Re: Build configuration via defines

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 9 July 2018 at 22:44, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> I assume this doesn't occur today as luaconf.h is installed as a
>> header onto end user systems.
>> There are some ways around this:
>>   - some of the defines (such as LUA_ROOT) probably don't need to be
>> available for compiling modules
>>   - for values that do need to exist at runtime, they could be made
>> available through externs, or some new function
>> lua_compilation_flags();
>
> I did not understand your points here.

Lets ignore my assumption then:
Is there a reason that lua isn't configurable by command line defines
instead of editing luaconf.h?