ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps

[Michael Marte]

> > ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps.
> > It accepts \ at the end of a line but not at the beginning of the
> > following line.
>
> It works ok here.  There's a well-known problem with string gaps in conjunction with CPP; see
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/options-phases.html#C-PRE-PROCESSOR

In fact, there was a (useless) -cpp in my Makefile.

Thank you,
Michael