Successful Bootstrap/Install of prerelease-3.3.4-20040517 on i686-apple-darwin7.0.0

[Mike Stump]

On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 05:47 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
Oh, I understand. But I have some different information than what Mike 
is saying.
:-(  The mind boggles...  Sorry.  You can get a version of expect out 
of our gcc3 cvs repository.   :-(  Apparently we do have some local 
mods.

I added a -darwin* like this:

*** ./config.sub.~1~    Mon Feb 11 18:00:55 2002
--- ./config.sub        Mon May 17 18:30:44 2004
*************** case $os in
*** 686,692 ****
              | -ptx* | -coff* | -ecoff* | -winnt* | -domain* | -vsta* \
              | -udi* | -eabi* | -lites* | -ieee* | -go32* | -aux* \
              | -cygwin32* | -pe* | -psos* | -moss* | -proelf* | 
-rtems* \
!             | -linux-gnu*)
        # Remember, each alternative MUST END IN *, to match a version 
number.
                ;;
        -linux*)
--- 686,692 ----
              | -ptx* | -coff* | -ecoff* | -winnt* | -domain* | -vsta* \
              | -udi* | -eabi* | -lites* | -ieee* | -go32* | -aux* \
              | -cygwin32* | -pe* | -psos* | -moss* | -proelf* | 
-rtems* \
!             | -linux-gnu* | -darwin*)
        # Remember, each alternative MUST END IN *, to match a version 
number.
                ;;
        -linux*)
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and it built up.  I didn't test the result to see exactly how well it 
worked, but I suspect it should be very, very close.  I did try running 
it and it appeared to work.  There is an OS kernel bug on 6.x that 
causes expect to miss some data on the pty, I'd recommend that you not 
use 6.x to test on.  7.x should be ok.

I got in contact with the Author of expect and he even happened to 
have a Mac :-) but he didn't figure out how to install the developer 
tools on it. I told him how to do it and never heard from him again 
... this was in february this year. So I assumed nothing has changed 
so far.
I'll cc him so that he can have the opportunity to add support for our 
fine platform.  :-)