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:
> >
> > 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.

I think we can assume that Mandriva fixed it, since the original
does not install the (broken) pc file.

Allin Cottrell