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Asked: 2026-06-02T06:09:46+00:00

I’m currently having issues installing the PECL LUA package due to a configure failure

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I’m currently having issues installing the PECL LUA package due to a configure failure with:

pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/lua-0.9.4

Giving

...
checking for lua support... yes, shared
checking for lua in default path... not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the lua distribution - lua.h should be in <lua-   dir>/include/
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/lua/configure' failed

Having looked at the tarball it seems the configure script will accept a “–with-lua” override to pass the known location of the lua headers. However it’s entirely non-obvious how you can pass this information down using the pecl installer.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well it seems there is broken configure magic in the package. In the end I had to hardwire a few paths:

    ln -s /usr/include/lua /usr/include/lua5.1
ln -s /usr/lib/liblua5.1.a liblua.a
ln -s /usr/include/lua/* /usr/include

    Was enough to get the compiler through.

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