[Luarocks-developers] Upgrading to LuaRocks 3

[Sean Conner <se...@co...>]

  I'm running LuaRocks 2.4.4.  I want to install the latest version, so as
I've done before, I do:

	% luarocks install luarocks

  Only it fails because my current version of LuaRocks doesn't support
LuaRocks 3.0 rock files.  So it looks like I'm going to have to do this the
hard way.

  So far, it's been a disaster.  Rocks are, for some reason, being installed
in $HOME/apps/luarocks-3.0.3/lua_modules and NOT the system wide one in
/usr/local or even my old $HOME/.luarocks.  There is nothing in the
system-wide configuration file nor my $HOME/.luarocks/config file that says
"install in the source location".  I did a './configure' and it reports:


Configuring LuaRocks version 3.0.3...

Lua version detected: 5.3
Lua interpreter found: /usr/local/bin/lua
lua.h found: /usr/local/include/lua.h
unzip found in PATH: /usr/bin

Done configuring.

LuaRocks will be installed at......: /usr/local
LuaRocks will install rocks at.....: /usr/local
LuaRocks configuration directory...: /usr/local/etc/luarocks
Using Lua from.....................: /usr/local

* Type make and make install:
  to install to /usr/local as usual.
* Type make bootstrap:
  to install LuaRocks into /usr/local as a rock.

  This is *after* I deleted *everything* dealing with the old LuaRocks
version.  This is *after* I found out it was picking up LuaJIT before it
picked up Lua.

  I will keep calm and carry on, but so far, this update has been quite
disasterous.

  -spc