[Slackbuilds-users] Lua 5.4 upgrade

[Bob Funk]

I just finished building and testing grilo-plugins and its reverse
dependency gnome-music. Everything appears to build and run as expected.
I'm fine with those changes being pushed for the grilo-plugins slackbuild.

Bob



On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 10:45 AM Cristiano Urban <hedgehog87 at hotmail.it>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thank you for all the work.
>
> Just tested xournalpp, at first sight it builds and runs correctly.
>
> Cheers,
> Cristiano.
>
> Il 27 ott 2024 10:14, "B. Watson" <urchlay at slackware.uk> ha scritto:
>
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024, Diego Borghetti via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think we need to keep lua-lpeg using lua51.
>
> I have it using both. lua 5.4 is required, and lua 5.1 support is
> included in the package if lua51's already installed.
>
> > Neovim uses luajit and last time I checked, that was still using 5.1.
>
> Looks like it builds its own, plus a "lua-compat-5.3" tarball.
>
> > lua-lpeg build fine using 5.4, but you get runtime errors because of the
> mismatch with neovim.
>
> It might be possible to build neovim with lua 5.4. Worth looking into
> at least. Ideally, it shouldn't be tied to an old version of lua.
>
> The "vis" editor also uses lua-lpeg. It builds with lua 5.4 and seems
> to work OK.
>
> > I will pull the branch tonight and do some testing.
>
> Yes, please do. Let me know what you find out.
>
> Worst case scenario: if neovim really needs a lua-lpeg built with
> lua51 support, list them both in REQUIRES, with lua51 appearing before
> lua-lpeg, and mention it in the README. Also maybe add a bit of code
> in the script that actually checks for the lua51 lpeg.so module, and
> stops the build if it's missing.
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