[ruby-talk:00148] inability to load extension modules in 1.2, core dump

Ok.. 1.1d9 worked with no problems, and no significant or relevent changes
to my operating system happened since then when I upgraded ruby to 1.2 -
With a normal ./configure, make, and make install trying to load an
extension library, (for instance, socket.so) there is an error displaying
the line where the extension is attempted to load, a LoadError is given,
and then the _exact_ path where the particular library exists is given in
the error claiming that the lib does not exist. I then compiled ruby with
only the --with-static-linked-ext, and once again ruby was compiled
without error or significant warning - now ruby just coredumps immediatly
upon being loaded. This really, truly puts a kink in my ruby activities.

Thank you.