Re: [ANN] LuaRocks 2.1.1

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2013/10/30 Hisham <h@hisham.hm>:

> Those of you who installed LuaRocks 2.1.0 using "make bootstrap" on
> Unix may upgrade by simply running:
>
> luarocks install luarocks
>
> !!Note!! To ensure a clean environment when upgrading, the first
> installation of LuaRocks should be done using the configure script
> followed by "make bootstrap". Only use "luarocks install luarocks" if
> your previous installation was done using "make bootstrap". Future
> upgrades of LuaRocks will be able to check this automatically.

Since my previous install was 2.0.13, I thought I'd check this feature
by installing 2.1.0 first.  This is what happened on Ubuntu 12.04,
with Lua 5.2.2 separately built and installed in /usr/local.

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…/luarocks-2.1.0$ ./configure
Lua interpreter found: /usr/local/bin/lua...
Lua version detected: 5.2
Looking for Lua... lua found in $PATH: /usr/local/bin
Checking Lua includes... lua.h found in /usr/local/include/lua.h
wget found at /usr/bin
md5sum found at /usr/bin
Configuring for system... Linux
Configuring for architecture... i686
Existing installation detected.
Using previously configured rocks dir: /usr/local
Writing configuration...

Installation prefix: /usr/local
LuaRocks configuration directory: /usr/local/etc/luarocks
Using Lua from: /usr/local

Done configuring.
- Type 'make build' and 'make install':
  to install to /usr/local as usual.
- Type 'make bootstrap':
  to install LuaRocks in /usr/local as a rock.

…/luarocks-2.1.0$ sudo make bootstrap
< ... about two screensful of things that worked ... >
LUA_PATH="$PWD/src/?.lua;$LUA_PATH" src/bin/luarocks make rockspec
--tree="/usr/local"
/usr/local/bin/lua: /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/luarocks/help.lua:12:
attempt to concatenate global 'program_name' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
    /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/luarocks/help.lua:12: in main chunk
    [C]: in function 'require'
    src/bin/luarocks:9: in main chunk
    [C]: in ?
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 1
$ ls -l /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/luarocks/help.lua ./src/luarocks/help.lua
-rw-r--r-- 1 dirk dirk 4022 Aug  9 23:32 ./src/luarocks/help.lua
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3760 Apr 17  2013
/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/luarocks/help.lua

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It does not appear to be the right thing to use whatever `help.lua` already
lies in the installation target in preference to the one supplied with 2.1.0.