Re: makefiles in 5.1

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

They may be useful, but not necessarily in downstream packaging.

At least, the way I see it, packaging calls for some sed'ding of  
Makefile and probably lua_conf.h, and then the normal compilation.  
Any packaging starts by a clean tgz, fresh from ftp.

-asko

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo kirjoitti 18.1.2006 kello 2.13:

> Since 5.0, the top-level Makefile contains echo, lecho, and pecho  
> targets
> that were supposed to be helpful for downstream packagers. For  
> instance,
> make echo in Lua 5.1 outputs the text below. (make lecho outputs this
> data as a Lua program.) Should we keep these targets?  Are they  
> useful?
> Does anyone use them? Will anyone use them, now that they know they  
> exist? :-)
> --lhf
>
> % make echo
>
> These are the parameters currently set in src/Makefile to build Lua  
> 5.1:
>
> PLAT = none
> CC = gcc
> CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall
> AR = ar rcu
> RANLIB = ranlib
> RM = rm -f
> MYCFLAGS =
> MYLDFLAGS =
> MYLIBS =
>
> These are the parameters currently set in Makefile to install Lua 5.1:
>
> PLAT = none
> INSTALL_TOP = /usr/local
> INSTALL_BIN = /usr/local/bin
> INSTALL_INC = /usr/local/include
> INSTALL_LIB = /usr/local/lib
> INSTALL_MAN = /usr/local/man/man1
> INSTALL_EXEC = cp
> INSTALL_DATA = cp
>
> See also src/luaconf.h .