Re: Difficulties with LuaRocks

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 06:15:34PM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
> <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> > but still doesn't help to get a LuaRocks-installed package to work
> > just like a manually-installed one....
> 
> (quick new topic fork)
> 
> That used to be the case, but since LR 2.0 modules are deployed on the
> usual Lua module path, at least if installed as superuser.  It has
> really become quite painless, especially on Debian-based Unix where LR
> is available from apt-get.  (Fine also on Fedora, but you have to mess
> with LUA_(C)PATH anyway to get a 'normal' Lua environment)

Does LuaRocks still pass the wrong parameters to the compiler and thus
fail to build half the packages correctly if you're on something other
than 32 bit x86?  That was a serious bugbear for me, and one of the
reasons I just gave up with it.

What I would find *very* useful is a tool to convert rocks into Debian
packages.  I really don't like having multiple package managers running
on the same system at the same time :)

B.