See this post for a workaround
https://github.com/stevedonovan/Penlight/issues/56#issuecomment-15883638
From: Thijs Schreijer [mailto:th...@thijsschreijer.nl]
Sent: donderdag 4 april 2013 9:37
To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Luarocks-developers] better error description
While installing penlight (this rockspec:
http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/penlight-1.1.0-1.rockspec ) I got and
error; "Error: Build error: Failed copying contents of 'lua' directory."
The cause was a lua source file not mentioned in the rockpec, nested in a
subdirectory ("platf") only used by that file ("lua/pl/platf/luajava.lua").
Apparently the "CP" command does copy files recursively, but it doesn't create
the directory structure. So the rockspec doesn't mention "platf", so luarocks
doesn't create the directory, and then "CP" command fails, without an error.
My request would be to make errors like these (took me 3 hours to find it) give
a more descriptive error message. That is assuming the "CP" command does the
same on unix, otherwise it would be a platform specific bug.
Regards
Thijs
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