Comment # 18
on bug 10572
from Jeff Morriss
(In reply to Stephen Fisher from comment #17)
> (In reply to Jeff Morriss from comment #16)
> > (In reply to Guy Harris from comment #15)
> > > Perhaps either 1) they *did* add .pc files for 5.3 and he has 5.3 installed
> > > (it's out now) or 2) he installed it with one of the packaging systems for
> > > OS X and the packagers added pkg-config files.
> >
> > Yeah, as far as I've been able to tell the Lua folks really leave it up to
> > the packagers (though I haven't seen discussion of pkg-config with 5.3).
> > <sigh>
> >
> > Given all the whacky locations packagers are putting lua.h maybe we should
> > just `find / -name lua.` ;-)
>
> Many packages let you specify the libs and cflags to override pkg-config (or
> for when pkg-config) isn't available with variables such as LUA_CFLAGS and
> LUA_LIBS and we could rely on the user specifying those if pkg-config can't
> find lua.
I like the sound of that (less code for us) but it seems that would also mean
that most users would need to specify those locations. Given that I think I'll
try to work in checking pkg-config first and then (if that fails) checking all
these other weird locations.
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