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Shouldn't "lua" package be renamed to "lua51"?
Otherwise both Slackware current and SBo current have "lua" but rather different ones (5.1 vs 5.4, which are incompatible). Similarly, maybe Slackware shouldn't call the package "lua" and use "lua54" as well.
I came across this while trying to build lgi that apparently doesn't support 5.4 (at least its latest release doesn't), updated SlackBuild to do:
make PREFIX=/usr CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS -I/usr/include/lua5.3/" LUA_VERSION=5.3
make install DESTDIR=$PKG LUA_VERSION=5.3
Which worked, but then I tried to build awesome and hit that it uses /usr/include/lua.h as well as lua executable. Managed to build by adding this to cmake invocation and lua -> lua5.3 symlink to $PATH:
-DLUA_LIBRARY=/usr/lib64/liblua5.3.so \
-DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/lua5.3/ \
These are just examples, hence not PRs. There are at least 63 users of lua package (at least awesome isn't there despite it requiring lua for build, but it normally gets lua due to transitivity). Just installing "lua" from SBo on top of Slackware's "lua" will probably work (e.g., wireplumber should still use the correct liblua), but is that what's recommented here? This from the wiki:
note that I remove from the repository whatever gets added to Slackware current (also under a different name - for example six as python-six)
Makes me think that it's not intentional.
yes, it should, but it's not something that could be done in this repository (as it would lead to a non-maintenable situation), it has to be done in the main SlackBuilds.org repository. I was planning to do it but I hadn't the time to get on to it yet...
Maybe there should be a Wiki page outlining such things. wireplumber is also still there despite being now part of pipewire.
that of lua is actually a very special case. usually I remove from this repository what is added to Slackware during current's development cycle but I might miss something, especially if something gets added as part of other packages, so I base this patches also on the reports I receive: so thanks for yours about wireplumber, it will be removed from here at the next global update (usually in the weekend)!