Re: anybody know a Ubuntu universe maintainer to one-line patch luarocks?

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:49:07AM -0300, Hisham wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:02:43PM +0000, Jay Carlson wrote:
> >>
> >> Anybody know an Ubuntu universe maintainer? The luarocks "all
> >> architecture" package hardcodes LUAROCKS_UNAME_M as "i686", which
> >> means CFLAGS won't get -fPIC on x86_64. Simply removing the
> >> LUAROCKS_UNAME_M line from the distributed
> >> /usr/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/config.lua will fix it.
> >
> > I'm mildly astonished that this bug is still there.  -fPIC is required
> > when building a shared object, regardless of CPU architecture.
> >
> > Add this to the reasons I don't use LuaRocks.
> 
> Because Ubuntu still ships LuaRocks 2.0.2, a version from April 2010?
> To your mild astonishment, -fPIC is being added to CFLAGS since
> LuaRocks 2.0.3, from September 2010.

Yay.  But the lack of recent versions packaged in major distributions is
still on that list.

B.