[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/minetest: don't depend on luajit

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:17:26 -0600
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:09 AM Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:56:21 -0600
> > James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > Since minetest has a fallback to a bundled lua when luajit is not
> > > available we don't need to depend on luajit or any lua version at all.  
> >
> > In general, I think we try to not use bundled libraries even when they
> > exist. If minetest needs a Lua interpreter, it should always use an
> > external Lua interpreter, I believe.  
> From my understanding luajit is the only supported external lua
> interpreter for minetest. So I think it makes sense to not require
> a specific lua interpreter for flexibility.

I don't understand your reply, as I was not talking about using other
Lua interpreters.

What I'm saying is that if minetest has a mandatory dependency on
LuaJIT, then it should *always* use the external LuaJIT and never use
the bundled one. We prefer external libraries over bundled libraries in
general in the context of Buildroot.

Thomas
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