Re: best linux Distro for Lua programming

[Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@...>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@libero.it> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:32:43AM -0400, Patrick wrote:
>> Wesley Smith wrote:
>> >I'm wondering what error messages you're seeing?  Lua provides quite
>> >detailed messages about all the paths it looked in for a particular
>> >module.
>> >
>> >wes
>> patrick@FatBox:~/unique/lua$ lua curl1.lua
>> lua: curl1.lua:2: module 'curl' not found:
>>   no field package.preload['curl']
>>   no file './curl.lua'
>>   no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/curl.lua'
>>   no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/curl/init.lua'
>>   no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/curl.lua'
>>   no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/curl/init.lua'
>>   no file './curl.so'
>>   no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/curl.so'
>>   no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
>> stack traceback:
>>   [C]: in function 'require'
>>   curl1.lua:2: in main chunk
>>   [C]: ?
>
> These are not the standard paths used by the lua interpreter
> shipped in the Debian/Ubuntu package. You are using the wrong lua
> executable or altering the package.*path variable by hand.

They're the paths from a Lua built and installed from source.
wes