data-out: Reorganize output_Z() to be more easily understood.

[pspp-builds.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f391f56313c11de18de9d9187aa1543c9faf936f..1d63d4b5982add4a7fabfc1b4f1c0e53e4c8fd37 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP:
       If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
       libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
 
+    * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext).
+      GNU libc includes an integrated libintl, so there is no need to
+      separately install libintl on a GNU/Linux system.
+
 The following packages are required to enable PSPP's graphing
 features.  If you cannot arrange to install them, you must run
 `configure' with --without-cairo.
@@ -51,10 +55,6 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
 
     * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
 
-    * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/).  Versions
-      0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
-      but other versions should be fine.
-
 To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the
 PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an
 appropriate pkg-config for the cross-compilation environment.
@@ -85,8 +85,14 @@ The following packages are optional.
       later.  Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
       documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
 
-    * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP 
-      to read Postgresql databases.
+    * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org).  This enables PSPP 
+      to read Postgresql databases.  The tests for the Postgresql
+      interface, but not the Postgresql interface itself, requires the
+      Postgresql server to be installed.
+
+    * The Text::Diff module for Perl (http://cpan.org).  This enables
+      PSPP to test the Perl module more thoroughly.  It is not needed
+      to build or use the Perl module.
 
 Basic Installation
 ==================
@@ -159,6 +165,10 @@ release.
      root permissions.  If you cannot get root permissions, see
      "Installation Names", below.
 
+     Please note:  The `make install' target does NOT install the perl
+     module (see below).  To install the perl module, you must change to
+     the `perl-module' directory and manually run `make install' there.
+
   5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
      source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
      files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
@@ -237,6 +247,10 @@ Optional Features
     In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
     to disregard it.
 
+`--without-perl-module'
+   Disable building the Perl module, in case it does not build properly
+   or you do not need it.
+
 `--enable-anachronistic-dependencies'
    If you use this option, some of the checks for dependent libraries
    will be relaxed, permitting configure to succeed when older versions