making expect without X11

[Jim Arnold]

>On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:34:44 +0000 (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, 
>Jim Arnold wrote:
>>  How do I compile expect without having X windows installed?
>>
>>  If I use: make WITHOUT_X11=yes  if bombs out with the message below:
>>
>
>I'm sorry, I made mistake in previous my answer, your command is correct
>as well.
>
>>  ct.o shared/exp_event.o  shared/exp_chan.o shared/Dbg.o
>>  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl83   -lm -lc
>>  /usr/libexec/elf/ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib'
>>  /usr/libexec/elf/ld: use the --help option for usage information
>>  *** Error code 1
>>
>>  Stop in /usr/ports/lang/expect/work/expect-5.38.
>>  *** Error code 1
>>
>>  Stop in /usr/ports/lang/expect.
>>
>>  Please CC any responses to me as I cannot subscribe to the list.
>
>On my ports collection I also can't build expect.  It seems that ld(1)
>doesn't understand -Wl option, actually this is a option of gcc(1) for
>the linker.  Check output of "ld --help" and man page for gcc.
>
>When "make WITHOUT_X11=yes build" reaches that error message on my system,
>I modified expect's Makefile (in the work directory) and successfully
>build expect from ports collection.
>
>Modification: change "-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib" to "-rpath /usr/local/lib"
>in expect's Makefile.
>
>Right now I can run expect, but more tests should be done if above
>mentioned modification is correct.
>
>I suppose that this a bug and appropriate PR should be sent to FreeBSD.


After I added NO_X=yo to my /etc/make.conf file I was able to build expect.