271098 – x11-wm/awesome-3.3_rc3 needs lua compiled with USE=deprecated

Bug 271098 - x11-wm/awesome-3.3_rc3 needs lua compiled with USE=deprecated

Summary: x11-wm/awesome-3.3_rc3 needs lua compiled with USE=deprecated

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2009-05-24 18:45 UTC by Tassilo Horn
Modified:	2009-05-26 00:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Tassilo Horn 2009-05-24 18:45:44 UTC

In this awesome release there are some functions with vararg parameters (...), and they're accessed via the special variable `arg'.  Starting with lua 5.1 this `arg' special variable is deprecated.

To make awesome 3.3_rc3 working, lua-5.1 has to be compiled with the "deprecated" USE flag. (Another option might be to use lua 5.0 where this syntax was right.)

Comment 1 Tassilo Horn 2009-05-25 13:55:19 UTC

I've talked to the awesome devs, and in git (and thus the next (pre-) release)
they will use lua 5.1 syntax only.

Comment 2 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-26 00:05:07 UTC

hmm, latest git still needs lua with USE=deprecated.
fixed dependency in cvs. thanks.