From 5f3d7db817c367690c96af5f074fe88895d0f4be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "FeRD (Frank Dana)" <ferdnyc@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 21:02:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Dynamically detect libdir on Linux
Some Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora, CentOS) put 64-bit libraries
in `/usr/lib64` rather than `/usr/lib`. On such systems `luarocks`
should use `lib64` rather than `lib`.
Co-authored-by: Michel Alexandre Salim <michel@michel-slm.name>
---
src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua b/src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua
index 6231678..5fde2bc 100644
--- a/src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua
+++ b/src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua
@@ -393,6 +393,18 @@ local function make_defaults(lua_version, target_cpu, platforms, home)
local xdg_cache_home = os.getenv("XDG_CACHE_HOME") or home.."/.cache"
defaults.local_cache = xdg_cache_home.."/luarocks"
defaults.web_browser = "xdg-open"
+ if platforms.linux then
+ -- inline code from fs/linux.lua since
+ -- luarocks.fs can't be required here
+ -- (circular dependencies)
+ local fd, _, code = io.open("/usr/lib64", "r")
+ if code ~= 2 then
+ defaults.lib_modules_path = "/lib64/lua/"..lua_version
+ end
+ if fd then
+ fd:close()
+ end
+ end
end
if platforms.cygwin then
--
2.40.0