Re: Compiling apt for rpm with liblua 5.2 - errors

["fixxer1982@..." <fixxer1982@...>]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:00:57 +1000
Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:

> On 26 April 2016 at 16:10, fixxer1982@gmail.com <fixxer1982@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 ...
> >
> > Best regards!
> >
> > --
> > <fixxer1982@gmail.com>
> >
> 
> The actual error is:
> 
> libtool: compile:  x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I../include -I../include/apt-pkg -I.. -I./include -I. -DWITH_POSIX
> -I/usr/include/libxml2 -D_RPM_4_4_COMPAT -O3 -ffast-math -march=native
> -c lrexlib.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libluaext_la-lrexlib.o
> lrexlib.c:164:14: error: unknown type name 'luaL_reg'
>  static const luaL_reg posixmeta[] = {
> 
> This indicates that 'luaext' uses `luaL_reg`, which was part of lua
> 5.1, but removed in 5.2.
> You'll need to rewrite parts of luaext to use the new lua APIs.
> 

I can not, I'm not able to produce a patch. I've decided to stay with lua5.1.

Thank you all for responses. Thread is solved.
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