Updated Issue 224 - Monotone does not compile with LUA 5.2(.2) (monotone)

Hello,

The following issue has been updated:

224 - Monotone does not compile with LUA 5.2(.2)
Project: monotone
Status: New
Reported by: Olaf Seibert
URL: https://code.monotone.ca/p/monotone/issues/224/
Labels:
 Type:Defect
 Priority:Medium

Comments (last first):

# By Thomas Moschny, Oct 11, 2013:

This is a known issue. Code on the main net.venge.monotone branch already works with Lua 5.2.

You now have several options:
- use nvm head version
- wait for Monotone 1.1, to be released within short time
- use a patch

If you are looking for patches, see e.g. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/monotone.git/tree/ .

# By Olaf Seibert, Oct 11, 2013:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
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1. I tried to build the pkgsrc-packaged version of monotone-1.0, with lua-5.2.2 installed.
2. The build failed.

Expected result:
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A clean build.

Actual results:
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There are several issues:

Monotone uses several #defines which don't exist any more: LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, LUAI_MAXCSTACK, lua_strlen.

luaext_platform.cc uses another #define which does not exist any more: LUA_ENVIRONINDEX.
Looking for a quick fix it turned out that the function where it is used is trying something intimate with internal lua functions from liolib.c. However that stuff has been completely changed between lua 5.1 and 5.2. So a quick fix for somebody not intimate friends with lua *and* monotone is out of the question.

This is a serious portability problem!

Output of `mtn version --full`:
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Issue: https://code.monotone.ca/p/monotone/issues/224/