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
==================
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 2.12.0 or later.
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.24.0 or later.
* GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
version 2.2 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.
-
Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
Gnumeric files.
./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
==================
Disable building the Perl module, in case it does not build properly
or you do not need 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.
-
`--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.