-Installation Instructions
-*************************
+PSPP Installation Instructions
+******************************
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc.
+These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
+instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
-This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
-unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
+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.
+
+If you do not know whether you have these installed already, you may
+proceed to "Basic Installation", below. The PSPP configuration
+process will notify you about required and optional packages that are
+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
+ 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 1.6 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.
+
+ * 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/).
+
+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.
+
+ * libplot, from GNU plotutils
+ (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/).
+
+The following packages are required to enable PSPPIRE, the graphical
+user interface for PSPP. If you cannot install them or do not wish to
+use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
+
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.6.0 or later, although we
+ recommend version 2.10.2 or later.
+
+ * libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
+ 2.0 or later.
+
+The following packages are optional.
+
+ * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it,
+ PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal.
+
+ * libreadline and libhistory
+ (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Without
+ them, interactive command editing and history features in the
+ text-based user interface will be disabled.
+
+ * Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/), version 4.7 or
+ later. Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
+ documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
+
+The following packages are optional. They are useful primarily for
+PSPP developers.
+
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). This is
+ needed only to regenerate configure after modifying
+ configure.ac.
Basic Installation
==================
The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
various system-dependent variables used during compilation.
+ If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please
+report the problem to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We will try to figure out
+how `configure' could work better in your situation for the next
+release.
- If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
-to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
-diffs or instructions to pspp-dev@gnu.org so they can
-be considered for the next release.
-
-
-The simplest way to compile PSPP is:
+ The simplest way to compile PSPP is:
1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
- `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're
- using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
- `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
- `configure' itself.
+ `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
messages telling which features it is checking for.
+ When `configure' completes, it may print a list of packages that
+ you must install before PSPP. If it does, you need to install
+ those packages, then re-run this step. Some prerequisites may be
+ omitted by passing a --without-<feature> flag to `configure' (see
+ "Optional Features", below). If you use one of these flags, then
+ the feature that it disables will not be available in your PSPP
+ installation.
+
+ `configure' may also print a list of packages that you should
+ consider installing. If you install them, additional features
+ will be available in your PSPP installation.
+
2. Type `make' to compile the package.
- 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run the self-tests that come with
- the package.
+ 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run the self-tests that come
+ with the package. If any of the self-tests fail, please mail
+ bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org with the details, to give the PSPP
+ developers an opportunity to fix the problem in the next release.
- 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
- documentation. You will need root permissions to do this.
+ 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.
5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
- *Note Defining Variables::, for more details.
-
+ See "Defining Variables", below, for more details.
Installation Names
==================
can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
`configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
+ You may wish to install PSPP on a machine where you do not have
+root permissions. To do so, specify a prefix relative within your
+home directory, e.g. `--prefix=$HOME' or `--prefix=$HOME/inst'. All
+PSPP files will be installed under the prefix directory, which `make
+install' will create if necessary. You may run PSPP directly from the
+`bin' directory under the prefix directory as, e.g., `~/inst/bin/pspp'
+under most shells, or for added convenience you can add the
+installation directory to your PATH by editing a shell startup file
+such as `.bashrc'.
+
You can specify separate installation prefixes for
architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
-overridden in the site shell script). Here is a another example:
+overridden in the site shell script). Here is another example:
/bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
`configure --help' for more details.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free
+Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
+unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
+
SPSS's transformation language. Its statistical procedure support is
currently limited, but growing.
-Instructions for installation are in INSTALL. Before you install
-PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisites:
-
- * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain.
-
- * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later,
- including libgslcblas included with GSL.
-
- * Perl, version 5.005_03 or later. (Perl is required during build
- but not after installation.)
-
- * pkg-config (only if you need to regenerate configure after
- modifying configure.ac).
-
- * 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/).
-
- * Optional: libncurses. Without it, PSPP will assume it is
- running in an 80x25 terminal.
-
- * Optional: libreadline and libhistory. Without them, interactive
- command editing and history features will be disabled.
-
- * Optional: libplot (from GNU plotutils). Without it,
- graphing features will not work. If you do not have it
- installed, you must run `configure' with --without-libplot.
-
- * Optional: GTK+ version 2.6.0 or later (2.10.2 or later is
- recommended), plus libglade 2.0 or later. Without them, the
- GUI will not be built. If you do not have these installed, you
- must run `configure' with --without-gui.
-
- * Optional: Texinfo 4.7 or later, if you want to build the
- documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
+Instructions for PSPP installation are in INSTALL, including a list of
+prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information.
For information on differences from previous versions, please see file
NEWS. Full documentation on PSPP's language can be found in the doc/
Questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org.
Bug reports may be filed at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp
-or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. (We prefer the web-based system
-because it makes it more difficult for us to lose track of bugs.)
+or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We prefer the web-based system
+because it makes it more difficult for us to lose track of bugs, but we
+are happy to hear from users through any means.
The long term goals for PSPP are ambitious. We wish to provide the
following support to users:
an "enhanced" mode in certain cases where PSPP can output
better results that may surprise SPSS users.
- * Friendly textual and graphical interfaces. PSPP does not do
- a good job of this yet.
+ * Friendly textual and graphical interfaces. This release
+ includes the first version of PSPPIRE, the PSPP graphical
+ user interface.
* Attractive output, including graphs, in a variety of human-
and machine-readable formats. PSPP currently produces
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