[rancid] Re: patch expect with expect-hack1

[Ryan West]

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:06 PM
> To: Ryan West
> Cc: Smokeping slt; heas at shrubbery.net; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: patch expect with expect-hack1
> 
> Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:59:08PM +0000, Ryan West:
> > Smoke,
> >
> > It's my understanding that expect => 5.4.3 is fine, you shouldn't need to
> apply the patch.
> 
> that is not my understanding, but i am not a linux user and have just
> blindly kept the patch for solaris.  however, i didnt notice anything
> in the changelogs for expect or tcl that seemed like they'd have been
> a fix for the hanging problem.
> 
> but, i dont have time to teach source patching, so
> ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid:
> 
> 419691 May 14 15:57 expect-5.43.0.tar.bz2
> 421271 May 14 15:59 expect-5.43.0_hack.tar.bz2
> 3653369 May 14 15:57 tcl8.4.18-src.tar.gz
> 
> expect w/ the hack applied and its associated tcl, which I know works on
> solaris, freebsd and netbsd.
> 

Has anyone successfully compiled the expect hack for 5.43 on Linux?

-ryan