Re: Building Lua 5.3 from Lua.org on FreeBSD

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

Why not call it what it is: LUA_USE_DLOPEN_READLINE? IMHO that's a far
more descriptive label and becomes a descriptive structure that can be
used by any operating system that needs those libraries.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-07-28 16:26 GMT+02:00 Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 5:43 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
>> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>>> Both LUA_USE_LINUX and LUA_USE_MACOSX use the same defines but get
>>>> named separately.
>>>
>>> Just for psychological reasons: it's strange that "make macosx" shows
>>> compilations lines with -DLUA_USE_LINUX.
>>>
>>>> Is there a reason there is no LUA_USE_FREEBSD?
>>>
>>> No special reason, except that we think Linux and MacOSX are the more
>>> common platforms. No offense meant.
>>
>> I run in to this all the time, and I'm not REALLY offended but I try
>> to draw attention to the inconsistency, especially since you went to
>> the trouble to make a target for FreeBSD. It's seems inconsistent to
>> say that showing the word Linux while building on MACOSX is strange
>> but it's okay for FreeBSD.
>
> A mathematician's solution would be to generalize, Linux, Max OSX and
> FreeBSD all being special cases of OSIX (something not quite POSIX,
> get it?) Then LUA_USE_OSIX offends no one and is understood by
> no one. Fair enough?
>