work on pivot table and FREQUENCIES usage

[pspp] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e687c55114b6d45690a3a48965225dcf92a6bbb7..6654e90bb52507a395ac9be49812e69529f3e41a 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ 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 1.6 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL.
+      version 1.8 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.
@@ -33,12 +33,17 @@ 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/).
 
-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.
+    * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext).
+      GNU libc includes an integrated libintl, so there is no need to
+      separately install libintl on a GNU/Linux system.
 
-    * libplot, from GNU plotutils
-      (http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/).
+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.
+
+    * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later.
+
+    * Pango (http://www.pango.org/), version 1.22 or later.
 
 The following packages are required to enable PSPPIRE, the graphical
 user interface for PSPP.  If you cannot install them or do not wish to
@@ -50,21 +55,19 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
 
     * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
 
-    * libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
-      2.6 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.
 
-    * 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.
+    * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
 
-      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.
+    * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).  
 
-    * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to write
+OpenDocument text (ODT) files:
 
     * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).  
 
@@ -152,8 +155,9 @@ release.
 
   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.
+     do this.  The "su" and "sudo" commands are common ways to obtain
+     root permissions.  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
@@ -211,14 +215,17 @@ suffix on their names by giving `configure' the  option
 Optional Features
 =================
 
-`--without-libplot'
-    Don't compile in support for charts (using libplot).  This is
-    useful if your system doesn't have the libplot library.
+`--without-cairo'
+    Don't compile in support for charts (using Cairo and Pango).  This
+    is useful if your system lacks these libraries.
 
 `--without-gui'
     Don't build the PSPPIRE gui.  Use this option if you only want to
     build the command line version of PSPP.
 
+    Cairo and Pango required to build the GUI, so --without-cairo
+    implies --without-gui.
+
 `--with-gui-tools'
     Build the gui developer tools.  There is no reason to use this
     option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
@@ -230,13 +237,22 @@ Optional Features
     In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
     to disregard it.
 
+`--without-perl-module'
+   Disable building the Perl module, in case it does not build properly
+   or you do not need 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.
-   
+
+`--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=<distination>".
 
 Defining Variables
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