Hello,

I think you can use this as inspiration:

  http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/lua.html

The patch should already be updated and should be working.

-Michael

> On 13 Apr 2021, at 22:06, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I have been working on updating lua from 5.3.5 to 5.4.3
> 
> I updated the autotoolize.patch and the shared_library-1.patch and found that 5.4.3 no longer has lbitlib.c in the tarball src directory
> 
> 
> I removed lbitlib.c from the liblua_la_SOURCES section in the diff for lua-5.3.5/src/Makefile.am
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> +AM_CFLAGS = -Wall
> +
> +include_HEADERS = lua.h lualib.h lauxlib.h lua.hpp
> +
> +nodist_include_HEADERS = luaconf.h
> +
> +lib_LTLIBRARIES = liblua.la
> +liblua_la_LDFLAGS = -release @MAJOR_VERSION@
> +liblua_la_SOURCES = \
> +    lapi.c lauxlib.c lbaselib.c lbitlib.c lcode.c lcorolib.c lctype.c ldblib.c \
> +    ldebug.c ldo.c ldump.c lfunc.c lgc.c linit.c liolib.c llex.c lmathlib.c lmem.c \
> +    loadlib.c lobject.c lopcodes.c loslib.c lparser.c lstate.c lstring.c lstrlib.c \
> +    ltable.c ltablib.c ltm.c lundump.c lutf8lib.c lvm.c lzio.c \
> +    lapi.h lcode.h lctype.h ldebug.h ldo.h lfunc.h lgc.h llex.h llimits.h \
> +    lmem.h lobject.h lopcodes.h lparser.h lstate.h lstring.h ltable.h ltm.h \
> +    lundump.h lvm.h lzio.h
> +
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and then lua built without any problems.
> 
> 
> So lua built successfully but looking at the files in the tarball src directory for 5.3.5 & 5.4.3 there are some differences
> 
> The following files
> lua.c
> luac.c
> lua.h
> luaconf.h
> lualib.h
> lauxlib.h
> lprefix.h
> 
> are in both 5.3.5 & 5.4.3 but not in the liblua_la_SOURCES section. This may be deliberate, I can't tell.
> 
> However lbitlib.c is in 5.3.5 & liblua_la_SOURCES but not in 5.4.3  Is that a problem for IPFire's use of lua?
> 
> 
> ljumptab.h and lopnames.h are not in 5.3.5 or liblua_la_SOURCES but are in 5.4.3  Should these now be included somewhere in the Makefile.am or elsewhere or is it OK to ignore them for IPFire?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
>