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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="ch-tools-expect" xreflabel="Expect" role="wrap">
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<title>Expect-&expect-version;</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?>
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<indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect"><primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary></indexterm>
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<sect2 role="package"><title/>
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<para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted dialogues
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with other interactive programs.</para>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>3.9 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>Expect installation depends on</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Tcl</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 role="installation">
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<title>Installation of Expect</title>
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<para>First fix a bug that can result in false failures during the GCC test
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suite run:</para>
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<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../expect-&expect-version;-spawn-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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<para>Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
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<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib --with-x=no</userinput></screen>
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<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><parameter>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
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<listitem><para>This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl installation in
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the temporary tools location instead of possibly finding an existing
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one on the host system.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><parameter>--with-x=no</parameter></term>
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<listitem><para>This tells the configure script not to search for Tk
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(the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System libraries, both of
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which may possibly reside on the host system.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>Build the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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<para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make test</userinput>.
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Note that the Expect test suite is known to experience failures under
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certain host conditions that are not within our control. Therefore,
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test suite failures here are not surprising, and are not considered
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critical.</para>
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<para>Install the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
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<para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term>
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<listitem><para>This prevents installation of the supplementary expect
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scripts, which are not needed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>You can now remove the source directories of both Tcl and Expect.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content"><title>Contents of Expect</title>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
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<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>expect</seg><seg>libexpect&expect-version;.a</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short descriptions</bridgehead>
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<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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<varlistentry id="expect">
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<term><command>expect</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para><quote>talks</quote> to other interactive
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programs according to a script.</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect expect"><primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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