X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=25e9a6623604dae4f8699fe0ea3d6113405552a5;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fspv3;hp=cbe5fd2b2c586fb5f9d23e3c28651fb7f934978f;hpb=c2d5b2ec4446a01578530645f4ff354b0a279338;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index cbe5fd2b2c..25e9a66236 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Installation Instructions for GNU pspp ************************************** These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation -instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP. +instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP. These instructions +apply only to people wishing to build and install PSPP from source. Overview ======== @@ -17,16 +18,29 @@ the following simple procedure should work, even on non-GNU systems: 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. +the tarball you are installing. + +In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED! + + + + +If any part of the above process fails, then it is +likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing +from your system. The following paragraphs contain highly detailed +information which will help you fix this. + Before You Install ================== Before you install PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisite packages. You may also want to install other packages that enable -additional functionality in PSPP. +additional functionality in PSPP. Please note, if you are installing +any of the libararies mentioned below using pre-prepared binary +packages provided by popular GNU/Linux vendors, you may need to ensure +that you install the "development" versions (normally postfixed with +-dev or -devel). If you do not know whether you have these installed already, you may proceed to "Basic Installation", below. The PSPP configuration @@ -35,30 +49,39 @@ not present on your system. The following packages are required to install PSPP: - * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we + * A C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we recommend GCC, but any modern compilation environment should work. On Microsoft Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work. * The GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/), - version 1.8 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL. + version 1.13 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. + * Python (https://python.org/), version 2.7. Some tests require + Python; if it is missing, those tests will be skipped. PSPP + does not otherwise require Python. + * iconv, which should be installed as part of a Unix-like system. If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/). - * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext). + * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext). GNU libc includes an integrated libintl, so there is no need to separately install libintl on a GNU/Linux system. + * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). + + * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). + 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. +`configure' with --without-cairo (in which case you will get no graphing +capability). - * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later. + * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.12 or later. * Pango (http://www.pango.org/), version 1.22 or later. @@ -70,28 +93,18 @@ 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 2.16.0 or later. + * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.18.0 or later. + It has been reported that versions prior to 3.22.x give problems, + so a recent version is recommended. * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/) - version 2.2 or later. - - -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read -Gnumeric files. - - * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). + version 3.4.0 or later. - * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). - -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to write -OpenDocument text (ODT) files: - - * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). + * GNU Spread Sheet Widget (http://www.gnu.org/software/ssw) -The following packages are optional. +The following packages are optional: - * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it, - PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal. +Other optional packages: * libreadline and libhistory (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Without @@ -202,7 +215,7 @@ details on some of the pertinent environment variables. by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here is an example: - ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix + ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O0 LIBS=-lposix To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an @@ -276,7 +289,7 @@ Optional Features 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=". + with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=". Defining Variables ================== @@ -335,7 +348,7 @@ Generic `configure' Options `configure --help' for more details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives