Ticket #1625 (new enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Expect spawn patch is a workaround not a solution

Reported by: matthew@linuxfromscratch.org Assigned to: lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org
Priority: lowest Milestone: Future
Component: Book Version: 6.2
Severity: trivial Keywords:
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Description (Last modified by jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org)

According to the above bug report, our Expect patch that fixes spurious failures in the GCC testsuite isn't the correct approach. I would be grateful (as I'm sure TCL and Expect upstream would be) if someone could take the time to write a simple Expect script and/or a simple TCL script that tickles the same bug! Good luck :)

Attachments

expect-test.sh (302 bytes) - added by matthew@linuxfromscratch.org on 11/01/06 16:55:25.

Change History

08/30/05 08:11:55 changed by alexander@linuxfromscratch.org

Greg Schafer pointed me to this when I asked the same question:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43310

08/30/05 15:09:52 changed by matthew@linuxfromscratch.org

Well, I've tried that test case. I've increased it to 150 lines and it still works as I'd expect (no pun intended!) it to. This is without patching expect at all, and compiling it up against tcl-8.4.11.

02/05/06 17:54:26 changed by jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org

  • description changed.
  • milestone set to Future.

03/21/06 10:17:57 changed by archaic@linuxfromscratch.org

What is the status of this bug? Has anyone done more testing?

04/13/06 16:49:22 changed by archaic@linuxfromscratch.org

  • priority changed from normal to lowest.
  • version changed from SVN to unspecified.
  • type changed from defect to enhancement.
  • severity changed from normal to trivial.

Dropping priority and moving to unspecified milestone. I'd like to close it as WONTFIX, but Matt may have other ideas.

05/15/06 14:04:16 changed by matthew@linuxfromscratch.org

I'd prefer if we keep it open. It'll take a more committed person than me to try and get the TCL and Expect devs to cooperate and recognize there is a problem. Last time I tried, folks couldn't even reproduce the problem (IIRC one person tried, but they were running the test case on an already patched version of Expect that was in Ubuntu!).

07/13/06 12:24:21 changed by bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org

  • version changed from unspecified to 6.2.
  • milestone changed from Future to 6.3.

11/01/06 16:55:25 changed by matthew@linuxfromscratch.org

  • attachment expect-test.sh added.

02/08/07 13:48:58 changed by matthew@linuxfromscratch.org

  • milestone changed from 6.3 to Future.

We're not going to get this addressed by 6.3. Shifting to 'future'.