First, let me say up-front that I wrote the instructions for using LuaRocks with GNU autotools:
http://www.luarocks.org/en/Creating_LuaRocks_with_GNU_autotools Therefore, I don't think the answer to the following question is found there. Those instructions work up to a point, but they fall down when a package needs to use a path at run-time. I have just created such a package, which refers, indirectly, to LuaRocks's LIBDIR and LUADIR. The problem is that of course when the package is run, the files are no longer located there, but have been moved into the relevant system locations. In fact, I need to be able to pass the rock tree root, lib_dir and lua_dir instead, i.e. the locations where the files will end up, to the build system. The Autotools build system will install the package in the real install location, not in LuaRocks's rock directory. I presume this isn't a problem, as LuaRocks will simply find nothing to copy, and won't copy anything. The only slight problem I see is that the files that are normally left over in the rocks tree, such as documentation and examples, will instead be installed in the standard GNU locations, but that seems tolerable. More problematically, I can't see how to reference any of these locations in the LuaRock: rocks_dir is exposed as ROCKS_TREE, and deploy_bin_dir is exposed as SCRIPTS_DIR, but I need deploy_lib_dir, deploy_lua_dir and deploy_dir, which don't seem to be accessible in LuaRocks. I'd be happy to make a patch to expose these variables in rockspecs, preferably under uppercase variants of the above names (suggesting that deploy_bin_dir ought also to be available as DEPLOY_BIN_DIR as well as SCRIPTS_DIR), but first I'd like to know that my analysis is correct, and that there's no way currently to get hold of those variables in a rockspec. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
