"Invalid contol char" error loading lfs

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

Hi all,

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)')
stack traceback:
       [C]: in function `error'
       /usr/local/lib/lua/compat-5.1.lua:113: in function `loader'
       /usr/local/lib/lua/compat-5.1.lua:189: in function 
</usr/local/lib/lua/compat-5.1.lua:185>
       /usr/local/lib/lua/compat-5.1.lua:213: in function `require'
       /tmp/test.lua:7: in main chunk
       [C]: ?


I've had a look at the archives and have seen something about null 
characters not being permitted in files but that was for lua v4.....

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Bob