From 07050a35f3cc4401e19761b2b5e84ad56a5067c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Beckingham <paul@beckingham.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:53:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Portability

- Added preliminary enhancement to configure.ac (thanks to Sander Marechal),
  but this still needs work.
---
 AUTHORS      |  2 +-
 configure.ac | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 399c59e04..65698326b 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ The following submitted code, packages or analysis, and deserve special thanks:
   Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik
   Irfan Siddiqui
   Itay Perl
+  Sander Marechal
 
 Thanks to the following, who submitted detailed bug reports and excellent
 suggestions:
@@ -67,6 +68,5 @@ suggestions:
   Elizabeth Maxson
   Peter De Poorter
   Max Muller
-  Sander Marechal
   Thomas Sattler
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6ed9502e6..703ce996f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([lua-lib],
 
 if test "x$with_lua" = "xyes" ; then
   AC_DEFINE([HAVE_LIBLUA], [1], [Defined if you have liblua])
+
   if test -n "$lua_inc"; then
     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$lua_inc"
     CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I$lua_inc"
@@ -122,7 +123,27 @@ if test "x$with_lua" = "xyes" ; then
     LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$lua_lib"
   fi
 
-  AC_CHECK_LIB([lua],[main])
+#  AC_CHECK_LIB([lua],[main])
+
+# The following code should replace the one line above, but is not working.
+# Anyone know why?
+
+#  # check for lua. this is separate from the above libraries because it's
+#  # liblua50 on debian and liblua everywhere else.
+#  AC_CHECK_LIB(lua, lua_open, LIB_LUA="-llua")
+#  AC_CHECK_LIB(lualib, luaopen_base, LIB_LUA_LIB=-llualib, , [$LIB_LUA -ldl -lm])
+#
+#  if test "x${LIB_LUA}" = "x"; then
+#    echo "Could not find liblua. Please install liblua 5.1+"
+#    exit 1
+#  fi
+#
+#  if test "x${LIB_LUA_LIB}" = "x"; then
+#    echo "Could not find liblualib. Please install liblualib 5.1+"
+#    exit 1
+#  fi
+#
+#  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $LIB_LUA $LIB_LUA_LIB"
 fi