From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Tcl8.3 upgrade, Expect patch.
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 16:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010709162135.A2612@lucon.org>
References: <3B4A381D.B8D4B93E@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00083.html

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:02:53PM -0700, Ian Roxborough wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm seeking approval to check in the following changes
> to Expect:
> 
> - Changes to support Tcl8.3 API (Tcl8.0 will still work).
> - Move Tcl8.0 regexp into Expect.
> - Move some of Tcl8.0's tclParse.c into Expect.
> 
> These changes make Expect Tcl version independent, without
> us having to worry about rewriting any regular expressions.
> Once these changes are in place the Tcl8.3 upgrade can go
> mostly unnoticed.
> 
> You can find a patch and the new files in this tarball:
> 
> http://www.cygnus.com/~irox/expect/expect-update.tar
> 
> Any questions/feedback/comments are welcome.

Since you talk about expect bugs, I reported one to Red Hat

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43310

It may exist on all versions of expect. It shows up in the gas
directory when I do "make check" in binutils for Linux/hppa.
Does your expect have the same bug?


H.J.