2007/612 Expect 5.43 in SFW

[Danek Duvall]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:12:48PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:

> Danek Duvall wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:54:44PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
>>
>>>         /usr/lib/libexpect5.43.so       Shared lib
>>
>> I neglected to notice this before.  Is this the actual library, or the
>> link to the versioned object?  If the former, why isn't it versioned?
>> How is it used?
>
> I'll let Shiv answer the first two (FWIW, when I install expect from the
> existing open-source, it installs the actual library as libexpect5.43.so
> with no symlinks to a versioned library.)

Wow, that's hideous.  Though I'll note that it's the same for the tcl and
tk libraries, too, so I guess it's just some brokenness the tcl/tk
community somehow decided was the right thing to do.  I'll hold my nose and
try not to care.

> As for the latter question, there is a libexpect.3 man page in the
> materials directory.

Ah, thanks.

Danek