homebrew-core/Formula/luarocks.rb

require 'formula'

class Luarocks < Formula
  homepage 'http://luarocks.org'
  head 'https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks.git'
  url 'http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.2.tar.gz'
  sha1 '406253d15c9d50bb0d09efa9807fb2ddd31cba9d'

  option 'with-luajit', 'Use LuaJIT instead of the stock Lua'
  option 'with-lua52', 'Use Lua 5.2 instead of the stock Lua'

  if build.with? "luajit"
    depends_on 'luajit'
    # luajit depends internally on lua being installed
    # and is only 5.1 compatible, see #25954
    depends_on 'lua'
  elsif build.with? "lua52"
    depends_on 'lua52'
  else
    depends_on 'lua'
  end

  fails_with :llvm do
    cause "Lua itself compiles with llvm, but may fail when other software tries to link."
  end

  # Remove writability checks in the install script.
  # Homebrew checks that its install targets are writable, or fails with
  # appropriate messaging if not. The check that luarocks does has been
  # seen to have false positives, so remove it.
  # TODO: better document the false positive cases, or remove this patch.
  patch :DATA

  def install
    # Install to the Cellar, but direct modules to HOMEBREW_PREFIX
    args = ["--prefix=#{prefix}",
            "--rocks-tree=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
            "--sysconfdir=#{etc}/luarocks"]

    if build.with? "luajit"
      args << "--with-lua-include=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/include/luajit-2.0"
      args << "--lua-suffix=jit"
      args << "--with-lua=luajit"
    end

    system "./configure", *args
    system "make"
    system "make install"
  end

  def caveats; <<-EOS.undent
    Rocks install to: #{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/luarocks/rocks

    You may need to run `luarocks install` inside the Homebrew build
    environment for rocks to successfully build. To do this, first run `brew sh`.
    EOS
  end

  test do
    opoo "Luarocks test script installs 'lpeg'"
    system "#{bin}/luarocks", "install", "lpeg"
    system "lua", "-llpeg", "-e", 'print ("Hello World!")'
  end
end

__END__
diff --git a/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua b/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua
index 67c3ce0..2d149c7 100644
--- a/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua
+++ b/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua
@@ -669,29 +669,5 @@ end
 -- @return boolean or (boolean, string): true on success, false on failure,
 -- plus an error message.
 function check_command_permissions(flags)
-   local root_dir = path.root_dir(cfg.rocks_dir)
-   local ok = true
-   local err = ""
-   for _, dir in ipairs { cfg.rocks_dir, root_dir } do
-      if fs.exists(dir) and not fs.is_writable(dir) then
-         ok = false
-         err = "Your user does not have write permissions in " .. dir
-         break
-      end
-   end
-   local root_parent = dir.dir_name(root_dir)
-   if ok and not fs.exists(root_dir) and not fs.is_writable(root_parent) then
-      ok = false
-      err = root_dir.." does not exist and your user does not have write permissions in " .. root_parent
-   end
-   if ok then
-      return true
-   else
-      if flags["local"] then
-         err = err .. " \n-- please check your permissions."
-      else
-         err = err .. " \n-- you may want to run as a privileged user or use your local tree with --local."
-      end
-      return nil, err
-   end
+   return true
 end