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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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-system-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-system-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-tmp-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&expect-tmp-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
<command>configure</command> where the
<command>tclConfig.sh</command> script 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.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Build the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<important>
<para>The test suite for Expect is considered critical.
Do not skip it under any circumstances.</para>
</important>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
<para>If any test fails with the message
<quote><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys. Ask your system
administrator to create more</computeroutput></quote>, it indicates
you've not mounted the
<systemitem class="filesystem">devpts</systemitem> file system
correctly. You need to exit from the chroot environment, read
<xref linkend='ch-tools-kernfs'/> again, and ensure the
<systemitem class="filesystem">devpts</systemitem> file system (and
other virtual kernel file systems) mounted correctly. Then reenter
the chroot environment following <xref linkend='ch-tools-chroot'/>.
This issue needs to be resolved before continuing.</para>
<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-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-system-expect expect">
<primary sortas="b-expect">expect</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libexpect">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libexpect-&expect-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-system-expect libexpect">
<primary sortas="c-libexpect-&expect-version;">libexpect-&expect-version;</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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