I've never seen this, but google seems to indicate that you might have grep options specified and it could be interfering with libtool?
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22ignoring%20invalid%20character%20%60%5C033%27%20in%20script%22 Patrick On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:30 PM, John Elaine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to compile the C bindings for Zookeeper (uses libtool), but I > am unable to do so. When I run make, I receive the following error: > > /usr/bin/ld:.libs/libzookeeper_st.ver:2: ignoring invalid character > `\033' in script/usr/bin/ld:.libs/libzookeeper_st.ver:2: ignoring > invalid character `3' in > script/usr/bin/ld:.libs/libzookeeper_st.ver:2: ignoring invalid > character `5' in script/usr/bin/ld:.libs/libzookeeper_st.ver:2: syntax > error in VERSION script > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > The detailed output of make command is available here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35530964/zookeeper-compiling-error-syntax-error-in-version-script > > Please let me know how I can resolve this issue. > > - John
