Installation problems with Expect

markd at macports.org markd at macports.org
Fri Jan 23 11:22:02 PST 2009


>> I am having the same problem, reported all over  the web,  with Macport
>> installation of the program
>> Expect, apparently because of a problem recognizing the current version
>> of Tcl. Does someone
>> have a work-around? Thanks. Joe Goddard
>
>This ticket is (unfortunately) still the current state of things:
><http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13827>

I found a patch for using it with Tcl 8.5 and applied it.  Please do a
selfupdate to get revision 4  of expect and try again.  Note also that OS
X 10.4 and 10.5 have expect v5.42 included in case you weren't aware.

Mark



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