X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=b9fd6b1ceefa3c59dbc44c5aa1c6d78104325f55;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fpivot-table2;hp=f391f56313c11de18de9d9187aa1543c9faf936f;hpb=f73b7385c2ed283394acba4673eb485414a502dd;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f391f56313..b9fd6b1cee 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2,7 +2,34 @@ 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 +======== + +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. + +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 ================== @@ -18,13 +45,13 @@ 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. @@ -33,9 +60,16 @@ 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://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. +`configure' with --without-cairo (in which case you will get no graphing +capability). * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later. @@ -49,29 +83,24 @@ 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 2.12.0 or later. + * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.24.0 - The Gtk+-3.x series will NOT work! - * 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. + * 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. +The following packages are optional: -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read +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 binary to write +Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write OpenDocument text (ODT) files: * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). -The following packages are optional. +Other optional packages: * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it, PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal. @@ -85,8 +114,14 @@ 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. + * 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 ================== @@ -159,6 +194,10 @@ release. 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 files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for @@ -175,9 +214,13 @@ 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 +appropriate pkg-config for the cross-compilation environment. - See "Defining Variables", below, for more details. +See "Defining Variables", below, for more details. Installation Names ================== @@ -237,18 +280,15 @@ Optional Features In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure to disregard 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. +`--without-perl-module' + Disable building the Perl module, in case it does not build properly + or you do not need it. `--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=". + with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=". Defining Variables ================== @@ -307,7 +347,7 @@ 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