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luaawesome-wm
UlfR
UlfR

Reputation: 4395

How to run latest version of awesome?

Question

What can I do to get to awesome >= 4.3?

About my problem

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and running awesome 4.2 (installed with apt). But now I want to use some widgets that uses awful.popup and that was introduced in awesome 4.3. o I thought I could get that working by compiling my own new version.

So following the build instructions i did:

git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome
cd awesome
make

Then everything seems to be working until it finally fails as:

...
[ 87%] Generating API documentation
Error: no suitable Lua interpreter found
Error: supported versions are: 5.2 5.1
CMakeFiles/ldoc.dir/build.make:289: recipe for target 'doc/index.html' failed
make[3]: *** [doc/index.html] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:211: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/ldoc.dir/all' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/ldoc.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:151: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
Makefile:14: recipe for target 'cmake-build' failed
make: *** [cmake-build] Error 2

So as far as far as I understand it I'm on Lua5.3 and awesomeConfig.cmake tells me 5.3 should be valid:

# 5.1 <= LUA_VERSION < 5.4

Current running awesome version is:

$ awesome --version
awesome v4.2 (Human after all)
 • Compiled against Lua 5.3.3 (running with Lua 5.3)
 • D-Bus support: ✔
 • execinfo support: ✔
 • xcb-randr version: 1.5
 • LGI version: 0.9.2

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1008

Answers (2)

Emmanuel Lepage Vallee
Emmanuel Lepage Vallee

Reputation: 2762

If you are on Ubuntu, it is useful to first run apt build-dep awesome -y. It will install everything needed for make to work. Note that if you have some weirdly configured Lua, the error may persist.

Upvotes: 1

UlfR
UlfR

Reputation: 4395

Doyousketch2 did provide the relevant clues to solving this. What I did to run make successfully was:

make CMAKE_ARGS="-DGENERATE_DOC:BOOLEAN=OFF"

Upvotes: 0

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