X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=INSTALL;h=4ccbb78b20596d2b2024b8691a5f85872308c112;hb=8ad8e840e7047d4ca4784009c380b5ec49942bb4;hp=db1decf2a7dd0733c30c7746d07397d04474e24b;hpb=23ba9ad6be346645f38f1dc662d9a2f32f0cc051;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index db1decf2a7..4ccbb78b20 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ +Release Notes +============= + PSPP has the following library dependencies; * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later. - * The GNU multiprecision arithmetic library (libgmp). - * libplot from GNU plotutils is optional. Without it, the new graphing features will not work. If you do not have it installed, you must run `configure' with --without-libplot. @@ -15,6 +16,38 @@ PSPP also has the following build dependencies: * perl 5.6 or later. + * GNU diff, for `make check' to complete properly. (We intend to + eliminate this dependency in a later release.) + +A few system-specific issues have been noted. These may be PSPP bugs +or system bugs; we have not yet been able to track them down precisely: + + * On Solaris, one or more tests may fail `make check'. We have + only seen this reported on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.4.2. Our + reporter says that turning off optimization (with -O0) at least + masked the symptoms. + + * On Mac OS X, GCC 4.0.0 build 4061 has been observed to cause + some tests to fail. Later builds should work fine. + +Finally, a few extra notes: + + * The Sun WorkShop compiler will not work out of the box in this + release. Use GCC instead. We will fix this for the next + release. + + * GCC 4.x reports an inordinate number of warnings for this + release. You may ignore these for now. We will fix these for + the next release. + + + + + + + + + Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.