Re: require and -lname require LUA_COMPAT_LOADLIB

[Claude Marinier <claude.marinier@...>]

Lua 5.1.1 fixes this problem. My appologies for not finding 5.1.1 earlier

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Claude Marinier wrote:
> Built Lua 5.1 on Debian testing on Compaq DeskPro then built random 
> module from LuaForge. The build of random fails when it tries to run the 
> test script. Here is the output.
>
>  make
>  cc -I/usr/local/include -ansi -pedantic -Wall -O2 -c -o lrandom.o lrandom.c
>  cc -o lrandom.so -shared lrandom.o
>  /usr/local/bin/lua -lrandom test.lua
>  /usr/local/bin/lua: ./random.lua:7: attempt to call global 'loadlib' (a nil 
> value)
>  make: *** [test] Error 1
>
> Modified lua-5.1/src/luaconf.h to define LUA_COMPAT_LOADLIB.
>
>  /*
>  @@ LUA_COMPAT_LOADLIB controls compatibility about global loadlib.
>  ** CHANGE it to undefined as soon as you do not need a global 'loadlib'
>  ** function (the function is still available as 'package.loadlib').
>  */
>  #define LUA_COMPAT_LOADLIB
>
> The test script now works.
>
> The comment implies that we may need a global 'loadlib' for a while and that 
> we can do without it later.
>
> Is LUA_COMPAT_LOADLIB required with random because it is not compatible with 
> Lua 5.1 or did I misunderstand the comment and the purpose of the 
> LUA_COMPAT_LOADLIB macro? If it's the first, how can random be made 
> compatible? If it's the latter, please explain the meaning of the macro.

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