Added a --enable-anachronistic-dependencies flag to configure, which allows psppire...

[pspp-builds.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index dd27803865ef9c166d671977a69db93c0e6343fb..c1a48ef8f5e8606508f0b30a931b7e7fb8b61944 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-PSPP Installation Instructions
-******************************
+Installation Instructions for GNU pspp
+**************************************
 
 These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
 instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
       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.
@@ -79,6 +78,9 @@ The following packages are optional.
       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
 ==================
 
@@ -200,6 +202,20 @@ Optional Features
     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
 ==================