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On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:24:26PM +0100, contact@×××××××××.me wrote: |
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> [2019-03-23 16:23:27] William Hubbs: |
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> > The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua |
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> > internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it |
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> > this way; it is supposed to be statically linked into the executable. |
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> > Because of this, and because of the amount of custom patching we do to |
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> > maintain liblua as a shared library, I plan to stop creating the shared |
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> > library. |
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> Pretty sure removing the shared version of liblua will cause a large |
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> amount of patching to be done in a lot of software that may not support |
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> static linking out of the box. |
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I will look into this, but I think you are talking about build systems |
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that don't read pkgconfig files or something similar. |
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> > I'm a bit undecided still about slotting lua. I'm sure we |
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> > need subslots so we can force rebuilds when new lua releases enter the |
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> > tree. However, I'm still unsure whether we need slots. I don't know of |
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> > many things in the tree that are locked to a specific version |
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> > of lua (there is only one package based on an irc conversation I |
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> > had this week). |
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> > Does anyone have any thoughts? Are there more packages in the tree that |
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> > are locked to a specific version of lua? |
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> There should be slotting of lua, for example in the few programs that |
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> I know will need it: |
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> - app-editors/vis::{lua,lanodanOverlay}: Requires >=lua-5.2 |
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> does not support luajit (incomplete 5.2 compatibility) |
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This example isn't really a slot, just a lower bound. This is pretty |
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common. |
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> - media-video/mpv: requires lua:5.2 or luajit |
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> doesn’t seems to plan supporting 5.3[1] |
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This is more concerning, so I'll take a look at it. |
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> Also the lua overlay, which I would highly recommend using as a base |
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> has a slotted version of lua, instead of extending SLOT="0". |
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There were many concerns about lua.eclass in the overlay when it was |
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presented here for inclusion in the tree, and it was never presented |
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again [1]. I also spoke with the previous maintainer of dev-lang/lua and |
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he was concerned about it. |
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William |
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/befce09046d0c80e3cbbee543a378f59 |
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