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diff --git a/chapter05/expect.xml b/chapter05/expect.xml index 28533b4af..6ac5cdef0 100644 --- a/chapter05/expect.xml +++ b/chapter05/expect.xml @@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ <indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect"><primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> -<para>The Expect package contains a program for carrying out scripted dialogues -with other interactive programs.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -19,102 +17,35 @@ with other interactive programs.</para> <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>3.9 MB</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> -<segmentedlist> -<segtitle>Expect installation depends on</segtitle> -<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, -GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Tcl</seg></seglistitem> -</segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Expect</title> -<para>First fix a bug that can result in bogus failures during the GCC test -suite run:</para> - <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../expect-&expect-version;-spawn-1.patch</userinput></screen> <para>Now prepare Expect for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib --with-x=no</userinput></screen> -<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para> - -<variablelist> -<varlistentry> -<term><parameter>--with-tcl=/tools/lib</parameter></term> -<listitem><para>This ensures that -the configure script finds the Tcl installation in our temporary tools location. -We don't want it to find an existing one that may possibly reside on the host -system.</para></listitem> -</varlistentry> - -<varlistentry> -<term><parameter>--with-x=no</parameter></term> -<listitem><para>This tells the configure -script not to search for Tk (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System -libraries, both of which may possibly reside on the host system.</para></listitem> -</varlistentry> -</variablelist> - <para>Build the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>(If you want to test the results, then issue: -<userinput>make test</userinput>. However, the Expect test suite is known to -experience failures under certain host conditions that are not within our -control. Therefore, test suite failures here are not surprising, and are not -considered critical.)</para> +<para>To test the results, issue: +<userinput>make test</userinput></para> <para>And install it:</para> <screen><userinput>make SCRIPTS="" install</userinput></screen> -<para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para> - -<variablelist> -<varlistentry> -<term><parameter>SCRIPTS=""</parameter></term> -<listitem><para>This prevents installation -of the supplementary expect scripts which are not needed.</para></listitem> -</varlistentry> -</variablelist> - <para>You can now remove the source directories of both Tcl and Expect.</para> </sect2> - <sect2 id="contents-expect" role="content"><title>Contents of Expect</title> -<segmentedlist> -<segtitle>Installed program</segtitle> -<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle> -<seglistitem><seg>expect</seg><seg>libexpect-5.42.a</seg></seglistitem> -</segmentedlist> - -<variablelist><title>Short description</title> - -<varlistentry id="expect"> -<term><command>expect</command></term> -<listitem> -<indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect expect"><primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary></indexterm> -<para><quote>talks</quote> to other interactive -programs according to a script.</para> -</listitem> -</varlistentry> - -<varlistentry id="libexpect"> -<term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-5.42.a</filename></term> -<listitem> -<para>contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl extension or to -be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl)."</para> -<indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect libexpect"><primary -sortas="c-libexpect-5.42">libexpect-5.42</primary></indexterm> -</listitem> -</varlistentry> -</variablelist> +<para>See testing</para> </sect2> |