[vlc-devel] [PATCH][RFC] configure: remove 32-bit Lua test

[Andrey Gursky]

Hi Rémi,

On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 22:36:07 +0300
Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 07 April 2016 19:48:49 Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > Hi Sean!
> > 
> > On Thu,  7 Apr 2016 12:37:04 -0400
> > 
> > Sean McGovern <gseanmcg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Lua 5.3+ functions correctly with 64-bit integers
> > > ---
> > > I imagine this will generate some controversy, but it would
> > > be nice for 64-bit builds with Lua to work again.
> > 
> > 64-bit? 32bit arm build of vlc-android fails as well.
> 
> AFAIK, the test checks for the Lua 5.1 32-bits magic.

Yes, I looked deeper into this and proposed a patch.

> Whoever updated Lua in contribs did not finish the job.
>
> (That being said, VLC builds fine if you don´t use Lua from contribs.)

True, but vlc-android does this. And unfortunately the proposed patch is not enough to resolve this issue.

Regards,
Andrey