lua52 Small, compilable scripting language providing easy access to C code

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Maintainer: john@essenz.com 👁 search for ports maintained by this maintainer

Port Added: 2013-01-05 23:25:08

Last Update: 2024-03-23 11:19:32

Commit Hash: d7511b9

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License: MIT

WWW:

https://www.lua.org/

Description:

Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications, but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways. Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua. Lua is implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost.

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Manual pages:

• lua52(1)
• luac52(1)

pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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1. @ldconfig
2. /usr/local/share/licenses/lua52-5.2.4_1/catalog.mk
3. /usr/local/share/licenses/lua52-5.2.4_1/LICENSE
4. /usr/local/share/licenses/lua52-5.2.4_1/MIT
5. bin/lua52
6. bin/luac52
7. include/lua52/lauxlib.h
8. include/lua52/lua.h
9. include/lua52/lua.hpp
10. include/lua52/luaconf.h
11. include/lua52/lualib.h
12. lib/liblua-5.2.a
13. lib/liblua-5.2.so
14. libdata/pkgconfig/lua-5.2.pc
15. share/man/man1/lua52.1.gz
16. share/man/man1/luac52.1.gz
17. @dir lib/lua/5.2
18. @dir share/lua/5.2
19. @owner
20. @group
21. @mode

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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)

• no SUBR information found for this port

Dependency lines:

• lua52>0:lang/lua52

To install the port:

To add the package, run one of these commands:

NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.

PKGNAME: lua52

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

SHA256 (lua-5.2.4.tar.gz) = b9e2e4aad6789b3b63a056d442f7b39f0ecfca3ae0f1fc0ae4e9614401b69f4b SIZE (lua-5.2.4.tar.gz) = 252651

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

lua52

ABI	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	5.2.4	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	5.2.4	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:14:latest	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	5.2.4	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	5.2.4	-	5.2.4
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	-	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	5.2.4	5.2.4	5.2.4
FreeBSD:15:latest	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	n/a	5.2.4_1	n/a	n/a	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:16:latest	5.2.4_1	5.2.4_1	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-

Dependencies

NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.

Library dependencies:

1. libedit.so.0 : devel/libedit

This port is required by:

for Build

Deleted ports which required this port:

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1. devel/swig30^*
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for Libraries

1. archivers/lua-lzlib
2. astro/celestia
3. astro/celestia-gtk
4. audio/aqualung
5. editors/fxite
6. finance/moneymanagerex
7. games/3omns

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9. games/domino-chain
10. games/pioneer
11. games/xmoto
12. security/cardpeek
13. sysutils/dsbdriverd
14. www/volta
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Deleted ports which required this port:

Expand this list of 32 deleted ports

1. archivers/rpm5^*
2. astro/celestia-gnome^*
3. databases/postgresql-pllua^*
4. devel/lua-MessagePack^*
5. devel/lua-alien^*
6. devel/onscripter^*
7. devel/onscripter-1byte^*
8. dns/powerdns-recursor40^*
9. editors/wordgrinder^*
10. games/asc^*
11. games/pushover^*
12. games/xnethack-nox11^*
13. graphics/edje^*
14. graphics/gegl3^*
15. lang/lua-ada^*
16. mail/opensmtpd-extras-filter-lua^*
17. math/fityk^*
18. multimedia/libquvi^*
19. multimedia/libquvi09^*
20. multimedia/mpv034^*
21. multimedia/vlc-qt4^*
22. multimedia/vlc3^*
23. net/asterisk13^*
24. net/asterisk15^*
25. net/crtmpserver^*
26. net-im/telegram^*
27. net-im/tg^*
28. sysutils/syslog-ng-incubator^*
29. sysutils/syslog-ng-incubator03^*
30. www/httest^*
31. x11-toolkits/elementary^*
32. x11-wm/awesome3^*
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1. multimedia/libquvi-scripts09^*
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Configuration Options:

No options to configure

Options name:

lang_lua52

USES:

cpe libedit lua:core,52

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Master Sites:

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1. http://www.lua.org/ftp/

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Mk/bsd.port.mk: Add __MAKE_CONF=${NONEXISTENT} to WRK_ENV

And remove it from individual ports. Use WRK_ENV in custom build
commands where necessary.

FreeBSD make(1) includes /usr/share/mk/sys.mk and that includes
/etc/make.conf if it exists. This happens when you run make in a port
directory but it also happens when the upstream build system uses make.
This commit disables make.conf inclusion in the latter case because
users can define variables like CFLAGS in make.conf that override ports
framework variables and this can cause problems that are difficult to
diagnose.

If there are any build customisations made through make.conf that stop
working because of this commit then they should be made available by the

lang/lua52: Impelled to share/man

Approved by: portmgr (blanket)

Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)

Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

lang: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

 * Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
 * Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
 * Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
 * Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
 * Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
 * Alonso Cardenas Marquez <acm@FreeBSD.org>
 * Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
 * Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
 * Andrey Zakhvatov
 * Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
 * Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>

lang/lua52: Add CPE information

Approved by: portmgr (blanket)

Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.

[PowerPC64LE] Fix Lua 5.2 runtime issue

Lua 5.2 (but not earlier or later versions) has a powerpc platform detection
check.

This check was not using the preferred define `__powerpc__` so fails to
trigger on gcc.

It also assumes that all of powerpc is big-endian.

Check a more universal preprocessor define, and add support for the
upcoming FreeBSD PowerPC64LE.

Submitted by:	Daniel Kolesa <daniel@octaforge.org>
Reviewed by:	luporl
Approved by:	portmgr (blanket: runtime fix)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26234

USES=lua gained flavors.

Ports using USES=lua:module or lua:flavors will be flavored. A range of
supported lua versions can be set using XX-YY (or XX-, or -YY, or simply ZZ)
for ports not supporting all lua versions.

USES=lua sets LUA_FLAVOR that needs to be used on all dependencies of
flavored lua ports, in a similar way as PHP or Python flavors.

PR:		245038
Submitted by:	andrew tao11 riddles org uk
Reviewed by:	mat, kevans, russ haley gmail com
Approved by:	mat (portmgr)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16494

Pass maintainership to submitter

PR:		232320
Submitted by:	John Von Essen <john@essenz.com>
Sponsored by:	Netzkommune GmbH

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- Do not silence installation messages
- Regenerate patch files with makepatch:
- Update WWW

- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [g-n]*

Approved by:	portmgr blanket

Use -fPIC on all arches; lua builds the object files into a shared lib.

Since the object files get built into a shared lib, using -fPIC on all
arches is the right thing to do, instead of adding it to each new arch that
comes along which doesn't accidentally allow non-PIC modules in shared libs.

PR:		207324
Approved by:	mat(mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5362

Convert to USES=libedit

lang/lua{51,52,53}: Add -fPIC for arm64

Reviewed by: andrew
Approved by: bapt
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2904

Disbanding lua@ which was anyway not a team for a while
I have no time left to work on lua at all for now

Update to 5.2.4

Fix build on head

Link on libedit instead of readline
Reduce overlinking on liblua
Enforce libedit from ports

Package empty LUA_LDIR and LUA_CDIR, as it's more user-friendly

Cleanup plist

Fix building with readline from ports

Remove build dependency on pkgconf

Set the soname of liblua, it helps ports using cmake to link against it
(otherwise they do not have the correct DT_NEEDED entry)

Approved by:	lua (bapt)

Add missing lua.pc files (missed in previous commits)
Rework the makefile to use jmmv method from PR which is cleaner than my initial
attempt

PR:		ports/180786
Submitted by:	jmmv

Add a .pc file to lua52

PR:		ports/180786
Submitted by:	jmmv

Update to 5.2.3

Pass maintainership to lua@
Lots of cleanup in the Makefile
Reduce patching
Support stage

Fix package name collision

Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
lang)

- Remove MAKE_JOBS_SAFE variable

Approved by:	portmgr (bdrewery)

Link lua .so + program with pthread to prevent hangs in extensions that
use pthreads.

Bump PORTREVISION to pull this in.

PR:		ports/181052
Submitted by:	Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
Approved by:	mandree@ on behalf of lua@

Update to new upstream version Lua 5.2.2.

According to Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo,
"Lua 5.2.2 fixes all bugs listed in http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.1 .

Lua 5.2.2 also fixes several other minors glitches and includes
a revised reference manual."

Fix typo in MAINTAINER address (was also in the submitted .shar).

Add new port lang/lua52.

Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications,
but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua
combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful data
description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.
Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory
management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration,
scripting, and rapid prototyping.

A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for
implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in
the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented
language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and
inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the

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