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

[Victor Krapivensky]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 06:17:59PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 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.

OK, agreed.