Configure fails

[b1tw0rker]

• [x ] This is not a support question, I have read about opensource and will send support questions to the IRC channel, Github Discussions or the mailing list.
• [x ] I have read and understood the 'out in the open' support policy

• Program: dnsdist
• Issue type: Bug report

Short description

Configure fails coz of lua. But lua is available.

Environment

• Operating system: Rocky Linux release 9.2 (Blue Onyx) - x64
• Software version: 1.8.2
• Software source: compiled yourself

Steps to reproduce

1. Download Source from tarball: https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/ 1.8.2
2. Installe dependencies e.g devel packages
3. ./configure
4. ./configure --with-lua=/usr/bin/lua (second try)

Expected behaviour

configure the program withou errors.

Actual behaviour

checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA... no
configure: error: No Lua not found, but is mandatory

Second try (with: ./configure --with-lua=/usr/bin/lua)

checking which Lua implementation to use... /usr/bin/lua
checking for LUA... no
configure: error: Selected Lua (/usr/bin/lua) not found

Other information

In the dnsdist documentation is also a small but ichy bug.
Page: https://dnsdist.org/guides/dns-over-https.html

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addDOHLocal('2001:db8:1:f00::1', '/etc/ssl/certs/example.com.pem', '/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key', "/dns", {customResponseHeaders={["x-foo"]="bar"}}

[Habbie]

Can you show what (Lua) packages you installed?

[Habbie]

./configure --with-lua=/usr/bin/lua (second try)

This is the wrong argument. Moving this to Discussions as it looks like a support question.

[Habbie]

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Thanks! Want to send a Pull Request for that? The source is here: https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/blob/master/pdns/dnsdistdist/docs/guides/dns-over-https.rst#L28

[b1tw0rker]

I sended a Pull Request.