Re: Packaging Lua libraries

[pancake <pancake@...>]

i've packaged some lua libraries on pkgsrc.

pkgsrc works on all unixlike OSes. I test that on Fbsd,NetBSD and linux.

Please take a look on:

pkgsrc-wip.sf.net
www.pkgsrc.org
www.NetBSD.org

[0:/usr/pkgsrc/wip]$ ls|grep lua
lua-expat
lua-pgsql
luacheia
luaposix
luasocket



On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:36:54 -0300
Andre Nathan <andre@digirati.com.br> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:08, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> > Probably supposed to say $PREFIX/lib/lua5 here?
> 
> Yeah, I sent an email correcting it, but I wasn't fast enough :)
> 
> > Also, maybe it should
> > be lua50, lua-5.0 or whatever instead as (?) Lua 5.1 is incompatible?
> 
> Can anyone confirm that? Will 5.1 really be incompatible? If so,
> I believe that having /usr/lib/lua/{5.0,5.1} would be nicer, to avoid
> too many directories under /usr/lib.
> 
> > There are two kinds of version numbers for libraries, the "package version"
> > and "API version". For example, the main Lua library under Debian is
> 
> I believe the "API version" is a Debian-specific thing. At least on
> Mandrake, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, and IIRC Gentoo, what I have is
> "liblua.so.$version.0", with a "liblua.so" symlink.
> 
> 
> Andre
> 
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