-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.
user interface for PSPP. If you cannot install them or do not wish to
use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
- * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/).
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
+ 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.
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
+Gnumeric files.
+
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
+ 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/).
+
The following packages are optional.
* libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it,
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
==================