Hi Hisham,
> Ideally, this should include an entry for APR in the external
> dependencies, but I understand the current limitations for
> implementing that. Pkgconfig support in LuaRocks is definitely in my
> to-do list. I uploaded this version of the rockspec to the package
> repository.
Thanks for uploading the rockspec! About the external dependencies: if I
understood our exchange about the previously included Lua/APR rockspec
correctly I would be breaking either Debian/Ubuntu builds or Mac OS X*
builds, right? Because that is the only reason I removed the external
dependencies from the rockspec.
Right now the makefile (and thus the rockspec) should work on any UNIX
which has a pkg-config file for Lua, APR and APR-util, no matter the
location of the headers and libraries. It's very unfortunate that even
the pkg-config names differ between systems, but I guess this is a
reality we have to live with.
Regarding native pkg-config support in LuaRocks, I was wondering: Is
this such a big change that it will have to wait for LuaRocks 2? Given
that different platforms have different pkg-config names I guess the
only sane way to support pkg-config would be to include these names in
the rockspecs and I guess that means the rockspec format will need some
additional information. This makes me suspect that this will have to
wait for LuaRocks 2. Anyway I'm just curious, certainly not trying to
pressure you or anything.
One more thing. Given that I already have this Lua code that can provide
hints about system packages, if I manage to integrate it in LuaRocks and
introduce a new rockspec variable so that rockspecs can provide hints as
to the required system packages, something like:
system_packages = {
debian = {
'lua5.1', 'liblua5.1-0', 'liblua5.1-0-dev', 'libapr1',
'libapr1-dev', 'libaprutil1', 'libaprutil1-dev',
'libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3', 'libapreq2', 'libapreq2-dev' },
redhat = {
'lua', 'lua-devel', 'apr', 'apr-devel', 'apr-util',
'apr-util-devel', 'libapreq2', 'libapreq2-devel' },
arch = { 'lua', 'apr', 'apr-util', 'perl-libapreq2' },
}
Would you consider including this functionality in LuaRocks?
Thanks for your time,
- Peter
* And likely other Unixes, as you implied.
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