Re: Endless path and environment woes

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 2-Mar-07, at 2:27 PM, Tiogshi Laj wrote:

> I have been failing to get LUA_PATH/package.path working right for 
> nearly two major versions of Lua, now.
> I'm using lua 5.1, from the Debian package on one machine, and a 
> custom-compiled lua 5.1 (using 64-bit signed ints for numbers) on 
> another machine. Both suffer this same problem.
> The console snippet below describes the nature of this error in full, 
> I suspect.
>
> [tiogshi@tiogshi-desktop ~/Programming/sim-lua]$ echo $LUA_PATH
> ;;./?.lc;./?.lua;/home/tiogshi/.lua/?.lua;/home/tiogshi/.lua/?.lc
>
> [tiogshi@tiogshi-desktop ~/Programming/sim-lua]$ lua
> Lua 5.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > print( os.getenv('LUA_PATH') )
> nil
> >
>
>
> Any suggestions?
$ export LUA_PATH