These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
+Overview
+========
+
+PSPP uses the standard GNU configuration system. Therefore, if all is well,
+the following simple procedure should work, even on non-GNU systems:
+
+ tar -xzf pspp-*.tar.gz
+ cd pspp-*
+ ./configure
+ make
+ sudo make install
+
+Obviously, you should replace 'pspp-*' in the above, with the name of
+the tarball you are installing. If any part of this process fails, then
+it's likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing
+from your system. Read on to find out how to correct this.
+
Before You Install
==================
* GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
-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.
+ * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
+ version 2.2 or later.
+
Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
Gnumeric files.
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
==================
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
./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
- See "Defining Variables", below, for more details.
+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.
+
+See "Defining Variables", below, for more details.
Installation Names
==================