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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 1.8 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.
If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
- * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext).
+ * 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.
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!
-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.
+ * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
+ version 2.2 or later.
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
-Gnumeric files.
+The following packages are optional:
- * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read
+Gnumeric files.
* 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.
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
==================
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
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
==================
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=<distination>".
+ with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=<destination>".
Defining Variables
==================
`configure --help' for more details.
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