Re: [patch] Fix expect build under cygwin + Tcl/Tk 8.3

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:27:31AM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I am just checking back on a patch I sent in:
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-05/msg00621.html
>
>It got one response:
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-05/msg00654.html
>
>> >The current CVS version of expect does not build correctly under
>> >Cygwin.  The root of the problem is that expect is searching for a
>> >tclConfig.sh file in tcl/unix when it should be looking in tcl/win.
>> >The following patch fixes the problem by updating the m4 macros used by
>> >the expect build.
>
>> AFAIK, expect shouldn't be using the win version of anything.  It is
>> supposed to be using a UNIX-only implementation of tcl.
>> cgf
>
>I guess it would have helped if I had included the more detailed
>description from my earlier post to the insight list:

What would have helped would have been if it actually failed for me.
I can build expect with no problem.

Again, expect is not supposed to be using the windows version of
anything.  It is supposed to be using the cygwin/unix version.

cgf