Bug 229927

Summary: devel/lua-stdlib: DOCS causes conflict between multiple lua versions
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Andrew "RhodiumToad" Gierth <andrew>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (sunpoet)
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Andrew "RhodiumToad" Gierth 2018-07-21 16:29:40 UTC 
devel/lua-stdlib installs docs in doc/stdlib, which is (a) rather too generic a name and (b) doesn't include the Lua version, so it conflicts if you try and install the module for multiple Lua versions.
Comment 1 Po-Chuan Hsieh freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-07-29 15:08:16 UTC 
Do we support multiple lua versions now? I think only the default lua version is chosen.
Comment 2 Andrew "RhodiumToad" Gierth 2018-07-29 15:58:30 UTC 
(In reply to Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh from comment #1)

We certainly support installing multiple versions of the language itself, and each version gets its own module directories. The module itself works fine if you build it multiple times for different versions, but unless you turn off the DOCS option the resulting packages conflict on the docs files.

With 5.4 coming out soon this is only becoming more of an issue.

The Lua language port for 5.3 is likely to be updated soon for 5.3.5 (see https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13690 ) and it will install its own docs under doc/lua53/lua, intentionally leaving open the possibility for lua libraries to install docs in doc/lua53/${PORTNAME} or similar. I have also proposed adding FLAVOR support to lua.mk (see https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16494 ) which would simplify handling of this.
Comment 3 Andrew "RhodiumToad" Gierth 2020-04-19 15:11:01 UTC 
Close as fixed by addition of flavor support in r531700.