Beginning with 0.11.0, elinks does not support lua 4.x anymore and needs version 5.x. From the changelog: [...] ELinks 0.11.0 (Elated): ----------------------- [...] * support for Lua 4.x was dropped, we only support Lua 5.x now Also, the configure script does not recognize lua 4.x.
Fixed in CVS. Thanks for reporting this issue.