| 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 apply a patch:</para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para>This fixes a bug in Expect that can result in bogus failures during the
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| 24 | GCC test suite run.</para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib --with-x=no</userinput></screen>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <itemizedlist>
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| 33 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</userinput>: This ensures that
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| 34 | the configure script finds the Tcl installation in our temporary tools location.
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| 35 | We don't want it to find an existing one that may possibly reside on the host
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| 36 | system.</para></listitem>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-x=no</userinput>: This tells the configure
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| 39 | script not to search for Tk (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System
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| 40 | libraries, both of which may possibly reside on the host system.</para></listitem>
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| 41 | </itemizedlist>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para>Build the package:</para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
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| 48 | <userinput>make test</userinput>. However, the Expect test suite is known to
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| 49 | experience failures under certain host conditions that are not fully
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| 50 | understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not surprising, and are not
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| 51 | considered critical.)</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <para>And install it:</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <screen><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <itemizedlist>
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| 60 | <listitem><para><userinput>SCRIPTS=""</userinput>: This prevents installation of
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| 61 | the supplementary expect scripts which are not needed.</para></listitem>
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| 62 | </itemizedlist>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <para>You can now remove the source directories of both Tcl and Expect.</para>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </sect2>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | &aa-expect-shortdesc;
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| 69 | &aa-expect-desc;
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| 70 |
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| 71 | </sect1>
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| 72 |
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