NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/lang/tcl/1081

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From: [e-mail] (Marc Shepard)
Subject: porting expect to an HP
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Summary: help...
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:24:54 GMT
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If anyone could explain how to port expect to an HP, I'd appreciate it. I'm running
HP-UX 8.0.7 on an HP9000/720.

I tried to build expect from the files in sprite.berkeley.edu. At first
tcl would not build. It complained that the line (632) in tclCmdAH.c which said
  if(!WIFEXITED(status))
had incompatable pointer types.

I finally gave up and got a newer release of tcl (version 6.3). This
built just fine on the HP. So now I need just build expect. Unfortunatly
when I try to build expect I get error messages:
  cc: "main.c", line 77: error 1574: Unknown size for "old_buf".
  cc: "main.c", line 77: error 1574: Unknown size for "new_buf".
  cc: "main.c", line 84: error 1588: "TIOCGETP" undefined.
  cc: "main.c", line 88: error 1549: Modifiable lvalue required for assignment operator.
  cc: "main.c", line 88: error 1530: Undefined struct or union.
  cc: "main.c", line 89: error 1530: Undefined struct or union.
  cc: "main.c", line 89: error 1530: Undefined struct or union.
  cc: "main.c", line 89: error 1588: "RAW" undefined.
  cc: "main.c", line 89: error 1588: "ECHO" undefined.
  cc: "main.c", line 89: error 1559: Complement operator takes integral operand.
  cc: "main.c", line 89: error 1549: Modifiable lvalue required for assignment operator.
  cc: "main.c", line 90: error 1588: "TIOCSETP" undefined.
  cc: "main.c", line 105: error 1588: "TIOCSETP" undefined.

What is even more puzzling is that if I compile with -DSYSV3 (I assume this is incorrect
since I'm running HP-UX) then it compiles main.c o.k. (well, at leat it doesn't complain),
but I get the follwoing errors later:
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 106: error 1574: Unknown size for "b".
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 107: error 1574: Unknown size for "tc".
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 108: error 1574: Unknown size for "lc".
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 109: error 1574: Unknown size for "win".
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 116: error 1588: "TIOCGETP" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 117: error 1588: "TIOCGETC" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 118: error 1588: "TIOCGETD" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 119: error 1588: "TIOCGLTC" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 120: error 1588: "TIOCLGET" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 121: error 1588: "TIOCGWINSZ" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 126: error 1588: "TIOCSETP" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 127: error 1588: "TIOCSETC" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 128: error 1588: "TIOCSLTC" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 129: error 1588: "TIOCLSET" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 130: error 1588: "TIOCSETD" undefined.
  cc: "pty_bsd.c", line 131: error 1588: "TIOCSWINSZ" undefined.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Marc Shepard
[e-mail]