[Oisf-users] hardcoded Lua version in configure.ac?

[Stefan Lambrev]

Not much testing is done. I just got it to compile, that's why my first
question was is there any reason to hardcode to lua 5.1 :)
But even if it works only with a specific version it's easier to use the
proposed patch as you just have to specify min and too high versions and
autodetect lua parameters.
e.g. AX_PROG_LUA(5.1, 5.3) will allow use of v5.1 and v5.2.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Victor Julien <lists at inliniac.net> wrote:

> On 01/20/2015 10:03 AM, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> > I see that Lua version (not luajit) is hardcoded to v5.1.
> > Is there a reason for this? I have experimented little
>
> We started with luajit which is based on lua 5.1 AFAIK. So when adding
> regular lua support I only tested lua 5.1.
>
> > with http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_lua.html
> > and at least on FreeBSD suricata autotools do not have a problem to find
> > "default" Lua installed (5.2 in my case).
>
> Interesting, I thought there were some differences between 5.1 and 5.2,
> but perhaps none of them are relevant to us.
>
> > Here are the patches I do apply to achieve this:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/cheffo/FreeBSD-Ports/blob/master/security/suricata/files/patch-aclocal.m4
> >
> https://github.com/cheffo/FreeBSD-Ports/blob/master/security/suricata/files/patch-configure.ac
> >
> https://github.com/cheffo/FreeBSD-Ports/blob/master/security/suricata/files/patch-m4_ax_lua.m4
> >
> > P.S. I did this only on FreeBSD but with small additions in configure.ac
> > <http://configure.ac> I guess it will work for other operating systems
> too?
>
> How much testing have you done? By default the lua support doesn't do
> anything, you'll have to enable scripts to use it.
>
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