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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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[593b439a] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-expect" role="wrap">
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[fcc02767] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>expect</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&expect-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&expect-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <title>Expect-&expect-version;</title>
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| 18 |
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[593b439a] | 19 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-expect">
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[fcc02767] | 20 | <primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary>
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| 21 | </indexterm>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 24 | <title/>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>The <application>Expect</application> package contains tools for
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| 27 | automating, via scripted dialogues, interactive applications such as
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| 28 | <command>telnet</command>, <command>ftp</command>,
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| 29 | <command>passwd</command>, <command>fsck</command>,
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| 30 | <command>rlogin</command>, and <command>tip</command>.
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| 31 | <application>Expect</application> is also useful for testing these same
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| 32 | applications as well as easing all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively
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| 33 | difficult with anything else. The <application>DejaGnu</application>
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| 34 | framework is written in <application>Expect</application>.</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <segmentedlist>
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| 37 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 38 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <seglistitem>
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[fb386e0] | 41 | <seg>&expect-tmp-sbu;</seg>
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| 42 | <seg>&expect-tmp-du;</seg>
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[fcc02767] | 43 | </seglistitem>
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| 44 | </segmentedlist>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect2>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 49 | <title>Installation of Expect</title>
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| 50 |
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[f272b23] | 51 | &update-config-text;
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">tar -C tclconfig &update-config-arg;</userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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[fcc02767] | 55 | <para>Prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
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| 56 |
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[595ff03] | 57 | <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[fcc02767] | 58 | --with-tcl=/usr/lib \
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| 59 | --enable-shared \
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| 60 | --mandir=/usr/share/man \
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| 61 | --with-tclinclude=/usr/include</userinput></screen>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <variablelist>
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| 64 | <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <varlistentry>
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| 67 | <term><parameter>--with-tcl=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
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| 68 | <listitem>
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[d672ab7] | 69 | <para>This parameter is needed to tell
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[fcc02767] | 70 | <command>configure</command> where the
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[aefc822] | 71 | <command>tclConfig.sh</command> script is located.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </varlistentry>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <varlistentry>
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| 76 | <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=/usr/include</parameter></term>
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| 77 | <listitem>
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| 78 | <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal
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[aefc822] | 79 | headers.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 80 | </listitem>
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| 81 | </varlistentry>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | </variablelist>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <para>Build the package:</para>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
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| 88 |
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[835e40c] | 89 | <important>
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| 90 | <para>The test suite for Expect is considered critical.
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| 91 | Do not skip it under any circumstances.</para>
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| 92 | </important>
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| 93 |
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[28e610db] | 94 | <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
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| 97 |
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[835e40c] | 98 | <para>If any test fails with the message
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| 99 | <quote><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys. Ask your system
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| 100 | administrator to create more</computeroutput></quote>, it indicates
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| 101 | you've not mounted the
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| 102 | <systemitem class="filesystem">devpts</systemitem> file system
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| 103 | correctly. You need to exit from the chroot environment, read
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| 104 | <xref linkend='ch-tools-kernfs'/> again, and ensure the
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| 105 | <systemitem class="filesystem">devpts</systemitem> file system (and
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| 106 | other virtual kernel file systems) mounted correctly. Then reenter
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| 107 | the chroot environment following <xref linkend='ch-tools-chroot'/>.
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| 108 | This issue needs to be resolved before continuing.</para>
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| 109 |
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[fcc02767] | 110 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
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| 113 | ln -svf expect&expect-version;/libexpect&expect-version;.so /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | </sect2>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content">
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| 118 | <title>Contents of Expect</title>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <segmentedlist>
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| 121 | <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
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| 122 | <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <seglistitem>
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| 125 | <seg>expect</seg>
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[85d9756b] | 126 | <seg>libexpect&expect-version;.so</seg>
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[fcc02767] | 127 | </seglistitem>
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| 128 | </segmentedlist>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <variablelist>
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| 131 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 132 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 133 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <varlistentry id="expect">
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| 136 | <term><command>expect</command></term>
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| 137 | <listitem>
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| 138 | <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
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| 139 | to a script</para>
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[593b439a] | 140 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-expect expect">
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[fcc02767] | 141 | <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
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| 142 | </indexterm>
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| 143 | </listitem>
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| 144 | </varlistentry>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <varlistentry id="libexpect">
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[85d9756b] | 147 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-version;.so</filename></term>
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[fcc02767] | 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl
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| 150 | extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)</para>
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[593b439a] | 151 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-expect libexpect">
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[85d9756b] | 152 | <primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-version;">libexpect-&expect-version;</primary>
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[fcc02767] | 153 | </indexterm>
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| 154 | </listitem>
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| 155 | </varlistentry>
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| 156 |
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| 157 | </variablelist>
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| 158 |
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| 159 | </sect2>
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| 160 |
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| 161 | </sect1>
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