On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:51, Burton Strauss III
<bur...@smallnetsolutions.com> wrote:
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> Whenever the next time somebody updates this package, word of warning:
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SNIP :)
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> SourceForge only has expect-5.44.1.15.tar.gz and expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2.
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> So I grabbed them.  Bad idea.  Expect now requires Tk and Tcl and Tk requires 
> the X11 headers.  The –without-x parameter on the Tk build doesn’t seem to 
> work.  I tried a couple of things, but it just wasn’t worth it – this is C5, 
> after all…  so I gave up trying to be clever and pulled down the book 
> version, 5.43.0, which (of course ;-)) worked.
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> Figured I’d post the note for the next (poor fool) to try and trod that path.
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Eh, try not to post in HTML for me :)

If you had to downgrade expect, what are we going to do once all the
major distributions upgrade and LFS's expect becomes (pretty much)
obsolete?

Is there any alternative to expect?



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