GNU bug report logs - #51537
Neovim build missing luajit support

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From: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: bdju <bdju <at> tilde.team>
Subject: Re: bug#51537: Neovim build missing luajit support
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:38:07 +0100

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:35:09 -0500
"bdju" via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> https://github.com/norcalli/nvim-colorizer.lua/issues/40
> I'm hitting this issue in Neovim after installing nvim-colorizer.
> Supposedly the ffi.lua file it says is missing should be built-in.
> Some people had issues on a couple distros that seems to build Neovim
> without luajit, and then fixed it by building it differently. Could
> we enable luajit in the guix recipe so it's built with it? It sounds
> like most distros probably enable it, and that the Neovim devs intend
> it to be enabled.
> 
> Sidenote: the current recipe has a typo, "refirence", should be
> "reference". It's in one of the comments.
> 
> 
> 

Not the solution, just wanted to mention it: the ffi API is not
exclusive to LuaJIT.
https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi

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