Re: lua pkgconfig file handling

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner wrote:
> [...]
> I'm not quite sure why the buildlink3.mk file even does that. Since
> upstream lua provides the files under the names above, why does pkgsrc
> unify them this way?

IIRC, only Lua 5.1 comes with a .pc file and it's called etc/lua.pc.

> Alternatively, if there is a good reason to keep this, we could
> replace it by linking lua-5.x.pc to lua.pc, in other words, provide
> both of them.
> 
> Comments?
>  Thomas

This sounds good me, I would also add links to lua and luac executables.
Some packages detect a different version of Lua because they find host's
/usr/bin/lua.

Alex