Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V3] lua: upgrade from 5.4.8 to 5.5.0

[Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>]

Hi,

> On 27 Feb 2026, at 07:08, Changqing Li via lists.openembedded.org <changqing.li=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> Refer [1], PLATS linux-readline is moved, and readline is changed to
> load dynamically, keep readline as PACKAGECONFIG to allow user to remove
> readline dependency.

As is traditional with people using dlopen(), this is now broken…

Lua defaults to dlopen() support being enabled (LUA_USE_DLOPEN is defined on linux) and the readline library is set to libreadline.so <http://libreadline.so/>.

So the PACKAGECONFIG is not doing the right thing anymore: having readline in the sysroot doesn’t change the build, and has no impact on the runtime packages.

The obvious answer is to change the PACKAGECONFIG to “,,,readline” so that there’s still an option that has the effect of enabling readline in lua, but that also won’t work as the on-disk file isn’t called libreadline.so <http://libreadline.so/> unless you install the -dev package…. This means we should also set LUA_READLINELIB to "libreadline.so.8”.

Bonus points for adding readline as a build dependency and looking up what the libreadline.so <http://libreadline.so/> symlink resolves to, but I don’t expect the readline soname to change in the near future so this can be considered overkill.

Ross