Added a summary introduction to INSTALL, to try to make it less frightening to inexpe...

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3e9456ef3507893e69018fda27b82b5851999f3d..183487025131b0307a127328dae1b44561dbf7a1 100644 (file)
--- 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.
 
 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
 ==================
 
 Before You Install
 ==================
 


@@ -59,10 +76,6 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
       version 2.2 or later.
 
 
       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.
 
 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
 
 
      ./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
 ==================
 
 Installation Names
 ==================