Re: "Invalid contol char" error loading lfs

[Robert Hibberdine <bob.hibberdine@...>]

Tomas wrote:

>     Hi
>
> > I have installed Lua 5.0 on my small Linux system. The core stuff 
> > works fine. I am now trying to use the "luafilesystem" package from 
> > the Kepler project. I have compiled it and placed it on my system 
> > without problems. When I run the test program that comes with lfs I 
> > get the following error:
> >
> > /bin/lua: /usr/local/lib/lua/compat-5.1.lua:113: error loading module 
> > `lfs' (/usr/local/lib/lfs.so:1: invalid control char near `char(127)')
>
>     The error message "error loading module `??'" is produced by
> the loader which is called by `require'.  The message "invalid 
> control..."
> is produced by Lua's lexer.  It seems you're trying to load a binary
> library (lfs.so) as a Lua library.  Check your package.path and 
> package.cpath
> in compat-5.1.lua.
>
>     Tomas
Aha. I had

LUA_CPATH = /usr/local/lib/?.so
and
LUA_PATH = /usr/local/lib/?.so

Changing the latter to

LUA_PATH = /usr/local/lib/?.lua

Solved the problem.

Many thanks.

Bob