Re: ping : bug #1800 (configure : lua detection is strange when liblua is present but cannot be detected )

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: sfeam
> To: gnuplot-beta Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/5/29, Sun 13:49
> Subject: Re: ping : bug #1800 (configure : lua detection is strange when liblua is present but cannot be detected )
> 
> On Sunday, 29 May 2016 05:22:30 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1800/
>> 
>>  The above seemed to a long lived bug.
>>  I am waiting the response to the bug ticket.
> 
> This does not look like a bug to me.
> 
> The configure script is telling you that the lua library is present, 
> but it can not find the matching lua.h file.
> There are 2 possible reasons.
> 
> 
> 1) It could be because you have not  installed the  *-devel version of the 
> library
> to match the library itself
> 
> On my machine that is liblua5.2-5.2.3  and  lib64lua-devel-5.2.3 
> but you may have a different version.  (The config output you show
> mentions lua5.1).
> 
> 2) Alternatively, you may correctly have the lua.h file installed but it is in 
> a directory not on the default search path.
> That is why the script output suggests
>    configure: WARNING: please add path to lua.h to CPPFLAGS in Makefile
> 
> Of course as you say it is also possible to configure --without-lua
> but then you will not be able to use the tikz terminal.
> It would be better to install or identify the lua.h file.
> 
>     Ethan


Thank you for your reply. I made my response to the bug ticket.
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1800/

Tatsuro