Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20020729205647.2270.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:56:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: RE: expect help on cygwin To: "Harig, Mark A." , C Wells , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Harig, Mark A." wrote: > I've been looking at this problem, but don't have any solution. > I believe that 'spawn' is broken because pseudo-tty support is > not available in 'expect'. At one time, this may have been > because pseudo-tty support was not in the 'inetutils' package, > but some tty support has been added. > > Here are some of the symptoms so far: > > - Cygwin's expect is based on expect-5.26. The latest release > of expect (July 18, 2002) is 5.38. > > - Cygwin's tcl/tk is based on tcl-8.0. The 'expect' home page > says (implicitly) that expect-5.38 works with tcl-8.3.2, but > it does not say that it won't work with tcl-8.0. > > - expect-5.38 does not build "out of the box" with with Cygwin's > tcl-8.0. It also has out of date 'configure', 'config.sub', > and 'config.guess' scripts. > > What to do? Here are some alternatives: Sorry to chime in here, but the latest gdb (a.k.a. insight) test release includes an updated tcl/tk/itcl/tix. IMHO, I think new test releases of dejagnu & expect should have been built as well, but oh well... I think there is still a bug that I reported on a week or so ago, but otherwise it should work ok. Getting expect to compile outside of the cygnus tree is a whole nother thing. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/