So the lua_LIBS variable should contain the link flag for the library, not a -L flag. It also seems unlikely that that particular path is correct. Maybe it should be like this? lua_LIBS="-L/home/user/local/lib -llua" YES! The vampire was buried right here. lua_LIBS="-L/home/user/loca...

Well there's you problem, I never heard of this magical "" version. Try passing 5.2 as luaversion instead. lua_LIBS=-L/home/user/user/lib/ lua_CFLAGS=-I/home/user/local/include/ ./configure --prefix=/home/user/local/ --with-lua=lua --with-luaversion=5.2 finishes successful but with ... ch...

Hello. There is a project which use love-0.9.1 and lua-5.2. There are no them in official gentoo's repos so I've decided to build it from source (in prefix of course). For prefix was used "/home/user/local/" All sources was taken from official sites. Firstly I've build lua. $ make linux $ ...