Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1

[René Rebe <rene@...>]

Hi Mike,

Mike Pall wrote:
> René Rebe wrote:
>   
> > I updated the T2 SDE package, web view at:
> >     
>
> Umm, isn't it a bit early for a distro release? :-)
> But, anyway, thanks for the work!
>
>   
Well, my trust in your coding skills :-) And that's the SVN/trunk of T2, 
so ... there still is the last stable release available in the T2 7.0 
release series:

 http://www.t2-project.org/packages/7.0/luajit.html
> >  http://www.t2-project.org/packages/luajit.html
> >     
>
> The info text at the top of the page is outdated -- you can
> cut'n'paste something from the new web pages, if you want.
>
> And ... maybe I just didn't see it, but if you pass a different
> PREFIX for the Makefile, you need to patch the module paths in
> luaconf.h, too.
>
> The convention from Debian's Lua package is to add both
> /usr/local/... and /usr/... to the module paths (in this order).
> Note that the LuaJIT-version-specific path must be after the
> current-dir path, but before /usr/local/....
>
> Oh, and I haven't yet documented, that LuaJIT can also be compiled
> as an amalgamation with the 'make amalg' target. This reduces
> total code size and speeds up the JIT compiler.
>
> The only drawback is that this causes GCC to consume *a lot* of
> memory during the build. But I assume your build box is big
> enough, so I think it would be a good option for binary distros.
>
> There are some changes to the build process ahead. E.g. I want to
> build a shared library by default. But I need to consult with all
> of the distro maintainers first (I want a *common* name for the
> shared library). You'll get mail sometime in the coming weeks.
>   

Thanks for the notes, I removed the outdated coco reference with the 
"innovative trace compiler et al." note from your site.

Have fun,

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