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

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:59:40 -0500, John Cowan wrote:

> Hendrik Boom scripsit:
> 
>> I don't know if I'll have time for it, but if I did, would anyone be
>> interested in a patch to make it work with more current lua?
> 
> I don't see any reason for it.  Lua 4 should go on working indefinitely,
> and will be available at lua.org and other places for the foreseeable
> future.  Since qc-- is not being updated, it would be better to put in
> the effort to improve it.

Still, there are problems because 'lua' is the name both for the 
executable for lua 4 and for current lua.  It has to be installed in a 
secluded location.

And mk is distributed as part of Debian's 9base package, placed in /usr/
lib/plan9/bin/mk.  Placing that on the PATH unfortunately also place 
other plan9executables like ls , mkdir, sed, sleep, sort, grep, du on the 
PATH.  I have no idea whether these are compatible.

Your configure file says it makes no sense to set the variables for, say. 
$x{mk} because you never use the full PATH.  But it would be convenient to
set $x{mk} = "/usr/lib/plan9/bin/mk" and avoid having all kinds of junk 
on the PATH.  But if you don't use this variable, there is no point.

Now none of there problems are insurmountable.  But they do suggest that 
some adaptation to modernity might be useful.

-- hendrik

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