0003079: Cannot load a windows save file under linux - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tracker

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(0009979) KiloByte (manager) 2010-12-28 14:03	The version of Lua in contrib includes a patch by neunon that makes it incompatible with other luas. It provides compatibility across different endianness but not different word width. On about any platform other than Windows we use system Lua -- less disk waste, and security teams in most Linux/BSD distributions veto packages using "convenience copies" of libraries, for a number of reasons. Sadly, this means it'd be hard to make changes to Lua. The patch we use has hardly any purpose, too, since big-endian platforms are practically dead. Greensnark said something about a way to save lua markers without writing precompiled code. That would avoid the whole issue altogether.

(0009983) galehar (administrator) 2010-12-28 15:36 edited on: 2011-01-02 15:32	So, I guess that means I can work around the problem by setting BUILD_LUA. Also, shouldn't we reverse the endianness patch? I think platform compatibility is worth more than supporting obsolete platforms.

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