1 Installation Instructions for GNU pspp
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4 These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
5 instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
10 Before you install PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisite
11 packages. You may also want to install other packages that enable
12 additional functionality in PSPP.
14 If you do not know whether you have these installed already, you may
15 proceed to "Basic Installation", below. The PSPP configuration
16 process will notify you about required and optional packages that are
17 not present on your system.
19 The following packages are required to install PSPP:
21 * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we
22 recommend GCC, but any modern compilation environment should
23 work. On Microsoft Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and
24 MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work.
26 * The GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/),
27 version 1.6 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL.
29 * Perl (http://www.perl.org/), version 5.005_03 or later. Perl is
30 required during build but not after installation.
32 * iconv, which should be installed as part of a Unix-like system.
33 If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
34 libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
36 The following package is required to enable PSPP's graphing features.
37 If you cannot arrange to install it, you must run `configure' with
40 * libplot, from GNU plotutils
41 (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/).
43 The following packages are required to enable PSPPIRE, the graphical
44 user interface for PSPP. If you cannot install them or do not wish to
45 use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
47 * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
48 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
49 but other versions should be fine.
51 * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
53 * libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
56 Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
59 * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
60 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
61 but other versions should be fine.
63 To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the
64 PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an
65 appropriate pkg-config for the cross-compilation environment.
67 * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
69 * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
71 The following packages are optional.
73 * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it,
74 PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal.
76 * libreadline and libhistory
77 (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Without
78 them, interactive command editing and history features in the
79 text-based user interface will be disabled.
81 * Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/), version 4.7 or
82 later. Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
83 documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
85 * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP
86 to read Postgresql databases.
91 These are installation instructions specific to PSPP (including PSPPIRE,
92 the graphic user interface). These instructions contain the
93 information most commonly needed by people wishing to build the
94 program from source. More detailed information can be found in the
95 generic autoconf manual which is available at
96 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Running-configure-Scripts.html
98 The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
99 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.
101 If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please
102 report the problem to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We will try to figure out
103 how `configure' could work better in your situation for the next
106 The simplest way to compile PSPP is:
108 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
109 `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
111 You may invoke `configure' with --help to see what options are
112 available. The most common of these are listed under "Optional
115 It is best to build and install PSPP in directories whose names do
116 not contain unusual characters such as spaces or single-quotes, due
117 to limitations of the tools involved in the build process.
119 If you installed some of the libraries that PSPP uses in a
120 non-standard location (on many systems, anywhere other than
121 /usr), you may need to provide some special flags to `configure'
122 to tell it where to find them. For example, on GNU/Linux, if you
123 installed some libraries in /usr/local, then you need to invoke
124 it with at least the following options:
126 ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include'
128 Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
129 messages telling which features it is checking for.
131 If `configure' completes successfully, it prints the message
132 "PSPP configured successfully." at the end of its run.
133 Otherwise, it may stop with a list of packages that you must
134 install before PSPP. If it does, you need to install those
135 packages, then re-run this step. Some prerequisites may be
136 omitted by passing a --without-<feature> flag to `configure' (see
137 "Optional Features", below). If you use one of these flags, then
138 the feature that it disables will not be available in your PSPP
141 `configure' may also print a list of packages that you should
142 consider installing. If you install them, then re-run
143 `configure', additional features will be available in your PSPP
146 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
148 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run the self-tests that come
149 with the package. If any of the self-tests fail, please mail
150 bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org with the details, to give the PSPP
151 developers an opportunity to fix the problem in the next release.
153 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files
154 and documentation. Ordinarily you will need root permissions to
155 do this. The "su" and "sudo" commands are common ways to obtain
156 root permissions. If you cannot get root permissions, see
157 "Installation Names", below.
159 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
160 source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
161 files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
162 a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.
164 Compilers and Options
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167 Some systems may require unusual options for compilation or linking that the
168 `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for
169 details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
171 You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
172 by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
175 ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
177 See "Defining Variables", below, for more details.
182 By default, `make install' installs PSPP's commands under
183 `/usr/local/bin', data files under `/usr/local/share', etc. You
184 can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
185 `configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
187 You may wish to install PSPP on a machine where you do not have
188 root permissions. To do so, specify a prefix relative within your
189 home directory, e.g. `--prefix=$HOME' or `--prefix=$HOME/inst'. All
190 PSPP files will be installed under the prefix directory, which `make
191 install' will create if necessary. You may run PSPP directly from the
192 `bin' directory under the prefix directory as, e.g., `~/inst/bin/pspp'
193 under most shells, or for added convenience you can add the
194 installation directory to your PATH by editing a shell startup file
197 You can specify separate installation prefixes for
198 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
199 pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
200 PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
201 Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
203 In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
204 options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
205 kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
206 you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
208 You can cause programs to be installed with an extra prefix or
209 suffix on their names by giving `configure' the option
210 `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
216 Don't compile in support for charts (using libplot). This is
217 useful if your system doesn't have the libplot library.
220 Don't build the PSPPIRE gui. Use this option if you only want to
221 build the command line version of PSPP.
224 Build the gui developer tools. There is no reason to use this
225 option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
228 Optional libraries should normally be detected and the relevant
229 functionality will be built they exist. However, on some poorly
230 configured systems a library may exist, but be totally broken.
231 In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
234 `--enable-anachronistic-dependencies'
235 If you use this option, some of the checks for dependent libraries
236 will be relaxed, permitting configure to succeed when older versions
237 of libraries are detected. Use of this option is not recommended.
238 If you use it, some features may be missing and the build may fail
239 with obscure error messages.
245 Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
246 environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
247 configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
248 variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
249 them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example:
251 ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
253 causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
254 overridden in the site shell script). Here is another example:
256 /bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
258 Here the `CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash' operand causes subsequent
259 configuration-related scripts to be executed by `/bin/bash'.
261 Generic `configure' Options
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264 `configure' also recognizes the following options to control how it operates.
268 Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
272 Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
276 Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
277 traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
282 Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
287 Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
288 suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
289 messages will still be shown).
292 Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
293 `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
295 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
296 `configure --help' for more details.
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