This applies to Lua 5.2 and 5.3.

From 7a1b4e0829124976878ca2765a8e546667a92ceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:11:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] apply existing non-executable library patch and install
 libraries as executable

---
 Makefile     | 6 +++---
 src/Makefile | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1aea8e6..bfcfed9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ INTERPRETER= lua
 COMPILER= luac
 TO_BIN= $(INTERPRETER) $(COMPILER)
 TO_INC= lua.h luaconf.h lualib.h lauxlib.h lua.hpp
-TO_LIB= liblua.a
+TO_LIB= liblua.a liblua.so liblua.so.${V}
 TO_PC=  lua-$(V).pc
 TO_MAN= lua.1 luac.1
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ R= $V.3
 all:	$(PLAT)
 
 $(PLATS):
-	cd src && $(MAKE) $@
+	cd src && $(MAKE) $@ V=$(V) R=$(R)
 
 clean:
 	cd src && $(MAKE) $@
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ install: dummy $(TO_PC)
 	cd src && $(MKDIR) $(INSTALL_BIN) $(INSTALL_INC) $(INSTALL_LIB) $(INSTALL_PC) $(INSTALL_MAN) $(INSTALL_LMOD) $(INSTALL_CMOD)
 	cd src && $(INSTALL_EXEC) $(TO_BIN) $(INSTALL_BIN)
 	cd src && $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TO_INC) $(INSTALL_INC)
-	cd src && $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TO_LIB) $(INSTALL_LIB)
+	cd src && $(INSTALL_EXEC) $(TO_LIB) $(INSTALL_LIB)
 	cd src && $(INSTALL_DATA) ../$(TO_PC) $(INSTALL_PC)
 	cd doc && $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TO_MAN) $(INSTALL_MAN)
 
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 7b4b2b7..c86476e 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ MYOBJS=
 PLATS= aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris
 
 LUA_A=	liblua.a
+LUA_SO= liblua.so
 CORE_O=	lapi.o lcode.o lctype.o ldebug.o ldo.o ldump.o lfunc.o lgc.o llex.o \
 	lmem.o lobject.o lopcodes.o lparser.o lstate.o lstring.o ltable.o \
 	ltm.o lundump.o lvm.o lzio.o
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ LUAC_T=	luac
 LUAC_O=	luac.o
 
 ALL_O= $(BASE_O) $(LUA_O) $(LUAC_O)
-ALL_T= $(LUA_A) $(LUA_T) $(LUAC_T)
+ALL_T= $(LUA_A) $(LUA_T) $(LUAC_T) $(LUA_SO)
 ALL_A= $(LUA_A)
 
 # Targets start here.
@@ -55,6 +56,11 @@ o:	$(ALL_O)
 
 a:	$(ALL_A)
 
+$(LUA_SO): $(CORE_O) $(LIB_O)
+	$(CC) -shared -ldl -Wl,-soname,$(LUA_SO).$(V) -o $@.$(R) $? -lm $(MYLDFLAGS)
+	ln -sf $(LUA_SO).$(R) $(LUA_SO).$(V)
+	ln -sf $(LUA_SO).$(R) $(LUA_SO)
+
 $(LUA_A): $(BASE_O)
 	$(AR) $@ $(BASE_O)
 	$(RANLIB) $@
-- 
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