[PATCH] Allow using system luajit

[J. Neuschäfer]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 03:51:42PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Subject: [PATCH] Allow using system luajit
> 
> Thanks much for the patch. I installed it (r73471 and 2), since the
> changes do no apparent harm if the new option isn't used. At least I was
> still able to build in the usual way.
> 
> Administrivia: I put myself in as the "copyright" holder of the new
> files for consistency, although if you want to be listed, no problem. It
> makes no practical difference. I did list you in the ChangeLog entries.

That's absolutely fine by me, no change necessary.

>     This does currently *not* result in a successful build (tested with
>     openresty luajit 2.1 as packaged in Debian and Alpine); some more
>     work is required for that, such as not relying on lua_rawlen or the
>     internal lj_arch.h header.
> 
> That will be up to Luigi, or you, or some other contributor.
> I forwarded your msg to Luigi.
> 
>     It has a second purpose though: Allowing texlive to be built without
>     luajit (configure --without-luajit), which is a reasonable stop-gap
>     solution for architectures to which luajit has not been ported yet.
> 
> Yes, that's a good thing.
> 
> Thanks again. -k

Thanks for your work on maintaining TeX Live! :)

  jn