[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] luajit: point /usr/bin/lua to luajit if lua not selected

Danomi Manchego danomimanchego123 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 23:02:34 UTC 2014


Yann,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> Danomi, All,
>
> On 2014-11-08 22:22 -0500, Danomi Manchego spake thusly:
>> The luajit package is a provider of a lua interpreter, but does
>> not install a lua executable, as it can live side by side with lua.
>
> That is not the case in Buildroot: since they are both providers for the
> luainterpreter virtual package, only one of them may be enabled at a
> time in Buildroot.
>
> (Well, it's possible to enable both in the menuconfig, but then it will
> fail early at build time.)

Understood.  I was simply explaining why luajit doesn't install a
"lua", and probably never will - because there's no reason outside of
buildroot to think that luajit and lua are mutually exclusive.


>> This is fine for scripts that explicitly invoke luajit, but not
>> so good for scripts that just need a lua interpreter and call lua.
>> This mod creates a lua symlink so that the non-jit-specific scripts
>> will still work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  package/luajit/luajit.mk |    7 +++++++
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/package/luajit/luajit.mk b/package/luajit/luajit.mk
>> index 2c1f8f4..f38088c 100644
>> --- a/package/luajit/luajit.mk
>> +++ b/package/luajit/luajit.mk
>> @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ define LUAJIT_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
>>       $(MAKE) PREFIX="/usr" DESTDIR="$(TARGET_DIR)" LDCONFIG=true -C $(@D) install
>>  endef
>>
>> +ifneq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LUA),y)
>> +define LUAJIT_INSTALL_SYMLINK
>> +     ln -fs luajit $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/lua
>> +endef
>> +LUAJIT_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += LUAJIT_INSTALL_SYMLINK
>> +endif
>
> Well, since only one of lua or luajit can be enabled at a time, there is
> not reason for that conditional block.
>
> Otherwise, OK for creating the symlink.

I'm fine with taking the conditional out.  I was simply emulating a
similar setup in python3.mk:

  define PYTHON3_INSTALL_SYMLINK
  ln -fs python3 $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/python
  endef

  ifneq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON),y)
  PYTHON3_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += PYTHON3_INSTALL_SYMLINK
  endif

Anyway, I'll wait to see if there is more feedback before generating a v2.

Thanks,
Danomi -



> Note: I seem to recall you (or someone else?) already asked to be able
> to be able to select both lua and luajit at the same time.
>
> This is unfortunately not possible, given how we hanfdle virtual
> packages: only one provider may be active at a time.
>
> However, I think there might be a solution for that, but it is not
> really clean. For example, we could do (code stripped down for
> readability):
>
>     config BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT
>         bool "luajit"
>         select BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LUAINTERPRETER if !BR2_PACKAGE_LUA
>
>     if BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT
>
>     config BR2_PACKAGE_PROVIDES_LUAINTERPRETER
>         default "luajit" if !BR2_PACKAGE_LUA
>
>     endif
>
> But I doubt we want to go down that route in Buildroot...
> Thomas, Peter?
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
>>  define HOST_LUAJIT_BUILD_CMDS
>>       $(MAKE) PREFIX="/usr" BUILDMODE=static -C $(@D) amalg
>>  endef
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
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