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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Expect</title>
-<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../expect-&expect-version;.patch
-./configure --prefix=/stage1 --with-tcl=/stage1/lib --with-x=no
-make
+<para>First apply a patch:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../expect-&expect-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>This fixes a bug in Expect that can result in bogus failures during the
+GCC test suite run.</para>
+
+<para>Now prepare Expect to be compiled:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/stage1 --with-tcl=/stage1/lib --with-x=no</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Build, test, and install the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make
make test
make install</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>You can remove the tcl&tcl-version; directory now as well as the
-expect directory.</para>
+<para>Note that also here some of the tests might fail, and that this is not a
+problem here either.</para>
+
+<para>You can now remove the build directories of both Tcl and Expect.</para>
</sect2>