Re: package question (luasql example)

["Thomas Blom" <thomasblom@...>]

Tomas,

Thanks once again for detailed information.  I've read up on the original  
package proposal in the archives.

I still am a bit stumped (recall I am new to linux *and* lua) about this:

In building luasql I am linking to the C source compat-5.1.o (built from  
compat-5.1.c) which provides access to a function:

   luaL_module

However, I don't see how compat-5.1.lua is ever coming into play - where  
is it "required" or otherwise loaded?  I edited the package.path and  
package.cpath in this file as you suggested, but in experiment I see that  
my edits don't effect the error message: thus my conclusion that  
compat-5.1.lua is never coming into play.  I put compat-5.1.lua into  
/usr/share/lua50 on my system, because that is where I found compat.lua  
(which I presume was installed when I installed  
lua50/liblua50-dev/liblualib50-dev as a debian packages).

Thanks much for your help.
-thomas