On 31 March 2012 13:54, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
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> I have asked a similar question before but please bear with me - I'm sort of
> making progress but still not quite there...
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> I'm trying to compile a tarball from source. The problem I'm having is
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> ./configure
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> is crashing saying I need cairo1.5 or later and pango1.5 or later. So I
> headed for synaptic, installed them and reran configure. Same error.
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> I've never been too hot on this facet of Linux - do I need to do anything
> else having installed the package libcairo to "register" it such that
> ./configure can see it?
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> I suspect I'm missing a fundamental step here but I can't think what it is.
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> The background to this is I'm trying to run a stats package called pspp.
> The problem is that installing it via synaptic gives me a very old version
> with very little functionality. The developers are doing this deliberately
> and the latest version is available as tarball binary and tarball source.
> The binary version doesn't seem to work (in a much as I get executable files
> which don't run) but according to the mailing list - much more emphasis is
> on building from source.
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> Constructive ideas very welcome
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I just downloaded the git version.
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/pspp.git
then the README.git tells you to get gnulib-tool
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git gnulib
cd pspp
make -f Smake
After that, for me ./configure works.
Maybe they fixed the configure problems with the latest git tree.
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