Tcl8.3 upgrade, Expect patch.

Tcl8.3 upgrade, Expect patch.

[Ian Roxborough]

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.

Thanks,

  Ian.

Re: Tcl8.3 upgrade, Expect patch.

[H . J . Lu]

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.