Re: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency

[Ulrich Schmidt <u.sch.zw@...>]

Am 21.05.2014 14:13, schrieb Jay Carlson:
> On May 21, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Am 21.05.2014 13:00 schröbte Thijs Schreijer:
> >
> > The paths relative to the executable are nice for programs embedding Lua, but I'm not sure they are suitable/enough for the standalone Lua interpreter. E.g. I often install lua52.exe and lua51.exe in the same directory (together with some other command line tools), and there may be cases (external package managers, limited privileges) where you can't or don't want to write to the Lua installation directory ...
>
> Which reminds me: should a mingw target be basing these off %HOME% and/or All Users? Maybe I've spent too much time around machines without write access to C:\Program Files and written a few too many "Install for all users, or just me" installers.

Simply dont install into c:\programs.
1. you dont know your makefile is used to compile 32/64bit-exe
2. some/many programs become installed into subfolders
   of c:\ instead c:\programs to avoid the r/o-trouble.
   I did so for my lua for instance.

Ulrich.