Re: luaraocks build of LPeg 12.1 under Lua 5.3.0-alpha fails to run

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 25.08.2014 um 07:55 schröbte Dirk Laurie:
> 2014-08-25 1:05 GMT+02:00 Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net>:
>
> > > Moreover, the <version> parameter on `luarocks install` is not documented
> > > beyond a bare mention by `luarocks help install`. It does not what I have
> > > so far managed to guess.
> >
> > It installs a specific version of a module. What did you guess?
>
> I thought that "luarocks install module 5.2" would install a version
> of the module built with Lua 5.2 options in /usr/local/lib/lua/5.2
> and /usr/local/share/lua/5.2.

No, that would be `luarocks-5.2 install module`.

> I have not been able to discover what it tries to do. Every single
> way I have tried to code the "version" parameter has exactly
> the same result: "Error: No results matching query were found."

Try something like `luarocks install lpeg 0.11-1` ...


Philipp