Re: Error building LUA 5.2.3 under Ubuntu 12.04

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 07:17:13PM +0200, Alain Aupeix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Having downloaded LUA 5.2.3, I received an error when building under

Lua is not an acronym :)

> lua.c:67:31: erreur fatale: readline/readline.h : Aucun fichier ou
> dossier de ce type
> compilation terminée.

I don't speak French, but I assume this is complaining that it can't
find readline.

Solution: apt-get install libreadline-dev

Alternatively, Ubuntu 14.02 ships with Lua 5.2.0.  If that's good
enough, just: apt-get install lua5.2

B.