Fwd: Re: configure does not detect missing lua in 5.1

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

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Am 26.03.2015 um 22:39 schrieb Philipp K. Janert:

> I just tried to build cvs-tip (5.1) from source and
> encountered the following issue:
>
> The only Lua packages I had installed were the lua
> libraries (liblua, incl dev versions). This was
> enough to build 5.0, including the Lua terminal.

It shouldn't have been.  But back then there was still a pre-built
version of gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty in the repository, but that's a
violation of the general "no generated files go into revision control"
policy.

Nor does it, IMHO, make terribly much sense for your distro to allow
installing liblua and liblua-dev without having the lua core package, too.

./configure --without-lua might have been the cleaner way out.

> The relevant portions of the ./configure output are:

(Relevant portions of) config.log would offer more insight.

> Should ./configure have detected the missing lua
> interpreter?

It did.  That's the "no" result in the first check.  But that didn't
keep the build from trying to use it.  That's a bug in configure.ac.