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.

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.

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
>

Created attachment 90 [details]
patch to fix this bug; should be submitted to Expect maintainers

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?

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 21:29:46 -0500
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
To: bugzilla@redhat.com
CC: jbj@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 7775] Changed - "expect -d" doesn't work

>  Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:10:20 -0500
>  From: bugzilla@bugzilla.redhat.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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 16:02:59 -0500
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
To: jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us
CC: bugzilla@redhat.com, jbj@redhat.com
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

Fixed (i.e. your patch is in) in tcltk-8.2.3-36.