Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lua-5.3.6-2

[Lemures Lemniscati <lemures.lemniscati@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:30:56 +0900, Lemures Lemniscati
> On Mon, 31 May 2021 00:38:57 +0300, Andrey Repin via Cygwin
> > Greetings, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin!
> > 
> > > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> > 
> > > * lua-5.3.6-2
> > > * liblua5.3-5.3.6-2
> > > * liblua-devel-5.3.6-2
> > 
> > > * lua-5.3.6-2-src
> > > * lua-debuginfo-5.3.6-2
> > 
> > 
> > > In this cygwin update, some files come with version number: 
> > >  e.g: lua5.3.exe, which is symlinked from lua by alternatives.
> > 
> > 2021/05/29 18:02:19 running: C:\Programs\Cygwin_64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/lua.sh"
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > failed to read link /usr/bin/lua: No such file or directory
> > failed to link /usr/bin/lua -> /etc/alternatives/lua: No such file or directory
> > failed to link /usr/bin/luac -> /etc/alternatives/luac: No such file or directory
> > failed to link /usr/lib/liblua.dll.a -> /etc/alternatives/liblua.dll.a: No such file or directory
> > failed to link /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc -> /etc/alternatives/lua.pc: No such file or directory
> > failed to link /usr/share/man/man1/lua.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/lua.1.gz: No such file or directory
> > failed to link /usr/share/man/man1/luac.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/luac.1.gz: No such file or directory
> > 2021/05/29 18:02:19 abnormal exit: exit code=2
> > 
> > $ cygcheck -vf /etc/postinstall/lua.sh
> > /etc/postinstall/lua.sh: found in package lua-5.3.6-2
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I cannot reproduce it yet.
> It seems weird that bash can not find /tmp.
> But, I don't know it is related to the issue.
> 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

I've partially reproduced it by installing cygwin from scratch
and selecting base Category and lua-5.3.6-2.
Now, I've got a failure:

failed to link /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc -> /etc/alternatives/lua.pc: No such file or directory

It seems that a cause of the failure was that a directory
  /usr/lib/pkgconfig
was not prepared at that time.

So, some of the failures pointed out might be avoidable,
by packaging empty directories into lua-5.3.6-*
  usr/lib/pkgconfig/

I'll try it.

But, this workaround will not enough in order to resolve all the failures...

Please, Andrey, describe more precisely how to reproduce.

Lem