[C--] Solved: Trouble with configure -- dependencies on obsolete lua

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:48:09PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Hendrik Boom scripsit:
> 
> > Is it essential that qc-- gets a particular version of lua to work with?
> 
> Lua 4 and Lua 5 are incompatible at both the language and the API level.

Ouch.

> > If so, it looks as if I'm going to have to track down lua 4 somewhere.
> 
> http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-4.0.1.tar.gz

Thanks.

> 
> -- 
> Let's face it: software is crap. Feature-laden and bloated, written under
> tremendous time-pressure, often by incapable coders, using dangerous
> languages and inadequate tools, trying to connect to heaps of broken or
> obsolete protocols, implemented equally insufficiently, running on
> unpredictable hardware -- we are all more than used to brokenness.
>                    --Felix Winkelmann

And that looks like exactly the right quote for the issue I raised.

-- hendrik

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