Cannot find output initialization file - SOLUTION

[David Lancashire]

The following error is apparently quite common for those seeking to build 
PSPP 3.0 from scratch on Red-Hat based systems:  Once configured and 
installed, a command to the launch the program yields:


> installation error: Cannot find output initialization file.  Use `-vv' to
>       view search path.       
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Since poking around on the web didn't pull-up any clear solutions, I decided 
to post a quick fix here after digging around the source code to find-out 
what exactly what the problem was.  I hope it saves someone else time in the 
future.  Anyway, here's a brief description of how to get things working....

The "output initialization file" PSPP needs is called "devices" and is stored 
(at least in the 0.3.0 release) in the "config" subdirectory of the directory 
into which you unzip the software package.  In my case that was 
"/home/dave/pspp-0.3.0/config".

According to the manual, one way of fixing this is to simply point the 
environmental variable $STAT_CONFIG_PATH to the directory containing the 
"devices" file.  This didn't work for me.  I have no idea why.

But I still managed to launch the program using the appropriate command-line 
argument:

$ pspp -B/home/dave/pspp-3.0.0/config/

Hope this helps someone,

--dave