output: Use Cairo and Pango to draw charts, instead of libplot.

[pspp-builds.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index dc673c441c387fd4f79384eea9b22785aeae7101..686109e48702d59413f1862e1e360acc50cbc64c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -33,12 +33,13 @@ 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/).
 
-The following package is required to enable PSPP's graphing features.
-If you cannot arrange to install it, you must run `configure' with
---without-libplot.
+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.
 
-    * libplot, from GNU plotutils
-      (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/).
+    * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later.
+
+    * Pango (http://www.pango.org/), version 1.22 or later.
 
 The following packages are required to enable PSPPIRE, the graphical
 user interface for PSPP.  If you cannot install them or do not wish to
@@ -50,9 +51,6 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
 
     * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
 
-    * libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
-      2.6 or later.
-
 Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
 Gnumeric files.
 
@@ -212,14 +210,17 @@ suffix on their names by giving `configure' the  option
 Optional Features
 =================
 
-`--without-libplot'
-    Don't compile in support for charts (using libplot).  This is
-    useful if your system doesn't have the libplot library.
+`--without-cairo'
+    Don't compile in support for charts (using Cairo and Pango).  This
+    is useful if your system lacks these libraries.
 
 `--without-gui'
     Don't build the PSPPIRE gui.  Use this option if you only want to
     build the command line version of PSPP.
 
+    Cairo and Pango required to build the GUI, so --without-cairo
+    implies --without-gui.
+
 `--with-gui-tools'
     Build the gui developer tools.  There is no reason to use this
     option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
@@ -237,7 +238,12 @@ Optional Features
    of libraries are detected.   Use of this option is not recommended.
    If you use it, some features may be missing and the build may fail
    with obscure error messages.
-   
+
+`--enable-relocatable'
+   This option is useful for building a package which can be installed
+   into an arbitrary directory and freely copied to any other directory.
+   If you use this option, you will probably want to install the pspp
+   with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=<distination>".
 
 Defining Variables
 ==================