Re: Cannot build gnuplot4.5 with lua terminal..

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 28 November 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 28 November 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what's going on under cygwin, but this is a bit
> > > tricky on Linux.  Gnuplot uses pkg-config to test for lua, but a
> > > stock installation of lua-5.1.4 using "make linux install" does
> > > not install the lua.pc file.
> >
> > Eh?  It installs normally for me.  The *.pc ends up here:
> >    /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc
> >
> > lua -v
> > Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> 
> Tarball from http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
> 
> allin@myrtle:~/lua-5.1.4$ make linux
> [no errors, all looks fine]
> allin@myrtle:~/lua-5.1.4$ make -n linux install
> cd src && make linux
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/allin/lua-5.1.4/src'
> make all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_LINUX MYLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline
> -lhistory -lncurses"
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/allin/lua-5.1.4/src'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/allin/lua-5.1.4/src'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/allin/lua-5.1.4/src'
> cd src && mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/local/include
> /usr/local/lib /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/share/lua/5.1
> /usr/local/lib/lua/5.1
> cd src && install -p -m 0755 lua luac /usr/local/bin
> cd src && install -p -m 0644 lua.h luaconf.h lualib.h lauxlib.h
> ../etc/lua.hpp /usr/local/include
> cd src && install -p -m 0644 liblua.a /usr/local/lib
> cd doc && install -p -m 0644 lua.1 luac.1 /usr/local/man/man1
> 
> And that's it; no .pc file.  If you got something to go into
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig (note, not under /usr/local, which is the
> default), you're doing something special.

I started with a distribution source package:
  lua-5.1.4-6mdv2009.1.src.rpm

I suppose Mandriva may have fixed it, although I don't see a notice to 
that effect.