Re: PSPP-BUG: PSPP CVS Build

[Ben Pfaff]

Greg Hunt <address@hidden> writes:

> Is the build known to be broken at the moment?  I got this on Cygwin 
> when configuring the current CVS sources.  I get other script problems 
> on Solaris, but I assume that Solaris is still broken as suggested in 
> the notes.
>
> ./configure: line 11450: syntax error near unexpected token `GTK,'
> ./configure: line 11450: `      PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0)'

That indicates that the pkg-config module that implements
PKG_CHECK_MODULES is not available on your system.  You will need
to install it before you run "autoconf".

I guess we should add this to the prerequisites.

> I was hoping to use PSPP for some web log performance analysis, but the 
> problems with long string variables make that difficult.

What kind of problem with long string variables have you
encountered?  Is there a bug report filed?
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