RE: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> 
> There is no global accepted rule where to install lua.
> I compiled/installed luajit on ARM-Linux and your directory tree becomes
> created in /usr/local/. Thats ok for me. Luadist makefiles does not
> recognize the installed juajit and do not cooperate with it. So it does
> not matter where you pull your module sources: you need to modify the
> makefiles anyway. After playing with Lua for a year on windows & Linux,
> i know there is no widely accepted way to name installed files and no
> widely accepted rule where to store the installed files.
> 
> So if you want to set up your own running lua environment: "Roll your
> Own!" Thats state of the art. And as long each developer / each distro
> keeps creating own rules it will keep being this way.
> 
> Ulrich.

But at least the defaults should work out-of-the-box, no?

Thijs