Re: PSPP-BUG: Building PSPP 0.8.2 under fedora 19

[John Darrington]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:47:18PM +0100, Alexander Hepp wrote:
     Dear PSPP team,
     
     first of all, let me thank you for offering such a great tool under GNU 
license.

You are welcome.
     
     Let me state, that I am not a Linux expert. 

For the record, PSPP has nothing to do with Linux, except that Linux is just one
kernel that is often used in the operating systems upon which many people choose
to run PSPP.

     Now, the issue is, that our internal hosting provider as switched their 
machines from Solaris to a i686 architecture (having RHEL) and we have no 
access to those machines to install pspp there directly. So we would have to 
provide a version precompiled for that machines. I have tried to have a Fedora 
VM on my machine (using vagrant), and I have pretty much everything configured 
as needed AFAIK (using yum install). All mentioned prerequisites are there.
     
     But the v0.8.2 will still not build.
     
     I am trying with the following configure:
     ./configure --without-gui --without-cairo --enable-relocatable 
--prefix=/vagrant/pspp
     
     as we only need the .sav creation and no gui or graphs. The configure is 
working fine, but as soon as I run
     
     make
     
     I get the following errors:
     
     src/output/ascii.c:154:21: error: field 'fg' has incomplete type
          struct xr_color fg;
                          ^
     src/output/ascii.c:155:21: error: field 'bg' has incomplete type
          struct xr_color bg;
                          ^
     src/output/ascii.c: In function 'ascii_create':
     src/output/ascii.c:265:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 
'parse_color' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        parse_color (d, o, "background-color", "#FFFFFFFFFFFF", &a->bg);
        ^
     Do you have any idea on what I could do to make it build successfully?

This was an oversight in 0.8.2 which manifested itself when --without-cairo was 
used.
It was reported and fixed a few weeks ago.   

You have three options:

1. Install cairo and don't use --without-cairo for configure.
2. Wait for 0.8.3 to be released ; OR
3. Download the snapshot release from 
 
http://benpfaff.org/%7Eblp/pspp-master/20140328030512/source/pspp-0.8.2-g9d160f.tar.gz
     
By the way, you are unlikely to need --enable-relocatable it will only make 
operation slower.

J'

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