Configure Lua error

[CJ-Wright]

I get the following message when running the configure script.

checking for lua... /usr/bin/lua
checking lua.h usability... no
checking lua.h presence... no
checking for lua.h... no
checking lualib.h usability... no
checking lualib.h presence... no
checking for lualib.h... no
checking for exp in -lm... (cached) yes
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking for lua_load in -llua... no
configure: WARNING: Cannot build lua bindings
./configure: line 25716: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./configure: line 25716: `      else'

Do you know what the issue is, and if it is on my end what I can do to fix it?

[tschoonj]

Hi Christopher,

Did you by any chance clone the repository and ran autoreconf on it to generate the configure script? Which OS are you running?

[CJ-Wright]

Yes, I did. I am using a cluster's copy of Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon). However, I was able to fix the issue with a wget. Now I have the problem that anaconda doesn't know it exists since I didn't use pip or conda to install the package. Anaconda doesn't really have a PYTHONPATH variable since it hardlinks everything. What do you think I should do?

[tschoonj]

Scientific Linux must be too old to generate the correct configure script. I will increase the minimum required versions in configure.ac to avoid this in the future.

Regarding your python issue: I am not much use here I am afraid as I don't know nearly enough python to help you with this... Why not install my RPM xraylib-python packages? These should be picked up automatically by python and removes the need to compile xraylib manually completely. I don't think I have many any substantial changes since I released 3.1.0 anyway.

[CJ-Wright]

I got it to work with the source code, I need to use more --parameters than I expected. Thank you very much for all you help.