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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-expect" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="expect.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>expect</productname>
+ <productnumber>&expect-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&expect-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Expect-&expect-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect">
+ <primary sortas="a-Expect">Expect</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The <application>Expect</application> package contains tools for
+ automating, via scripted dialogues, interactive applications such as
+ <command>telnet</command>, <command>ftp</command>,
+ <command>passwd</command>, <command>fsck</command>,
+ <command>rlogin</command>, and <command>tip</command>.
+ <application>Expect</application> is also useful for testing these same
+ applications as well as easing all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively
+ difficult with anything else. The <application>DejaGnu</application>
+ framework is written in <application>Expect</application>.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&expect-ch5-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&expect-ch5-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Expect</title>
+
+ <para>Prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">
+./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --with-tcl=/usr/lib \
+ --enable-shared \
+ --mandir=/usr/share/man \
+ --with-tclinclude=/usr/include</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-tcl=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This parameter is needed to tell the
+ <command>configure</command> where the
+ <command>tclConfig.sh</command> is located.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-tclinclude=/usr/include</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal
+ headers. Using this option avoids conditions where
+ <command>configure</command> fails because it cannot automatically
+ discover the location of Tcl's headers.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>Build the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
+ln -svf expect&expect-version;/libexpect&expect-version;.so /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
+
+ </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-&expect-lib-version;.so</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="expect">
+ <term><command>expect</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Communicates with other interactive programs according
+ to a script</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-tools-expect expect">
+ <primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="libexpect">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.so</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-&expect-lib-version;">libexpect-&expect-lib-version;</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>