Hi Hisham, Before I prepare rockspecs that build autonomously, could you revisit the last post in the thread “HDF5 for Lua rockspec”, which asks for adding architecture-dependent paths to LUA_PATH?
Currently the architecture-dependent files (C.lua) that contain FFI C bindings are installed to $(LUADIR), and the resulting binary rock is architecture all, while working on 64 bit architectures only. The alternative is to install C.lua to $(LIBDIR), but this requires that `luarocks path` also adds $(LIBDIR) to LUA_PATH. Further, this introduces a maintenance headache, since multiple rocks have to be uploaded for each OS (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Windows) despite having the same C.lua given the same architecture (e.g. 64 bit). I would prefer the first solution, and point out in the installation instructions that the pre-compiled rocks are for 64 bit systems. Users of 32 bit systems can still install with “luarocks build”, which requires GCC and the Lua plugin for GCC to be available. For HDF5 and OpenCL, this should not be a problem, since both libraries target high-performance computing where 64 bit is used exclusively. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
