----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 7:54 PM Subject: Re: Warning re Expect
> 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 > -- I made a patch last year that allow to compile 5.44.1.13 without tk. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13179&atid=313179 I changed to use --with-tk=no as --with-x options no more exist if I could remember what I have made one year ago. Gilles -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
