Lua has a Makefile variable PLAT that allows to choose the platform. I would like to force it to posix, to avoid the dependencies on readline and ncurses. Is that somehow possible?

Raptorjit is a fork of luajit...

I wonder if it is complicated to support their versions ?

I am trying to build luajit-2.1.0-beta2 using luaenv install, which fails with following message:

Downloading luajit-2.1.0-beta2.tar.gz...
-> http://luajit.org/download/LuaJIT-2.1.0-beta2.tar.gz                                         
/opt/luaenv/plugins/lua-build/bin/lua-build: line 144: pushd: luajit-2.1.0-beta2: No such file or directory

This is an excerpt from my Dockerfile:

ENV LUAENV_ROOT=/opt/luaenv \
    PATH=/opt/luaenv/bin:$PATH

RUN ...
    && git clone https://github.com/cehoffman/luaenv.git ${LUAENV_ROOT} && cd ${LUAENV_ROOT} && git checkout ${LUAENV_VERSION} \
    && git clone git://github.com/cehoffman/lua-build.git ${LUAENV_ROOT}/plugins/lua-build && cd ${LUAENV_ROOT}/plugins/lua-build && git checkout ${LUAENV_BUILD_VERSION} \
    && git clone https://github.com/xpol/luaenv-luarocks.git ${LUAENV_ROOT}/plugins/luaenv-luarocks && cd ${LUAENV_ROOT}/plugins/luaenv-luarocks && git checkout ${LUAENV_LUAROCKS_VERSION} \
    && cd \
    && eval "$(luaenv init -)" \
    && for v in ${LUA_VERSIONS} ; do \
        if ! luaenv install ${v} ; then \
            cat /tmp/lua-build.*.log ; \
            exit 1 ; \
        fi ; \
    done \

FEATURE REQUEST

Description of Request

• support more recent, stable luvit releases

Reason or Need for Feature

• Build and compilation process for luvit is broken:
  • dev tag does not exist
  • build on 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 is failing.
• current supported versions are too old.

Design / Proposal

• remove dev tag
• explore using Github API to automatically pull the latest tags
• support builds on versions >=1.0.0

Additional context

• failing build log
  lua-build.20211107145855.3346627.log

Lua 5.4.2 is available since 2020/12: https://www.lua.org/versions.html / https://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.4.2

Lua 5.3.6 is available since 2020/09: https://www.lua.org/versions.html / https://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.3.6