Re: gnu: Have lua-5.1 compile a .so

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

address@hidden skribis:

> While working on getting weechat to build with the lua plugin enabled,
> I noticed the lua package doesn't produce a liblua.so file. So here is
> a patch to make it do so. It's basically the same patch as in ArchLinux,
> with a few differences like actually installing the .so file.

I think the comments of Eric and Cyril need to be addressed.

Other than that, I’m wondering: is there a reason why upstream Lua
doesn’t install a shared library by default?  Is it because the normal
way to use it is to include the source in the package that uses it?

IOW, is it OK to diverge from upstream?

If in doubt, it’s probably fine, IMO, but I just wanted to make sure.

Thanks,
Ludo’.