[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

Óscar Fuentes
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:49:16 -0000

Kenneth Boyd <zaimoni at zaimoni.com> writes:

> The LLVM test suite requires expect as a dependency of DejaGNU.  The
> stock source of expect requires a *NIX fork, so it's relatively
> difficult to build under MinGW even though Tk/Tcl is easy to build
> under MinGW.  (I'm not aware of a precompiled MinGW binary for expect,
> although it might be in one of the more obscure packages).  I'd be
> interested in a successful build (with patches) for expect myself

About two years ago, ActiveState added the Windows port of Expect to its
Tcl distribution, which is the de-facto canonical source of Tcl/Tk for
Windows users. Check www.activestate.com

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Oscar