lua52 socket broken?

[Ted Unangst]

is lua52socket broken?

Lua 5.2.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> require "socket"
/usr/local/bin/lua52:/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/core.so: undefined symbol 
'luaL_putchar'
/usr/local/bin/lua52:/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/core.so: undefined symbol 
'luaL_typerror'
error loading module 'socket.core' from file 
'/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/core.so':
        Cannot load specified object