-PSPP Installation Instructions
-******************************
+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
==================
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 1.6 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.
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://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/).
- * 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 (in which case you will get no graphing
+capability).
+
+ * 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
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!
+
+ * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
+ version 2.2 or later.
- * libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
- 2.6 or later.
+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.
- * 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.
+ * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
- * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+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.
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
==================
1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
`./configure' to configure the package for your system.
+ You may invoke `configure' with --help to see what options are
+ available. The most common of these are listed under "Optional
+ Features", below.
+
+ It is best to build and install PSPP in directories whose names do
+ not contain unusual characters such as spaces or single-quotes, due
+ to limitations of the tools involved in the build process.
+
+ If you installed some of the libraries that PSPP uses in a
+ non-standard location (on many systems, anywhere other than
+ /usr), you may need to provide some special flags to `configure'
+ to tell it where to find them. For example, on GNU/Linux, if you
+ installed some libraries in /usr/local, then you need to invoke
+ it with at least the following options:
+
+ ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include'
+
Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
messages telling which features it is checking for.
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.
+
+ 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
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
==================
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
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-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=<destination>".
+
Defining Variables
==================
`configure --help' for more details.
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