From: John Darrington Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:25:28 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Added a summary introduction to INSTALL, to try to make it less frightening to inexpe... X-Git-Tag: v0.7.9~142 X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b18640dc027ea0b4f93297d6e640304c787097cb;p=pspp-builds.git Added a summary introduction to INSTALL, to try to make it less frightening to inexperienced users --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3e9456ef..18348702 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -4,6 +4,23 @@ Installation Instructions for GNU pspp These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP. +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. 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. + Before You Install ================== @@ -59,10 +76,6 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui. 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. - Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read Gnumeric files. @@ -191,7 +204,11 @@ is an example: ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix - See "Defining Variables", below, for more details. +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. Installation Names ==================