%general-entities; ]> Expect First, fix a bug that can result in false failures during the GCC test suite run: patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-spawn-patch; Now prepare Expect for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools --with-tcl=/tools/lib \ --with-tclinclude=/tools/include --with-x=no --with-tcl=/tools/lib This ensures that the configure script finds the Tcl installation in the temporary temp-tools location. --with-tclinclude=/tools/include This explicitly tells Expect where to find Tcl's internal headers. Using this option avoids conditions where configure fails because it cannot automatically discover the location of the Tcl source directory. --with-x=no This tells the configure script not to search for Tk (the Tcl GUI component) or the X Window System libraries, both of which may reside on the host system but will not exist when building the final system. Build the package: make To test the results, issue: make test. Note that the Expect test suite is known to experience failures under certain host conditions that are not within our control. Therefore, test suite failures here are not surprising and are not considered critical. Install the package: make SCRIPTS="" install SCRIPTS="" This prevents installation of the supplementary expect scripts, which are not needed. Installed program Installed library expect libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a Short Descriptions expect Communicates with other interactive programs according to a script expect libexpect-&expect-lib-version;.a Contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl) libexpect-&expect-lib-version;