Robert Scheck pointed out that I managed to break internal lua Friday  
night.

The symptom looks like this:

error: Lua script failed: [string "./local/lom.lua"]:24: module 'lxp'  
not found:
         no field package.preload['lxp']
         no file './lxp.lua'
         no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lxp.lua'
         no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lxp/init.lua'
         no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lxp.lua'
         no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lxp/init.lua'
         no file './lxp.so'
         no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lxp.so'
         no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/ 
loadall.so'popt-1.13-4.fc10.i386

There's at least two issues there.

1) the _G paths in lua likely should be made rpm specific, perhaps
     /usr/lib/rpm/lua
although lua makes a sharper distinction between moudule.lua scripts
(in /usr/share/lua/5.1) and compiled module.so (in /usr/lib/lua/5.1)
so one /usr/lib/rpm/lua may not be sufficient.

2) there's more that I have to do to do to get both a byte coded  
wrapper and
a lxp.so module planted internally to rpm.

These commands (relative to todays date) will undo my damage on Friday
	cd lua
	cvs up -D "2 days ago" Makefile.am

I'll backout the b0rkage tomorrow if I can't repair.

I'm still getting up to speed on lua programming.

FWIW, if interested in lua, install "luarocks", the lua package manager.

Your life will be lots easier than building from source. Took a while  
to figger ...

73 de Jeff