On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:00:44 +0200, Doug Evans wrote: > I'd say keep the comment in some form. > > The tcl/expect I've been using is > $ expect -v > expect version 5.44.1.14 > $ ldd /usr/bin/expect | grep tcl > libtcl8.5.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so.0 (0x00007ff9bac15000) After reverting 61ab2e32245eadc40c36c5d7d4c4962962df59bd on FSF GDB HEAD it still works for me. expect-5.44.1.14-0google.fc18.x86_64 tcl-8.5.12-1.fc18.x86_64 Built from Fedora 18 expect repository http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/expect.git/tree/?h=f18&id=751b103fb1c95b705fd8a2eb9cf5c682f0aef373 by attached .spec patch with: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/expect_5.44.1.14.orig.tar.gz Do you run some replaced valgrind on updated Ubuntu 10.04.4? Stock Ubuntu valgrind is too old for this testcase to run. Regards, Jan