[CMake] [PATCH] FreeBSD Lua5.x default install path

[Félix C. Morency]

It is exactly the same paths under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I know it doesn't
prove anything concerning 7.1 but it haven't changed since the beta.

Cheers,
Félix

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM, E. Wing <ewmailing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I've been a bit buried recently and I know there are some other
> Lua patches pending. But I think this is reasonable to add if FreeBSD
> is really going to do this. I doubt the addition will break anything
> for other platforms.
>
> But since 7.1 is still beta, do you have it in authority that this is
> what FreeBSD is going to settle on? No sense adding it if they are
> going to change their minds.
>
> As for the duplication list, it was originally because many of these
> paths were not included by CMake or they were not consistent among
> different platforms. I think this has been fixed, but I haven't
> verified it so I haven't removed it in case it breaks somebody.
>
> It later got into kind of a documentation/tutorial thing where (new)
> people started looking at that to get a sense of understanding/comfort
> at what was going on, especially when their files were not found for a
> reason they didn't understand. Maybe it wasn't the most appropriate
> use of the field, but that's what happened.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>
> On 10/22/08, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Félix C. Morency wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It appears that FreeBSD 7.1 (beta) installs Lua5.1 in the following
> >> default
> >> path:
> >>
> >> /usr/local/lib/lua51/
> >>
> >> The current FindLua51 module doesn't search in this path and this
> results
> >> in a not found library. Some goes for Lua5.0.
> >>
> >> I attached two patches (one for 5.0 and one for 5.1) that add the
> correct
> >> path suffix for the library to be found under FreeBSD 7.1 (beta).
> >
> > Nice straight-forward patches.
> > Eric, what do you think ?
> >
> > I had a quick look at FindLua5?.cmake and noticed that in the
> FIND_LIBRARY()
> > calls all the default dirs are listed again,
> > e.g. /usr/local, /opt, /opt/local etc. (see
> > Modules/Platforms/UnixPaths.cmake
> > for the full list of default search directories). Can they be removed
> there
> > ?
> > I don't feel like doing this, Eric should be better qualified for this.
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
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