Libguestfs - Nov 2012 - [PATCH] lua: fix build error due to LUA_GLOBALSINDEX usage

lua 5.2 changed API, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX is no longer available.
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8.3

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
---

Fix is only compile tested.

 generator/lua.ml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/generator/lua.ml b/generator/lua.ml
index 88748ae..7461cbd 100644
--- a/generator/lua.ml
+++ b/generator/lua.ml
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ push_int64_array (lua_State *L, const int64_t *array, size_t
len)
 static void
 print_any (lua_State *L, int index, FILE *out)
 {
-  lua_getfield (L, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, \"tostring\");
+  lua_getglobal(L, \"tostring\");
   lua_pushvalue (L, index >= 0 ? index : index-1);
   lua_call (L, 1, 1);
   fprintf (out, \"%%s\", luaL_checkstring (L, -1));
-- 
1.8.0

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:20:13PM +0100, Olaf Hering
wrote:
> lua 5.2 changed API, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX is no longer available.
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8.3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
> ---
> 
> Fix is only compile tested.
> 
>  generator/lua.ml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/generator/lua.ml b/generator/lua.ml
> index 88748ae..7461cbd 100644
> --- a/generator/lua.ml
> +++ b/generator/lua.ml
> @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ push_int64_array (lua_State *L, const int64_t *array,
size_t len)
>  static void
>  print_any (lua_State *L, int index, FILE *out)
>  {
> -  lua_getfield (L, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, \"tostring\");
> +  lua_getglobal(L, \"tostring\");
>    lua_pushvalue (L, index >= 0 ? index : index-1);
>    lua_call (L, 1, 1);
>    fprintf (out, \"%%s\", luaL_checkstring (L, -1));
> -- 
> 1.8.0
Thanks -- I have pushed it, and also confirmed that it works OK with
Lua 5.1.4 (not exactly sure why Fedora is still shipping the older
version ...)

Rich.

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