Change Makefile LUAV to "lua5.2"?

[Grissess]

It's been a little annoying to have to specify that string manually on each make; is there a platform where leaving it as its default "lua" works? If so, would that platform also support specifying "lua5.2" (and have those libraries available) instead?

[sjrct]

It does work that way on archlinux, and in addition specifying "lua5.2" is not supported. The purpose of including it was because it is called different things on different architectures. I honestly don't think it makes to much of a difference whether it is "lua5.2" or just "lua", it just changes who has to modify the arguments. Perhaps ideally we should detect which version is present?

[Grissess]

That'd be a good idea, though that leaves to question how that should be done :P

Perhaps check if pkg-config fails with one, then try the other? (Maybe, additionally, some other cases like "lua5.1", "lua50", etc.?)

[BahaVv]

Status update on this: this may be fixed by pulling LUA entirely from the project. TBA.

[Grissess]

Updates on this effort?