Package: expect Version: 5.42.1-1.2 Severity: important
Hi, I'm the author of ciscocmd, a short and simple expect script for CISCO, hosted on COSI Website and I can't release my script because I use the fork command and expect is broken under Sarge. Under Woody, I was able to run my scripts with forking mechanism. After dist-upgrade, the spawn command in forked process doesn't work anymore. This problem is well known and depends from the compilation option of tcl. The linked tcl version is compiled with enable-threads. This is incompatible with expect forking mechanism. Debian maintainer of tcl has been contacted but he says that a version without thread is provided for this : tcl 8.3. To test it, I have modified the debian rules file to use tcl 8.3 instead 8.4 and all is working now. Could you provide a version of expect that use tcl 8.3 ? Thanks in advance, Alain Degreffe -- Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages expect depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii tcl8.4 8.4.9-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
