>>>>> "B" == Brad Cox <bcox / virtualschool.edu> writes:

B> but it looks like digest (what's that?) and socket.rb/socket.so are 
B> missing. Bizarre; no idea why/how,

 No, they are not missing

B> stat("/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-freebsd4.1.1/digest.so",0xbfbff7b0) 
B> = 0 (0x0)
B> open("/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-freebsd4.1.1/digest.so",0,0666) = 3
B> (0x3) 

[...]

B> stat("/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-freebsd4.1.1/socket.so",0xbfbff860) 
B> = 0 (0x0)
B> open("/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-freebsd4.1.1/socket.so",0,0666) = 3
B> (0x3) 

B> nor why the previous version worked at all.

 Which version : 1.6.6 ?


Guy Decoux