Robert Xu wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:51, Burton Strauss III > <bur...@smallnetsolutions.com> wrote: >> Whenever the next time somebody updates this package, word of warning:
>> SourceForge only has expect-5.44.1.15.tar.gz and expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2. >> 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. > 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? The only reason we install expect on LFS is for test suites. That's why we don't install it in chapter 6. I haven't looked at expect-5.44, but I suppose we would need to create a patch to remove the Tk dependencies. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
