Bug 7775 - "expect -d" doesn't work
Summary: "expect -d" doesn't work
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tcltk
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Petersen
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-12-13 00:40 UTC by Jonathan Kamens
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2000-03-18 21:08:18 UTC
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patch to fix this bug; should be submitted to Expect maintainers (738 bytes, patch)
2000-02-04 16:15 UTC, Jonathan Kamens
no flags Details | Diff

Description Jonathan Kamens 1999-12-13 00:40:08 UTC
The file /tmp/foo.exp contains a single line which reads "spawn cat".

When I run "expect -d /tmp/foo.exp", I get:

expect version 5.28.1
argv[0] = expect  argv[1] = -d  argv[2] = /tmp/foo.exp
set argc 0
set argv0 "/tmp/foo.exp"
set argv ""
executing commands from command file /tmp/foo.exp
spawn cat
parent: waiting for sync byte
parent: telling child to go ahead
parent: sync byte write: broken pipe

This should not be happening.

Comment 1 han.holl 2000-01-04 12:56:59 UTC
On my system, expect doesn't work at all !
Recompiling the source RPMs didn't help, but recompiling
_without_ -O2 did !

This is a HP Netserver LC 3 with a 400 Mhz Pentium II.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2000-02-04 15:14:59 UTC
Expect 5.28.1 isn't distributed with Red Hat Linux, and the version that comes
with RHL does not seem to have this problem.

Comment 3 Jonathan Kamens 2000-02-04 15:43:59 UTC
Someone here is confused, and I don't think it's me.

expect-5.28-30.i386.rpm ships with RedHat 6.1  That is what is installed on my
machine:

> rpm -q expect
expect-5.28-30
> rpm --verify expect
>

That version is, indeed, expect 5.28.1:
> expect
expect1.1> exp_version
5.28.1
expect1.2> exit
>

And that version does, indeed, have this problem:

> cat /tmp/foo.exp
spawn cat
> expect -d /tmp/foo.exp
expect version 5.28.1
argv[0] = expect  argv[1] = -d  argv[2] = /tmp/foo.exp
set argc 0
set argv0 "/tmp/foo.exp"
set argv ""
executing commands from command file /tmp/foo.exp
spawn cat
parent: waiting for sync byte
parent: telling child to go ahead
parent: sync byte write: broken pipe
>

Comment 4 Jonathan Kamens 2000-02-04 16:15:59 UTC
Created attachment 90 [details]
patch to fix this bug; should be submitted to Expect maintainers

Comment 5 Elliot Lee 2000-02-04 19:10:59 UTC
That's funny:
[root@ostrich-deluxe 6.2]# type expect
expect is hashed (/usr/bin/expect)
[root@ostrich-deluxe 6.2]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/expect
expect-5.28-30
[root@ostrich-deluxe 6.2]# expect
expect1.1> exp_version
5.26
expect1.2>
[root@ostrich-deluxe 6.2]#

Why is it telling you 5.28.1?

Comment 6 Jonathan Kamens 2000-02-14 12:11:59 UTC
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 21:29:46 -0500
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik.ma.us>
To: bugzilla
CC: jbj
Subject: Re: [Bug 7775] Changed - "expect -d" doesn't work

>  Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:10:20 -0500
>  From: bugzilla.com
>
>  +Why is it telling you 5.28.1?

A better question would be, "Why is it telling YOU 5.26?"

Did you run "rpm -q -v expect", as I did, to confirm that something
hasn't replaced the expect binary on your machine such that it no
longer matches what was in the RPM?  I strongly suspect that something
has.  Did you try reinstalling the RPM and seeing if that changes the
version of expect installed on your machine?  I strongly suspect that
it will.

If you download and unpack the tcltk source RPM and run "tar tzf
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/expect.tar.gz", you will see a bunch of path
names starting with "expect-5.28/".  It is clear that the version of
expect in this RPM is 5.28, not 5.26.

In any case, if you look at the patch that I submitted, it should be
obvious that the patch is correct and should be applied.

  Jonathan Kamens

Comment 7 Jonathan Kamens 2000-02-14 12:12:59 UTC
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 16:02:59 -0500
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik.ma.us>
To: jik.ma.us
CC: bugzilla, jbj
Subject: Re: [Bug 7775] Changed - "expect -d" doesn't work

Last night, I wrote:

>  Did you run "rpm -q -v expect",

I should have said "rpm --verify expect", not "rpm -q -v expect".

  jik

Comment 8 Jeff Johnson 2000-03-18 21:08:59 UTC
Fixed (i.e. your patch is in) in tcltk-8.2.3-36.


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