X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=INSTALL;h=183487025131b0307a127328dae1b44561dbf7a1;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Flexer;hp=4997fd52b8c57f817c4f2ceb16d01ef30ec7e191;hpb=89ca2311946d399ae677478b78861cfbf63893bc;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4997fd52b8..1834870251 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,9 +1,26 @@ -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. +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 ================== @@ -24,7 +41,7 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP: MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work. * The GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/), - version 1.6 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL. + version 1.8 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL. * Perl (http://www.perl.org/), version 5.005_03 or later. Perl is required during build but not after installation. @@ -33,12 +50,17 @@ 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. + * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext). + GNU libc includes an integrated libintl, so there is no need to + separately install libintl on a GNU/Linux system. + +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. + + * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later. - * libplot, from GNU plotutils - (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/). + * 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 @@ -50,20 +72,22 @@ 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. + * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/) + version 2.2 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. - * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). +Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to write +OpenDocument text (ODT) files: + + * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). + The following packages are optional. * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it, @@ -78,6 +102,15 @@ 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. The tests for the Postgresql + interface, but not the Postgresql interface itself, requires the + Postgresql server to be installed. + + * The Text::Diff module for Perl (http://cpan.org). This enables + PSPP to test the Perl module more thoroughly. It is not needed + to build or use the Perl module. + Basic Installation ================== @@ -101,6 +134,23 @@ release. 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type `./configure' to configure the package for your system. + You may invoke `configure' with --help to see what options are + available. The most common of these are listed under "Optional + Features", below. + + It is best to build and install PSPP in directories whose names do + not contain unusual characters such as spaces or single-quotes, due + to limitations of the tools involved in the build process. + + If you installed some of the libraries that PSPP uses in a + non-standard location (on many systems, anywhere other than + /usr), you may need to provide some special flags to `configure' + to tell it where to find them. For example, on GNU/Linux, if you + installed some libraries in /usr/local, then you need to invoke + it with at least the following options: + + ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' + Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for. @@ -128,8 +178,13 @@ release. 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation. Ordinarily you will need root permissions to - do this; if you cannot get root permissions, see "Installation - Names", below. + do this. The "su" and "sudo" commands are common ways to obtain + root permissions. If you cannot get root permissions, see + "Installation Names", below. + + Please note: The `make install' target does NOT install the perl + module (see below). To install the perl module, you must change to + the `perl-module' directory and manually run `make install' there. 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the @@ -149,7 +204,11 @@ is an example: ./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 ================== @@ -187,18 +246,44 @@ 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 +`--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. + +`--without-perl-module' + 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. + If you use this option, you will probably want to install the pspp + with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=". Defining Variables ==================