1 Prerequisites for Building PSPP from Git
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4 To build this project from the sources direct from the Git archive,
5 you must install the prerequisites listed in README, plus the
8 * Autoconf 2.60 (or later).
10 * Automake 1.10 (or later).
12 * Gettext 0.17 (or later).
14 * GNU M4 1.4.9 (or later).
16 * pkg-config 0.21 (or later).
18 * gperf 3.0.1 (or later).
20 * Gnulib (see below for details).
22 * libtool 1.5.22 (or later).
24 * Texinfo 4.7 or later, to build the documentation.
26 After you install PSPP's prerequisites, you must obtain a copy of
27 Gnulib, then bootstrap the tree, as described in the sections below.
28 After that, you may follow the procedure described in INSTALL.
33 This version of PSPP should work with the Gnulib commit shown below.
34 Gnulib does not maintain a stable API or ABI, so it is possible that
35 PSPP will not work with older or newer versions of Gnulib.
37 commit fb6aa6ad7dd950729f4e3349d89d4ad82761af61
38 Author: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
39 Date: Mon Aug 15 22:33:25 2011 -0700
41 relocatable-prog: fix link error
43 * modules/relocatable-prog (configure.ac) [RELOCATABLE]: Also
44 invoke AC_LIBOBJ([relocatable]). This invocation was previously
45 in the gl_RELOCATABLE_LIBRARY macro. That invocation was moved
46 into modules/relocatable-lib without noticing that
47 modules/relocatable-prog also invokes gl_RELOCATABLE_LIBRARY and
48 also needs to build relocatable.c.
50 To clone Gnulib into a directory named "gnulib" using Git, and then
51 check out this particular commit, run these commands:
52 git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git gnulib
55 where $COMMIT should be replaced by the commit number listed above
56 (usually it is sufficient to just type the first 6 or so digits).
58 If you do not have Git installed, then you may alternately download
59 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=snapshot;h=$COMMIT;sf=tgz
60 where $COMMIT is, again, at least the first few digits of the commit
61 number listed above. This download will yield a tar.gz file that you
62 may extract with "gunzip" and "tar" to yield identical results.
67 Once you have Gnulib installed, PSPP must be "bootstrapped" using the
70 If you checked Gnulib out in a directory named `gnulib' at the same
71 level as PSPP, then this is sufficient. Otherwise, provide the
72 location of GNULIB on the `make' command line:
73 make -f Smake GNULIB=/gnulib/base/directory/name
75 After executing Smake, follow the procedure described in INSTALL to
76 build and install PSPP. On some systems this may be as simple as:
80 Once PSPP is built, you may run its self-tests with:
82 or for a more thorough test: