Do not depend on readlineHEADmaster

Readline is only used in the standalone lua interpreter, and we don't really need that. It would
be silly to pull readline as a dependency for this reason.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/libs/lua/src/Makefile b/libs/lua/src/Makefile
index e4a3cd6..ffc5715 100644
--- a/libs/lua/src/Makefile
+++ b/libs/lua/src/Makefile
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ generic:
         $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=
 
 linux:
-        $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_LINUX MYLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline -lhistory -lncurses"
+        $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_LINUX MYLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl"
+# we don't want to depend on readline, see comment in luaconf.h
+#       $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_LINUX MYLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline -lhistory -lncurses"
 
 macosx:
         $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_LINUX MYLIBS="-lreadline"
diff --git a/libs/lua/src/luaconf.h b/libs/lua/src/luaconf.h
index e2cb261..bc34b13 100644
--- a/libs/lua/src/luaconf.h
+++ b/libs/lua/src/luaconf.h
@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@
 #if defined(LUA_USE_LINUX)
 #define LUA_USE_POSIX
 #define LUA_USE_DLOPEN          /* needs an extra library: -ldl */
-#define LUA_USE_READLINE        /* needs some extra libraries */
+/*
+ * we don't define LUA_USE_READLINE, because readline is only used in the standalone lua
+ * interpreter, and we don't really need that. It would be silly to pull readline as a dependency
+ * for this reason.
+ */
+//#define LUA_USE_READLINE      /* needs some extra libraries */
 #endif
 
 #if defined(LUA_USE_MACOSX)