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Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. It can be embedded into various application as scripting language.

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USE flags

USE flags for dev-lang/lua A powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications

deprecated	make deprecated data structures/routines available
readline	Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask dev-lang/lua

Configuration

Enabling different Lua versions

The app-eselect/eselect-lua package provides an eselect module to switch between different Lua slots. Once this package has been installed, list available Lua versions by running:

user $eselect lua list

To enable the version designated by number n in the list, use lua set:

user $eselect lua set n

See also

• Lua/Porting notes