Re: How to work on the pspp code?

[Friedrich Beckmann]

I could not figure out a way to find the ui files without using

configure --prefix=<sometmpdirectory>
make install 

But I figured out that there is way to use the binary that is produced by

make without install. I use an out of source build directory. In this example

the source tree is in ~/pspp/pspp and the build directory is ~/pspp/build the 

install directory is ~/pspp/install. The configure step is

cd ~/pspp/build

../configure --prefix=$HOME/pspp/install

To use psppire, the ui files have to be installed with

make install

To start psppire with gui from the build directory (you can just run make after a source update).

address@hidden:~/pspp/build$ ./src/ui/gui/psppire 

To start pspp with my local test.sps script: 

address@hidden:~/pspp/build$ ./src/ui/terminal/pspp -o fritz.html ../test.sps

./src/ui/terminal/pspp and ./src/ui/gui/psppire are in fact shell script wrappers which

are produced by libtool. Those scripts can not be run in gdb. 

To start pspp in gdb:

address@hidden:~/pspp/build$ libtool --mode=execute gdb ./src/ui/terminal/pspp 

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Reading symbols from /home/fritz/pspp/build/src/ui/terminal/.libs/lt-pspp...done.

(gdb) run -o fritz.html ../test.sps

Starting program: /home/fritz/pspp/build/src/ui/terminal/.libs/lt-pspp -o fritz.html ../test.sps

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

[Inferior 1 (process 41475) exited normally]

(gdb) 

 

With that procedure you do not need to run the full make install after a source code change but just make.

Friedrich