PSPP-BUG: Re: GUI irresponsive & no history

[Ben Pfaff]

Marc Lijour <address@hidden> writes:

> The GUI is there too but I get nothing when I run descriptive statistics (eg. 
> Frequencies). In fact most of the menus do not respond. I see no error 
> message.

Most of the items under the Analyze menu are not implemented.
The Descriptives command and perhaps a few others should be
available.

Before the next release, we will remove the menu items for the
dialog boxes that have not yet been implemented.

> Also I don't have the history feature enabled in pspp although I have 
> libhistory and libreadline installed.
>
> # ldconfig -p | grep libhistory
>         libhistory.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libhistory.so.5
> # ldconfig -p | grep libreadline
>         libreadline.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libreadline.so.5

Do you have the development versions of those libraries
installed?  That is, if you type something like
        gcc -lreadline -lhistory /dev/null
then do you get an error message like this?
        /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
(One like "undefined reference to `main'" would be normal and
expected, if in fact those libraries are installed.)
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Ben Pfaff 
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