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 PSPP uses the standard GNU configuration system. Therefore, if all is well,
11 the following simple procedure should work, even on non-GNU systems:
13 tar -xzf pspp-*.tar.gz
19 Obviously, you should replace 'pspp-*' in the above, with the name of
20 the tarball you are installing.
22 In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED!
25 If any part of the above process fails, then it is
26 likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing
27 from your system. The following paragraphs contain highly detailed
28 information which will help you fix this.
34 Before you install PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisite
35 packages. You may also want to install other packages that enable
36 additional functionality in PSPP.
38 If you do not know whether you have these installed already, you may
39 proceed to "Basic Installation", below. The PSPP configuration
40 process will notify you about required and optional packages that are
41 not present on your system.
43 The following packages are required to install PSPP:
45 * A C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we
46 recommend GCC, but any modern compilation environment should
47 work. On Microsoft Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and
48 MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work.
50 * The GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/),
51 version 1.8 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL.
53 * Perl (http://www.perl.org/), version 5.005_03 or later. Perl is
54 required during build but not after installation.
56 * iconv, which should be installed as part of a Unix-like system.
57 If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
58 libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
60 * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext).
61 GNU libc includes an integrated libintl, so there is no need to
62 separately install libintl on a GNU/Linux system.
64 * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
66 The following packages are required to enable PSPP's graphing
67 features. If you cannot arrange to install them, you must run
68 `configure' with --without-cairo (in which case you will get no graphing
71 * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.12 or later.
73 * Pango (http://www.pango.org/), version 1.22 or later.
75 The following packages are required to enable PSPPIRE, the graphical
76 user interface for PSPP. If you cannot install them or do not wish to
77 use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
79 * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
80 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
81 but other versions should be fine.
83 * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.4.0 or later.
85 * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
86 version 3.4.0 or later.
88 The following packages are optional:
90 Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read
93 * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
95 Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write
96 OpenDocument text (ODT) files:
98 * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
100 Other optional packages:
102 * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it,
103 PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal.
105 * libreadline and libhistory
106 (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Without
107 them, interactive command editing and history features in the
108 text-based user interface will be disabled.
110 * Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/), version 4.7 or
111 later. Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
112 documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
114 * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP
115 to read Postgresql databases. The tests for the Postgresql
116 interface, but not the Postgresql interface itself, requires the
117 Postgresql server to be installed.
119 * The Text::Diff module for Perl (http://cpan.org). This enables
120 PSPP to test the Perl module more thoroughly. It is not needed
121 to build or use the Perl module.
126 These are installation instructions specific to PSPP (including PSPPIRE,
127 the graphic user interface). These instructions contain the
128 information most commonly needed by people wishing to build the
129 program from source. More detailed information can be found in the
130 generic autoconf manual which is available at
131 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Running-configure-Scripts.html
133 The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
134 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.
136 If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please
137 report the problem to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We will try to figure out
138 how `configure' could work better in your situation for the next
141 The simplest way to compile PSPP is:
143 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
144 `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
146 You may invoke `configure' with --help to see what options are
147 available. The most common of these are listed under "Optional
150 It is best to build and install PSPP in directories whose names do
151 not contain unusual characters such as spaces or single-quotes, due
152 to limitations of the tools involved in the build process.
154 If you installed some of the libraries that PSPP uses in a
155 non-standard location (on many systems, anywhere other than
156 /usr), you may need to provide some special flags to `configure'
157 to tell it where to find them. For example, on GNU/Linux, if you
158 installed some libraries in /usr/local, then you need to invoke
159 it with at least the following options:
161 ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include'
163 Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
164 messages telling which features it is checking for.
166 If `configure' completes successfully, it prints the message
167 "PSPP configured successfully." at the end of its run.
168 Otherwise, it may stop with a list of packages that you must
169 install before PSPP. If it does, you need to install those
170 packages, then re-run this step. Some prerequisites may be
171 omitted by passing a --without-<feature> flag to `configure' (see
172 "Optional Features", below). If you use one of these flags, then
173 the feature that it disables will not be available in your PSPP
176 `configure' may also print a list of packages that you should
177 consider installing. If you install them, then re-run
178 `configure', additional features will be available in your PSPP
181 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
183 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run the self-tests that come
184 with the package. If any of the self-tests fail, please mail
185 bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org with the details, to give the PSPP
186 developers an opportunity to fix the problem in the next release.
188 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files
189 and documentation. Ordinarily you will need root permissions to
190 do this. The "su" and "sudo" commands are common ways to obtain
191 root permissions. If you cannot get root permissions, see
192 "Installation Names", below.
194 Please note: The `make install' target does NOT install the perl
195 module (see below). To install the perl module, you must change to
196 the `perl-module' directory and manually run `make install' there.
198 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
199 source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
200 files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
201 a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.
203 Compilers and Options
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206 Some systems may require unusual options for compilation or linking that the
207 `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for
208 details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
210 You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
211 by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
214 ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
216 To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the
217 PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an
218 appropriate pkg-config for the cross-compilation environment.
220 See "Defining Variables", below, for more details.
225 By default, `make install' installs PSPP's commands under
226 `/usr/local/bin', data files under `/usr/local/share', etc. You
227 can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
228 `configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
230 You may wish to install PSPP on a machine where you do not have
231 root permissions. To do so, specify a prefix relative within your
232 home directory, e.g. `--prefix=$HOME' or `--prefix=$HOME/inst'. All
233 PSPP files will be installed under the prefix directory, which `make
234 install' will create if necessary. You may run PSPP directly from the
235 `bin' directory under the prefix directory as, e.g., `~/inst/bin/pspp'
236 under most shells, or for added convenience you can add the
237 installation directory to your PATH by editing a shell startup file
240 You can specify separate installation prefixes for
241 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
242 pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
243 PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
244 Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
246 In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
247 options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
248 kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
249 you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
251 You can cause programs to be installed with an extra prefix or
252 suffix on their names by giving `configure' the option
253 `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
259 Don't compile in support for charts (using Cairo and Pango). This
260 is useful if your system lacks these libraries.
263 Don't build the PSPPIRE gui. Use this option if you only want to
264 build the command line version of PSPP.
266 Cairo and Pango required to build the GUI, so --without-cairo
267 implies --without-gui.
270 Build the gui developer tools. There is no reason to use this
271 option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
274 Optional libraries should normally be detected and the relevant
275 functionality will be built they exist. However, on some poorly
276 configured systems a library may exist, but be totally broken.
277 In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
280 `--without-perl-module'
281 Disable building the Perl module, in case it does not build properly
282 or you do not need it.
284 `--enable-relocatable'
285 This option is useful for building a package which can be installed
286 into an arbitrary directory and freely copied to any other directory.
287 If you use this option, you will probably want to install the pspp
288 with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=<destination>".
293 Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
294 environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
295 configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
296 variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
297 them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example:
299 ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
301 causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
302 overridden in the site shell script). Here is another example:
304 /bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
306 Here the `CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash' operand causes subsequent
307 configuration-related scripts to be executed by `/bin/bash'.
309 Generic `configure' Options
310 ===========================
312 `configure' also recognizes the following options to control how it operates.
316 Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
320 Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
324 Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
325 traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
330 Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
335 Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
336 suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
337 messages will still be shown).
340 Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
341 `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
343 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
344 `configure --help' for more details.
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