Endless path and environment woes

["Tiogshi Laj" <tiogshi@...>]

I have been failing to get LUA_PATH/package.path working right for nearly two major versions of Lua, now.

I'm using lua 5.1, from the Debian package on one machine, and a custom-compiled lua 5.1 (using 64-bit signed ints for numbers) on another machine. Both suffer this same problem.

The console snippet below describes the nature of this error in full, I suspect.


[tiogshi@tiogshi-desktop ~/Programming/sim-lua]$ echo $LUA_PATH
;;./?.lc;./?.lua;/home/tiogshi/.lua/?.lua;/home/tiogshi/.lua/?.lc

[tiogshi@tiogshi-desktop ~/Programming/sim-lua]$ lua
Lua 5.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print( os.getenv('LUA_PATH') )
nil
>


Any suggestions?

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