Re: Building Lua 5.3 from Lua.org on FreeBSD

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Yes, that's the patch! I was also surprised when I looked at it and
>> checked the site again in case it was a wrong link. I performed the
>> change manually in vim and Lua compiled. I reversed the change to
>> prove that it wasn't just me. Lua does not compile without this
>> change!
>
> But it should. As already pointed out in this discusssion, the bug
> in this case is in a header file from FreeBSD, not in Lua.

It builds correctly on amd64 (x64) without the patch, and did build on
amrv6 not long ago. Thank you I will take it up on the FreeBSD side of
things. The change is easy enough to include in the ports makefile.

Russell