On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 13:18, Eli Schwartz via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Lua *does* provide a "make pc" target.
Only lua 5.1 does, it was removed in the lua 5.2 release. Due to disagreements between debian and fedora lua package maintainers about what it should contain. > Admittedly, this target is > missing the Libs: keyword so that users can actually use the invocation > `pkg-config --libs lua` to find out the right flags for linking lua. > This would be helpful both to users wishing to statically link, and > those wishing to dynlink. Admittedly also, this pc target echoes to > stdout instead of like creating the actual file. > > Note: the Arch, Debian, and Fedora maintainers have *all* fixed the pc > file to provide proper Libs:, and while I wouldn't generally recommend > relying on downstream pkg-config files, the official sources do quite > plainly allow you to use in your Makefile: > > CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --variable includedir lua) > > since it is assumed lua distributors will run make pc > lua.pc and > install this file themselves. They do not. The upstream lua makefile does not even support creating shared libraries; that is patched in (differently!) by each distro.
