topic Expect configuration -Warning in Operating System - Linux

Expect configuration -Warning

tulasi — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:49:39 GMT

Hi,
i want to install expect in my Linux system for that i have been installed tcl/tk and configured succesfully but when i configure for expect saying warning error:can't find Tcl configuration definitions.

configuring Expect 5.38.0
checking for autoconf... yes
checking configure up to date... yes
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking shell to use within Make...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for building with threads... no (default)
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: warning: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions
./configure: line 1106: #: No such file or directory

what might be the problem exactly.
can any one suggest me..

Thanking You,
Tulasi

Re: Expect configuration -Warning

Jerome Henry — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:15:08 GMT

Check that TCL and TK are in your path :

echo $PATH

And add them if they are not there...

hth

J

Re: Expect configuration -Warning

Caesar_3 — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:58:22 GMT

Hello!

Few thing to check, do you use the version
that your program looking for.
The permissions of Tcl and the path to.

Caesar

Re: Expect configuration -Warning

Donald C Nelson — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:59:43 GMT

Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem. I'm having the same issues.

Re: Expect configuration -Warning

Sergejs Svitnevs — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:01:45 GMT

You only need to to download and install tcl8.3 package.

Regards,
Sergejs