Re: [Luarocks-developers] LuaZip rock seems to be broken

[Hisham <h...@hi...>]

On 9 June 2014 11:37, RJP Computing <rjp...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Ignacio,
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Ignacio Burgueño <ibu...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is because the makefile is building a library (zip.so.1.2.3)
>> which is copied to  '/usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks/luazip/1.2.3-2/lib' and
>> then creates a symbolic link to it (zip.so), but that folder is removed by
>> LuaRocks, after moving zip.so to its final destination
>> (/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/zip.so in my case) . The makefile should put the
>> actual zip.so there.
>>
>> You can edit the makefile and change the part that says "install:" with
>> this:
>>
>> install: src/$(LIBNAME)
>>         mkdir -p $(LUA_LIBDIR)
>>         cp src/$(LIBNAME) $(LUA_LIBDIR)/$T.so
>>
>> Then build using luarocks:
>> luarocks make ../luazip-1.2.3-2.rockspec   (I have the rockspec in the
>> parent directory)
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>
>
> This fixes it. Can this be fixed in the repository? I am using luarocks to
> dploy to many computers so I don't want to update the makefile each time.
> plus this is just broken for all users.

As far as I can tell, LuaZip is an orphaned project. The latest
release from Kepler is from 2007. The code seems stable, so taking
over maintenence seems a low-overhead activity, but I don't wish to
maintain it myself.

There's a git-conversion of the CVS from LuaForge at:

https://github.com/luaforge/luazip

Ryan, if you wish to fork this, commit the changes and tag a new
release, I can help you out with the rockspec.

-- Hisham