1 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-expect" xreflabel="Expect">
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2 | <title>Installing Expect-&expect-version;</title>
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3 | <?dbhtml filename="expect.html" dir="chapter05"?>
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4 |
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5 | <para>The Expect package contains a program for doing scripted dialogues with
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6 | other interactive programs.</para>
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7 |
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8 | <screen>&buildtime; &expect-time-tools;
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9 | &diskspace; &expect-compsize-tools;</screen>
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10 |
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11 | &aa-expect-down;
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12 | &aa-expect-dep;
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13 |
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14 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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15 |
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16 | <sect2>
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17 | <title>Installation of Expect</title>
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18 |
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19 | <para>First fix a bug that can result in bogus failures during the GCC test
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20 | suite run:</para>
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21 |
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22 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-patch;</userinput></screen>
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23 |
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24 | <para>Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
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25 |
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26 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib --with-x=no</userinput></screen>
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27 |
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28 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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29 |
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30 | <itemizedlist>
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31 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</userinput>: This ensures that
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32 | the configure script finds the Tcl installation in our temporary tools location.
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33 | We don't want it to find an existing one that may possibly reside on the host
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34 | system.</para></listitem>
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35 |
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36 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-x=no</userinput>: This tells the configure
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37 | script not to search for Tk (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System
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38 | libraries, both of which may possibly reside on the host system.</para></listitem>
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39 | </itemizedlist>
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40 |
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41 | <para>Build the package:</para>
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42 |
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43 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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44 |
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45 | <para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
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46 | <userinput>make test</userinput>. However, the Expect test suite is known to
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47 | experience failures under certain host conditions that are not fully
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48 | understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not surprising, and are not
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49 | considered critical.)</para>
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50 |
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51 | <para>And install it:</para>
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52 |
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53 | <screen><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
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54 |
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55 | <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
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56 |
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57 | <itemizedlist>
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58 | <listitem><para><userinput>SCRIPTS=""</userinput>: This prevents installation
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59 | of the supplementary expect scripts which are not needed.</para></listitem>
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60 | </itemizedlist>
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61 |
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62 | <para>You can now remove the source directories of both Tcl and Expect.</para>
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63 |
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64 | </sect2>
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65 |
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66 | &aa-expect-shortdesc;
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67 | &aa-expect-desc;
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68 |
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69 | </sect1>
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