Re: Prefix bug in ax_lua?

Hi Nate,

That's weird.

I've worked on this macro in the past. I can try to take a look over the
weekend.

-- Tim

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 9:07 AM Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I've not encountered this behavior
> with other macro packages from the Autoconf Archive.
>
> I found that when the configure script is passed '--prefix=/usr' that
> the resulting share and library paths are munged so that the slash
> between '/usr' and 'lib64' on my Slackware systems goes missing.  Here
> is what I am seeing with '--prefix=/usr':
>
> checking for a Lua interpreter with version >= 5.2, < 5.4... lua5.2
> checking for lua5.2... /usr/bin/lua5.2
> checking for lua5.2 version... 5.2
> checking for lua5.2 platform... unknown
> checking for lua5.2 script directory... ${prefix}share/lua/5.2
> checking for lua5.2 module directory... ${exec_prefix}lib64/lua/5.2
>
> Here is what I see when '--prefix=$HOME/local'):
>
> checking for a Lua interpreter with version >= 5.2, < 5.4... lua5.2
> checking for lua5.2... /usr/bin/lua5.2
> checking for lua5.2 version... 5.2
> checking for lua5.2 platform... unknown
> checking for lua5.2 script directory... ${prefix}/share/lua/5.2
> checking for lua5.2 module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/lua/5.2
>
> And when '--prefix' is left at default ('/usr/local'):
>
> checking for a Lua interpreter with version >= 5.2, < 5.4... lua5.2
> checking for lua5.2... /usr/bin/lua5.2
> checking for lua5.2 version... 5.2
> checking for lua5.2 platform... unknown
> checking for lua5.2 script directory... ${prefix}/share/lua/5.2
> checking for lua5.2 module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/lua/5.2
>
> Here are variables from config.status with '--prefix=/usr':
>
> S["LUA_LIB"]="-llua5.2  -lm -ldl"
> S["LUA_INCLUDE"]="-I/usr/include/lua5.2"
> S["pkgluaexecdir"]="${luaexecdir}/hamlib"
> S["luaexecdir"]="${exec_prefix}lib64/lua/5.2"
> S["pkgluadir"]="${luadir}/hamlib"
> S["luadir"]="${prefix}share/lua/5.2"
> S["LUA_EXEC_PREFIX"]="${exec_prefix}"
> S["LUA_PREFIX"]="${prefix}"
> S["LUA_PLATFORM"]="unknown"
> S["LUA_SHORT_VERSION"]="52"
> S["LUA_VERSION"]="5.2"
> S["LUA"]="/usr/bin/lua5.2"
>
> and again with '--prefix' not set:
>
> S["LUA_LIB"]="-llua5.2  -lm -ldl"
> S["LUA_INCLUDE"]="-I/usr/include/lua5.2"
> S["pkgluaexecdir"]="${luaexecdir}/hamlib"
> S["luaexecdir"]="${exec_prefix}/lib/lua/5.2"
> S["pkgluadir"]="${luadir}/hamlib"
> S["luadir"]="${prefix}/share/lua/5.2"
> S["LUA_EXEC_PREFIX"]="${exec_prefix}"
> S["LUA_PREFIX"]="${prefix}"
> S["LUA_PLATFORM"]="unknown"
> S["LUA_SHORT_VERSION"]="52"
> S["LUA_VERSION"]="5.2"
> S["LUA"]="/usr/bin/lua5.2"
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Nate
>
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