too many C levels (limit is 200) in function at line 84 near 'chunk'

[amochkin]

Hi, after installing luasocket using luarocks on MacOS 10.12.1 (Sierra) got this error:

lua: /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/luarocks/loader.lua:117: error loading module 'socket' from file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/socket.lua':
    /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/socket.lua:88: too many C levels (limit is 200) in function at line 84 near 'chunk'

[diegonehab]

I'm not sure what is causing this error since I don't use LuaRocks. :/ @mascarenhas, can you help?

[mascarenhas]

This is a Lua parser error for too much syntactical nesting, which is odd. @amochkin, could you post your luarocks/loader.lua and socket.lua here?

[ewestbrook]

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Thanks!