X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=5e486ebc87962dd9d6aa71a7955ab3191939a95f;hb=dad7c7dcd682f51141da4dc13ee6f75ff3f304c6;hp=093138be4572ceeef3b087e08943e2dc7267fa6c;hpb=fe7fdc98b6967092d02a98227080865e0c8e22ec;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 093138be45..5e486ebc87 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 ======== @@ -22,6 +23,8 @@ 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 @@ -33,7 +36,11 @@ 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 @@ -48,7 +55,7 @@ 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 1.8 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. @@ -57,16 +64,18 @@ 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/). - * 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/). + 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 (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. @@ -78,19 +87,16 @@ 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. However - it must be Gtk+ 2.something - The Gtk+-3.x series will NOT work! + * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.4.0 or later. * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/) - version 2.2 or later. + version 3.4.0 or later. The following packages are optional: Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read Gnumeric files. - * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). - * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write @@ -212,7 +218,7 @@ 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