Re: Compiling apt for rpm with liblua 5.2 - errors

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great fixxer1982@gmail.com once stated:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to recompile apt for rpm with liblua 5.2. Apt is needed as
> package manager for rpm which I'm also trying to update. During 'apt'
> configure process I have several errors. With lua 5.1 version apt package
> builds without any problems.
> 
> Below I provide three links: build log, rpm-tmp file and info about
> building system:
> http://pastebin.com/VpXFB7SP
> http://pastebin.com/q7fkqkwY
> http://pastebin.com/gdPsCPzW
> 
> I kindly ask for any opinion if we can somehow fix the problem. I'm not a
> programmer so the things going harder ...

  From the output, it appears that apt is written for Lua 5.1.  Lua 5.2
makes some incompatible changes and the code (apt in this case) needs to be
updated to compile properly with Lua 5.2.

  How important is it to run Lua 5.2?

  -spc