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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
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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.

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Gilles BRUNO
Universite Joseph Fourier - CRIP
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