Is it just me or is expect completely broken?

I had deleted /tools, but wanted to do "make -k check" now for gcc-4.1.

I compiled and installed tcl, using the instructions from the book 
(SVN-20060117), replacing /tools with /usr.

Then I tried the same with expect and it fails miserably

I tried the tarballs from sourceforge and from http://expect.nist.gov/src/ 
with the same results.

./configure gives an error:
configure: error: can not find sources in . or ..

checking configure I find:

line 537: ac_unique_file=expect

line 553: if test ! -r $srcdir/$ac_unique_file; then
  if test "$ac_srcdir_defaulted" = yes; then
    { echo "configure: error: can not find sources in $ac_confdir or .." 1>&2; 
exit 1; }

There is no file "expect" in the sources, so I changed the line into:

line 537: ac_unique_file=expect.c

which brought me past this error. 

I save you further details but I couldn't get much further.
I gave up and tried the same with expect-5.42.1 which worked perfect.

BTW, expect-5.43.0-spawn-1.patch goes in for 5.43.0, but has fuzz and offsets, 
which is not the case when patching 5.42.1 with it.


Rainer

PS. I just copied the configure from 5.42.1 into 5.43.0 and it finishes, so it 
seems that indeed expect 5.43.0 is broken.
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