On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 00:05, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 08:21, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 08:18, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:08, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Installation of luuid rock fails on Ubuntu 11.4 because libuuid.so >>>>> moved from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ (I suspect that this >>>>> directory is arch-dependent). >>> >>>>> Can something be done about this, please? >>> >>>> See here: >>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/52617/usr-lib-i386-linux-gnu/52619#52619 >>> >>>> (Each Ubuntu release breaks something horribly... :( ) >>> >>> This stuff breaks my deployment. :-( >>> >>> Hisham, is it possible to release 2.0.4.2 with a fix? >>> >>> Also, is it possible for LR to eventually use some system .so lookup >>> mechanics somehow? >> >> People suggest that, to be more robust, LuaRocks should use ld.so.conf >> and ld.so.conf.d contents to determine proper places where to look for >> .so files. >> >> It is not good at all that random distributive updates break luarocks :( > > Distributions can break things any way they please. I try to be > reasonable, but we can't go changing their defaults for all of them > and making emergency releases whenever Ubuntu decides to break the > world. I don't even think ld.so.conf.d is a standard directory. The > latest version of Binutils, 2.21.1, has no reference to it *at all* in > its sources or binaries (I just upgraded to the latest version, > vanilla build straight from the GNU tarball, just to be sure).
Well, no official fix means that I'm forking LR now and leaving it ASAP. No big deal for the rest of the world, of course. Maybe you will at least deign to update the lookup logic so that standard LHS directories are included? /lib*/ /opt/*/lib*/ /usr/lib*/ /usr/local/lib*/ (Note recursive *) Alexander. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
