Re: Problems building lua on Dell Ubuntu 7.04

["Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@...>]

On 7/5/07, Mason Deaver <mc.deaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings from a new member of the lua list.  I'm in the process of
> learning the language.
>
> Dell recently started selling laptops and desktops with Ubuntu 7.04
> installed (rather than Windows).  I bought one and am using it to
> learn lua.
>
> Lua did not build correctly out of the box on this computer -- not
> lua's fault, but due to an incomplete installation of the GNU compiler
> collection.
>
> In case anyone else tries building lua on a Dell Ubuntu computer, I'm
> writing the steps you'll need to take to get the build (and install)
> to work.
>
> Computer:  Dell Inspiron E1505
> OS:  Ubuntu 7.04
> Lua:  5.1.2
> Compiler:  gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
> [uname -a:  Linux dell 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC
> 2007 i686 GNU/Linux]
>
> 1.  After unpacking lua 5.1.2, I attempted "make linux" as a non-root
> user -- Received errors such as "assert.h, no such file or directory"
> indicating missing headers.
>
> Fix:  Used Ubuntu's Synaptic package manager (under System |
> Administration menu) to install g++ and reinstall gcc.  One of the two
> caused the missing headers to be installed.
>
> 2.  Restart "make linux", eventually received error that
> readline/readline.h and readline/history.h could not be found (no such
> file or directory).  Tried reinstalling readline-common -- didn't
> help.  Tried using Synaptic's search feature to search for "readline"
> -- didn't help.
>
> Fix:  From the command line, "sudo apt-cache search readline" showed a
> line "libreadline5-dev - GNU readline and history libraries,
> development files".  Used Synaptic to install libreadline5-dev.
> Restarted "make linux" and the build completed successfully.  "make
> test" worked.
>
> 3.  To install lua, ran "sudo make install".
>
> Mission accomplished -- now ready to learn lua.
>
> Mason Deaver

Well, A title like ``The way to build lua on xxx'' might be better.
and again, building lua in GNU/Linux is easy. For ubuntu/debian just
tar zxf the tarball
sudo apt-get install build-essential
make linux
done.
and in fact, if you just want to install lua, just use the lua
distribution in the sources:
sudo apt-get install lua5.1