From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T11:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on AIX 4.3.3


On May 11, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> I just built Ruby 1.8.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 box using gcc.  When I try to 
> run
> something that uses "require 'net/http'", I get the following:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:21:in `require': No such file 
> to
> load -- socket (LoadError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:21
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:26:in `require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:26
>         from ./testit:3:in `require'
>         from ./testit:3
>
> And, I can't fins any file named 'socket*' under /usr/local/lib

Socket is a C extension; I would strongly suspect that it failed to 
compile when you built ruby. Compiles of extensions will fail silently.

Try cd'ing into the source/ext/socket/ directory and "ruby extconf.rb; 
make"; This will display any errors.