[Buildroot] [git commit] lua-resty-http: new package

[Danomi Manchego]

Peter,

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Danomi" == Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  >> We currently don't have any explicit handling of the nginx-lua
>  >> module. You could conceptually do something with the 'nginx additional
>  >> modules' (BR2_PACKAGE_NGINX_ADD_MODULES) option, but there's no
>  >> guarantee that nginx builds after luajit.
>  >>
>  >> I guess the proper solution would be to add an explicit nginx-lua
>  >> module, similar to what we already have for nginx-dav-ext / nginx-naxsi
>  >> / nginx-upload.
>
>  > FWIW - that's what we did in our project - an "ngx_lua" package that
>  > simply uses generic-package to download and untar the source, and an
>  > addition to nginx.mk like this:
>
>  > ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_NGX_LUA),y)
>  > NGINX_DEPENDENCIES += ngx_lua luainterpreter
>
> ngx_lua (or nginx-lua to follow the naming convention) should probably
> be responsible for pulling in luainterpreter, but OK.

Noted and corrected, thank you.

>> NGINX_CONF_OPTS += --add-module=$(NGX_LUA_DIR)
>  > ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT),y)
>  > NGINX_CONF_ENV += LUAJIT_LIB=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib
>  > LUAJIT_INC=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include
>  > endif
>  > endif
>
>  > But then we ended up not actually using ngx_lua at all.
>
> Would you be interested in contributing (and maintaining) such a package
> in BR?

I've not much interested in maintaining it since I consider it a
failed experiment on our part.  We don't use it now at all.  But I can
do a one-time contribution.  Is that okay?

Danomi -


> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard