On 16 September 2011 15:34, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
> On 15 September 2011 23:46, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
>> The one thing I can't see how to do after getting a working rockspec
>> for both luaposix and stdlib is how to install .lua files in a
>> different place from .so files. It's fairly common to install
>> (arch-independent) .lua files once per system under
>> /usr/local/share/lua/5.1 or similar, while .so files obviously go
>> under /usr/local/lib/lua/5.1 or similar, and perhaps in a per-arch
>> directory. This reflects a similar split between the default
>> package.path and package.cpath on Linux.
>>
>> However, in my config.lua file I find only LIBDIR, which corresponds
>> to package.cpath, but I can't find any LUADIR or SHAREDIR or similar
>> (what GNU autotools calls 'datadir'). I can't see anything like this
>> in the luarocks sources either.
>
> OK, I found LUADIR, but unlike LIBDIR I don't see how to configure it,
> as it is not read from config.lua...

OK, I found the documentation at

http://luarocks.org/en/Config_file_format

which says that LUADIR is read from the variables table of my config
file. So I set:

variables = {
  LUADIR = "/home/rrt/local/share"
}

in my LUAROCKS_CONFIG file, but this seems to have no effect.

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