1. Trying to install e17 core using e17 installation wiki: http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index....rce_Repository

2. Installing all the svn sources in order as stated in wiki.

3. I get to installing edje and upon ./autogen.sh it fails due to not finding lua

4. I installed lua 5.1.4 from source and I can start lua by doing ~$/usr/local/bin/lua

5. I try again to ./autogen.sh edje-svn and it fails -- cannot find lua path or installation

6. How do I tell edje-svn configuration script where lua is installed.

Thanks for your time and help.

Since you have installed a dependency (lua) from source, you have to change the default PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly, so it can be found by the autogen script.

What OS are you using ? Most ( if not all) current home systems do not use /usr/local

when you built lua you needed to add "--prefix=/usr" to ./configure. This will cause lua to beinstalled in the system default path
see : from the lua build folder
for the configure options

Thanks Mr. Bathory.
I tried this using /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib and still no go.
I continue to receive the following error:


checking whether to build edje_cc... yes
checking for location of Vim data files... /usr/share/vim
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether to build documentation... yes
checking for doxygen... yes
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.5... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.5
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
configure: error: unable to find Lua
bash-3.1#

Thanks for the reply Mr. VV.
I'm using Slackware linux ver. 12.2.

I was looking for exactly what you mentioned regarding the ./configure options, and I thought it was very strange too, there was no mention of ./configure in the INSTALL instructions that unpacked with Lua 5.1.4 tarball.

The INSTALL file states only:
Building Lua on Unix systems should be very easy. First do "make" and
see if your platform is listed. If so, just do "make xxx", where xxx
is your platform name. The platforms currently supported are:
aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris

. . . .
If you want to build and install Lua in one step, do "make xxx install",
where xxx is your platform name.
- - - - - - - - - - - -

I let Lua install to the default directories it has set in the make file. I tested the Lua install by doing ~$make test and it looked fine:

bash-3.1# make test
src/lua test/hello.lua
Hello world, from Lua 5.1!
bash-3.1#


Any other ideas.
All suggestions followed up on and greatly appreciated.

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Built Lua using package from Slackbuilds.org
I was able to install the edje library for e17.

Of course, my luck did not last very long....upon trying to build e17 from source I got a compilation error about, guess what -- /usr/lib/liblua.so

But now we're on to a new thread so I'll end this one.

when ever i build from source( most of the time ) i read the output of " ./configure --help " . Even on code i build all the time -- to see what has changed--
A lot of code defaults to /usr/local ( good for the office or a home network , but not so good on a single system) -- google the subject--

i always add --prefix=/usr if i am installing it to / .most times i install it on a different partition so mine dose very

also it is a VERY GOOD habit to get into to check "configure --help" , README , and INSTALL .
Some code has a premade Makefile , if that is the case then READ THE MAKEFILE . and edit the makefile to your system.

Hi, i struggled with the exact problem myself.. after a bit of asking and a big thanks to "Sachiel". It was not more worse then to move/copy the lua.pc file created inside the src directory when you have compiled lua. Then move it to /usr/lib/pkgconfig

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thanks knott, not to dig up an old thread but since building mysql workbench requiring lua i figured i would comment. lua.pc is in the etc directory of the lua sources not the src directory, but the jist of your post fixed my issue of pkgconfig flipping out.