Philipp Janda schröb: > this was probably a lot more detailed than necessary.
No no no, it's extremely clear and helpful and complete :-) > Rockspecs are loaded with an empty environment, > so even `_VERSION` is not available. Ooh... > The `description.homepage` field is intended to give credit to the > upstream module author(s), so you shouldn't change that from its current > value. However there is a `description.maintainer` field you can use. > ... Drawback is that this field isn't displayed in the rocks listing I wouldn't want to go down in history as the maintainer, because I'm not... Would it be OK if I added Doc: http://insert.url.here/ into the description.detailed text ? Plus, that seems to become clickable in repositories/rocks/index.html, which IMHO is a Feature... > Regarding `GDBM_LIBDIR`: This variable depends on your operating > system. If luarocks can't find the necessary library automatically > (because it doesn't scan the library paths used for Debian's/Ubuntu's > multiarch feature), you have to tell it where the library is. but I'm not sure that that's a Feature, at least from my own selfish point of view. Is there a more general option-name than GDBM_LIBDIR ? Like LIB_PATH or something ? LD_LIBRARY_PATH ? (subtext: then it would be easy to write a wrapper that looked at /etc/ld.so.conf and thence /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* and then invoked luarocks...) Thanks for your help, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
