Re: Embed extra search paths into Lua build?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Christopher Tallman once stated:
> Is there an easy way to build Lua with additional package search
> paths? I searched and didn't see any compile-time way to add in extra
> paths to the defaults apart from explicitly editing luaconf.h.
> 
> Ideally, I would be able to add in a preprocessor definition like
> -DLUA_PATH_EXTRA="./modules/?.lua" when compiling and wouldn't have to
> change the actual source (so we can keep the same build process for
> subsequent versions).
> 
> Is something like this already provided? Am I stuck with changing
> LUA_PATH_DEFAULT and LUA_CPATH_DEFAULT in luaconf.h?

  There are the environment variables LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH that can be
used to modify the search paths.

  -spc