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Re: expect

At 8:58 PM +0100 3/19/02, Uli Zappe wrote:


Besides, it's very inflexible, and my task of porting expect is a good example for that: I only want to build expect, but if I did it with Fink, I'd also have to build Tcl (though already present on OS X!), and - because with Fink I'm given no choice in configuring Tcl - also Tk, which in turn means I must build XFree - tons of MBs of things I really don't need.


Actually, it is fairly easy to make modifications to Fink's .info files to suit your tastes, add compiler flags, whatever. Remove the tcl dependency and make a "system-tcl" package that points at your OS install.

It is quite flexible.

But if you really don't want to bother, you can use fink's info and patch files as cheat sheets that show you how to get the thing building.

And as previously mentioned, patches are always submitted upstream. The comment about "stabilizing the gap" is baseless.

Putting stuff in its own domain is pretty smart when you realize that apple can and will write over whatever UNIX-layer stuff it wants (WITHOUT asking) when you install OS updates.

-Ben
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