[Slackbuilds-users] building luarocks for different lua versions

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On 4/7/22 13:34, Ruben Schuller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2022-04-07 evandrofisico <evandrofisico at gmail.com>:
>
>> Just installed slack 15 and while testing my own slackbuild scripts,
>> I saw that now we have both lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 in the repositories,
>> and all of them beautifully capable of being installed side by side.
>> I heavily use luarocks as my build system for lua, and it is usually
>> configured with a specific lua runtime/version, said configuration
>> happening during build time.
>>
>> I believe I've seen this asked before, but in such cases, what is the
>> best option? to provide a flag on the building script, enabling the
>> user to select which version to build the package for, to provide
>> multiple scripts, or try to detect the installed versions?
>
> I have modified lua-lpeg [1] to be build for every installed lua. As I
> only use lua because some stuff requires it I'm no expert on it or if
> this helps with luarocks.
>
> Cheers
> Ruben
>
> [1]
> https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/tree/libraries/lua-lpeg/lua-lpeg.SlackBuild#n80
>

The problem I've bumped in to with luaXX, is that although you can
fiddle pkg-config, the final program executable will have trouble
finding the correct lua executable.

-Ed