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

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

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.

Allin Cottrell