Re: Linking lua libs in linux

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:12:30PM -0400, Roger D. Vargas wrote:
> > Please find attached my hot-off-the-keys initial stab at one which once
> > tidied will make its way into Debian...
> >
> > I imagine something similar would be suitable for release in Lua.
> >
> > I've written it in lua, partly to prove a point, and partly to prevent
> > dependency on any particular other scripting language.
> 
> It returns the wrong lib name (liblua40 and lua40). I have version 4 but links 
> using lualib, not lualib40.

Are you using the unsupported lua/liblua packages, or the supported
lua40/liblua40 packages in Debian?

If you're not using Debian, then I'm not surprised it's different. Debian is
set up quite specifically to allow multiple versions of lua to be installed
at once.

D.

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