Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-26 Thread Patrick McLean
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 04:23:08 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 04:23:27PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and > > there are a couple of things I want to mention. > > > > The first thing is lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 04:23 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > Are there more packages in the tree that are locked to a specific version > > of lua? > Yes, several, and more on that in a second. > > I think packages will need one of two variables: > LUA_SINGLE_TARGET > LUA_TARGETS > > LUA_TARGET

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 04:23:27PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there > are a couple of things I want to mention. > > The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua > internally in a program, upst

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 12:44 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 02:26:35PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Samstag, 23. März 2019, 22:23:27 CET schrieb William Hubbs: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:24:26PM +0100, cont...@hacktivis.me wrote: > [2019-03-23 16:23:27] William Hubbs: > > The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua > > internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it > > this way; it is supposed to be statically

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 02:26:35PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag, 23. März 2019, 22:23:27 CET schrieb William Hubbs: > > Hi all, > > > > Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there > > are a couple of things I want to mention. > > > > The first thing i

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 23. März 2019, 22:23:27 CET schrieb William Hubbs: > Hi all, > > Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there > are a couple of things I want to mention. > > The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua > internally in a program, upst

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-24 Thread contact
[2019-03-23 16:23:27] William Hubbs: > The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua > internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it > this way; it is supposed to be statically linked into the executable. > Because of this, and because of the amount of c

Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2019-03-23 at 16:23 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there > are a couple of things I want to mention. > > The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua > internally in a program, upstream st

[gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

2019-03-23 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there are a couple of things I want to mention. The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it this way; it is supposed to be static