-PSPP Installation Instructions
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+Installation Instructions for GNU pspp
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These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
but other versions should be fine.
- * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.8.0 or later, although we
- recommend version 2.10.2 or later.
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
* libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
2.6 or later.
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.
+
* zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
* libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
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.
+
Basic Installation
==================
Build the gui developer tools. There is no reason to use this
option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
+`--without-lib{xx}'
+ Optional libraries should normally be detected and the relevant
+ functionality will be built they exist. However, on some poorly
+ configured systems a library may exist, but be totally broken.
+ In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
+ to disregard 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
+ 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.
+
Defining Variables
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