Mention the lua intf move in NEWS. Print an error if lua wasn't found and wasn't...

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e4cec4931bdc4ce66c8909b67baeba377e8f24d9..cfe4e5e20a9eb0727ad6c3397c509f2885a38c4e 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ Service discovery:
 Stream output:
  * New smem module, streaming to memory
 
+Interfaces:
+ * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
+   and oldhttp.
+ * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
+
 Mac OS X Interface:
  * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5f549c27ceea59a9b30cb379832d9780e7956eee..e0f7397d01afc4556a4580b967312542b7e5fc91 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1794,6 +1794,8 @@ then
   if test "x${have_lua}" = "xyes" ;  then
      VLC_ADD_LIBS([lua],[$LUA_LIBS])
      VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([lua],[$LUA_CFLAGS])
+  else
+      AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find lua. Lua is needed for some interfaces (rc, telnet, http) as well as many other custom scripts. Use --disable-lua to ignore this error.])
   fi
 fi
 AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_LUA, [test "${have_lua}" = "yes"])