[PATCH v5 1/1] Initial support for LuaJIT scripting

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 05:28:53PM +0300, Victor Krapivensky wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:31:49PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > This longish C string is actually a lua script, and it doesn't look nice
> > in this form.  Wouldn't it be better if this script was translated into
> > a C string automatically by some Makefile rule?
> Yes, it would. In fact, this is what mpv does [1].
> 
> BTW, are there any disadvantages of installing the script file to a
> compile-time known directory over hardcoding it into the binary?

How would you run the test suite?

The disadvantage is that strace executable will no longer be a standalone
program one can install and invoke from a non-standard location.

> 1. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/b387f82aa40a1655590bbb0dffe58f9728a37b49/wscript_build.py#L102-L111


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