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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!news.imag.fr!news.ujf-grenoble.fr!pc_bruno From: gilles.bruno@ujf-grenoble.fr (Gilles Bruno) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to get expect for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 2 Jan 1997 14:10:46 GMT Organization: Universite Joseph Fourier - France Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5agfl6$pq1@ujf.ujf-grenoble.fr> References: <stanbE2s59t.EJ1@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: adm-bruno.ujf-grenoble.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33486 In article <stanbE2s59t.EJ1@netcom.com>, stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > Could some kind soul please point me in the right direction to get > expect working on my FreeBSD 2.1.5 machine? > The posrts version first complains about bad checksums. Once you work > arouns this it still has other problems. Finnaly tried just running > configure from the expect distribution, but the compile then fails on > some incude problems. > I realize thar this is a failry messy package to get going, what tih > it's dependency on Tcl/Tk but I need it. > Somebody must have this working on 2.1.5 right? The easiest way is the fetch the latest tcl/tk, and the expect packages and to recompile them fully on your system (configure, build them and *do not forget to 'make test'). We had the same problem here and compiled them successfully (expect 5-21). Hope it helps. -- Gilles BRUNO Universite Joseph Fourier - CRIP Domaine Universitaire 38041 St Martin d'Heres FRANCE Tel 04 76 63 56 68 Fax 04 76 51 42 74