source: testsuite-tools/common/expect.xml @ 31cff1bc

Last change on this file since 31cff1bc was 31cff1bc, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r972@server (orig r970): ken | 2005-12-28 17:06:15 -0800
Either we booted or we chrooted, so tk and X on the host are not visible by the time we get to expect.

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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-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    <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</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 testsuite-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    </variablelist>
69
70    <para os="f">Build the package:</para>
71
72<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
73
74    <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
75
76<screen os="j"><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
77
78    <variablelist os="k">
79      <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
80
81      <varlistentry>
82        <term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term>
83        <listitem>
84          <para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect
85          scripts, which are not needed.</para>
86        </listitem>
87      </varlistentry>
88
89    </variablelist>
90
91  </sect2>
92
93  <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
94    <title>Contents of Expect</title>
95
96    <segmentedlist>
97      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
98      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
99
100      <seglistitem>
101        <seg>expect</seg>
102        <seg>libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</seg>
103      </seglistitem>
104    </segmentedlist>
105
106    <variablelist>
107      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
108      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
109      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
110
111      <varlistentry id="expect">
112        <term><command>expect</command></term>
113        <listitem>
114          <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
115          to a script</para>
116          <indexterm zone="ch-testsuite-tools-expect expect">
117            <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
118          </indexterm>
119        </listitem>
120      </varlistentry>
121
122      <varlistentry id="libexpect">
123        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a</filename></term>
124        <listitem>
125          <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
126          extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
127          <indexterm zone="ch-testsuite-tools-expect libexpect">
128            <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
129          </indexterm>
130        </listitem>
131      </varlistentry>
132
133    </variablelist>
134
135  </sect2>
136
137</sect1>
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