Re: Problems building lua on Dell Ubuntu 7.04

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

There is lua package in debian/ubuntu that can be done
with :

apt-get install lua5.1

If you must build a newer one, the easiest is :

apt-get build-dep lua5.1

that would pull in the necessary stuff then you can
build it as instructed in lua.

Basically, if you want to build a package(because it
is newer, contains bug fixes etc.) try build-dep
rather than searching around for files.


--- 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
> 



       
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