Re: building Lua in Ubuntu-12.04

[Enrico Tassi <gares@...>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:36:44PM +0100, martinwguy wrote:
> poking "libreadline-dev" will show you that it does not, in turn,
> require ncurses either.
> 
> The other three build dependencies it names, debhelper, quilt and
> libtool, are required by the Ubuntu (well, Debian) package-building
> framework, not by lua itself.

Ineed you are right. The missing piece of the puzzle is that a patch
to remove "-lncurses" from the link line was added:

  http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/lua5.2/5.2.1-3/no-ncurses-dependency.patch

It was courtesy of Sven Joachim that fixed the very same bug
described on SO:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646165

Cheers
-- 
Enrico Tassi