[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/1] [RFC] re-add lua 5.2.4

[Sen Hastings <sen@hastings.org>]

I'm caught a bit between a rock and a hard place,
I want to use the simplefb (https://codeberg.org/gnarz/simplefb) library
with mpv, however simplefb needs lua 5.2 (or later with slight modification)
and cannot be easily backported to 5.1.
mpv of course only supports 5.2, 5.1 or luajit.
Porting mpv to lua 5.3 or newer would be pretty unwise, the mpv maintainers
have made it very clear it would break stuff (internally & externally)
and they are very uninterested in changing it, see:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#why-does-mpv-not-support-lua-53-or-newer
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9225

The least painful solution to my problem I can think of is re-adding lua 5.2
support to buildroot, basically entirely for the benefit of mpv.
It's very unlikely mpv will *ever* support a newer version of lua.

Any objections? It seems like we are still supporting lua 5.1 for legacy reasons,
and I am happy to maintain this.

Sen Hastings (1):
  package/lua: re-add lua 5.2.4

 Config.in.legacy                              | 10 +--
 package/lua/5.2.4/0001-root-path.patch        | 17 ++++
 .../lua/5.2.4/0002-shared-libs-for-lua.patch  | 78 +++++++++++++++++++
 package/lua/5.2.4/0011-linenoise.patch        | 26 +++++++
 package/lua/5.2.4/lua.hash                    |  2 +
 package/lua/Config.in                         |  7 +-
 package/lua/lua.mk                            |  6 +-
 package/luainterpreter/Config.in              |  4 +
 package/mpv/mpv.mk                            |  2 +-
 9 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 package/lua/5.2.4/0001-root-path.patch
 create mode 100644 package/lua/5.2.4/0002-shared-libs-for-lua.patch
 create mode 100644 package/lua/5.2.4/0011-linenoise.patch
 create mode 100644 package/lua/5.2.4/lua.hash

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2.43.0

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