Re: anybody know a Ubuntu universe maintainer to one-line patch luarocks?

[Hisham <h@...>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:02:43PM +0000, Jay Carlson wrote:
>>
>> Anybody know an Ubuntu universe maintainer? The luarocks "all
>> architecture" package hardcodes LUAROCKS_UNAME_M as "i686", which
>> means CFLAGS won't get -fPIC on x86_64. Simply removing the
>> LUAROCKS_UNAME_M line from the distributed
>> /usr/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/config.lua will fix it.
>
> I'm mildly astonished that this bug is still there.  -fPIC is required
> when building a shared object, regardless of CPU architecture.
>
> Add this to the reasons I don't use LuaRocks.

Because Ubuntu still ships LuaRocks 2.0.2, a version from April 2010?
To your mild astonishment, -fPIC is being added to CFLAGS since
LuaRocks 2.0.3, from September 2010.

-- Hisham