[elinks-dev] compile 1.1.4 rc0 with lua 5.0 on darwin 7.9/OS X?

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

"Rob" <g68wmg402 at sneakemail.com> writes:

> Here are the stdout messages from the lua 5.0 build:

I get the same on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1.0, i386), except:

> ar rcu ../lib/liblua.a lapi.o lcode.o ldebug.o ldo.o ldump.o lfunc.o lgc.o llex.o lmem.o lobject.o lopcodes.o lparser.o lstate.o lstring.o ltable.o ltests.o ltm.o lundump.o lvm.o lzio.o
> ranlib ../lib/liblua.a
> ranlib: file: ../lib/liblua.a(ltests.o) has no symbols

Here I instead get:

| ar rcu ../lib/liblua.a lapi.o lcode.o ldebug.o ldo.o ldump.o lfunc.o lgc.o llex.o lmem.o lobject.o lopcodes.o lparser.o lstate.o lstring.o ltable.o ltests.o ltm.o lundump.o lvm.o lzio.o
| ranlib: file: ../lib/liblua.a(ltests.o) has no symbols
| ranlib ../lib/liblua.a
| ranlib: file: ../lib/liblua.a(ltests.o) has no symbols

That is, ar ran ranlib on its own.  So, it appears the ar utility
has been modified between these Darwin versions, and perhaps
ranlib too.  I had no problem linking ELinks against liblua.a. 

Possibly the older ranlib got somehow confused at the "has no
symbols" error and did not generate a correct table of contents.
If this is the cause, you could perhaps work around the bug by
editing lua-5.0/src/Makefile and removing ltests.o from OBJS,
then removing and rebuilding liblua.a.  Alternatively, add a
dummy variable to ltests.c, outside #ifdef LUA_DEBUG.
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