Error installing gnuplot: undefined reference to `luaL_checkint'

Question

I am making an attempt to install the program gnuplot version 5.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04. For this, I made the following steps.

Steps to install Gnuplot.
1) Run 'sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev', necessary for the Lua installation to run properly.
2) Download Lua.
3) In the Lua root directory, run 'make linux'.
4) In the Lua root directory, run 'make test'.
5) In the Lua root directory, run 'make install'.
6) Download gnuplot.
7) In the gnuplot root directory, run './configure --with-lua=yes'.
8) In the gnuplot root directory, run 'make'.

In the last step, I get the errors

/GNUplot/Source/gnuplot-5.0.1/src/../term/lua.trm:288: undefined reference to `luaL_checkint'

and

/GNUplot/Source/gnuplot-5.0.1/src/../term/lua.trm:254: undefined reference to `luaL_checkint'

Googling on this error does not seem to give me any useful hits to solve the problem...

How can I solve this?

ADDITIONAL INFORMTATION, ON REQUEST OF the user lemonslice:

The output of ./configure --with-lua=yes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_npknqRCNbCM09ua3ZlSjR1X0k/view?usp=sharing

Can you put the output `configure --with-lua=yes` ? Especially the part with Lua libraries — lemonslice, Aug 25 '15 at 16:39
We're sorry, but Ubuntu 14.10 is an end-of life product and is not supported any more, so it's off-topic here too. Please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Upgrades on how to upgrade. — Fabby, Aug 25 '15 at 20:24
@Fabby. Okay. I will try with `14.04 LTS` instead and see if I get the same error. Release `14.04 LTS` is still supported, right? — Adriaan, Aug 25 '15 at 22:38
Right, and what I'm running... Are you using the same `/home` partition when you reinstall? Or do you wipe everything and start from scratch? — Fabby, Aug 25 '15 at 23:04
@Fabby. It's another computer and I wipe everything and start from scratch. — Adriaan, Aug 26 '15 at 08:50
@Fabby. I am, unfortunately, getting the same error with `14.04 LTS`. I will add the tag `14.04`. Will this post be taking off hold? — Adriaan, Aug 26 '15 at 09:04
@lemonslice I just put the output of `./configure --with-lua=yes` there. — Adriaan, Aug 27 '15 at 08:03
Check `Line 3731: lua is not found.` You should install lua libs from a debian package or add the location of the lua you have built from source to your `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` variable. — lemonslice, Aug 27 '15 at 12:27
@lemonslice As I tried to explain with the steps I mentioned in my post, I most certainly did install `lua` ;). I downloaded it from http://www.lua.org/download.html. So I guess it might be the location of lua problem you mentioned. I'll try to solve this, but I, unfortunately, do not have a lot experience with stuff like that. Could you perhaps be more specific in what exactly I should add to `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` and how? Thanks! — Adriaan, Aug 27 '15 at 13:12
@lemonslice I installed `Lua 5.3.1`. In the `config.log` it says I need the file `lua.pc`, but it didn't come with the `lua-5.3.1.tar.gz`. Supposedly, the `lua.pc` is in the corresponding development files, but I cannot find the `Lua 5.3.1` development files on the Lua website. — Adriaan, Aug 27 '15 at 13:40
It is missing from the download (cf. http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-02/msg00814.html), you might want to stick to some pre-packaged lua version that provides the `.pc` file (as `liblualib-dev`). — lemonslice, Aug 27 '15 at 16:01
@lemonslice The `liblualib-dev` does not exist. I installed `liblua5.2-dev` and I still have the same problem :(. But I think that on lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-02/msg00814.html they say that as of version 5.2, `lua.pc` is dropped. I'll try to install an older version then. Guess `gnuplot` is not exactly using the latest version of `lua` yet :(. — Adriaan, Aug 27 '15 at 22:26
@lemonslice Installing `liblua5.1-0-dev` also didn't help. Still get the same error. — Adriaan, Aug 27 '15 at 22:32
What is wrong with the `gnuplot` that is already in the repos? Why not `apt-get install gnuplot`?? — chicks, Sep 04 '15 at 11:49
@chicks I want to use the latest features of `gnuplot 5.0.1`. The version offered with `apt-get install gnuplot` is unfortunately an older version. To be more precise, I see it's version `4.6.4-2` at this time. — Adriaan, Sep 07 '15 at 10:27
Even Ubuntu 15.04 only has 4.6.6. RHEL7 is also on 4.6, but Fedora 22 has gnuplot 5. Try installing Fedora 22. :) — chicks, Sep 07 '15 at 13:13

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 19 '15 at 03:46

I incur the same problem as you.

It appears that the gnuplot-5.0.1 is not Lua 5.3-compatible. It uses luaL_checkint, but Lua 5.3 is using luaL_checkinteger. You need to update the Gnuplot-5.0.1 file term/lua.trm as follows:

254       //t_num = luaL_checkint(L, 1);
255       t_num = luaL_checkinteger(L, 1); 
…
289       //t_num = luaL_checkint(L, 1);
290       t_num = luaL_checkinteger(L, 1);

Then, make and make install. It's OK in my Ubuntu 14.04

Error installing gnuplot: undefined reference to `luaL_checkint'

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