GHC HEAD build error

[Daniel Fischer]

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, 16:45:31, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build GHC HEAD but get the following error:
> 
> "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"   -H64m -O0 -fasm -Iincludes -Irts
> -Irts/dist/build -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name rts  -dcmm-lint      -i
> -irts -irts/dist/build -irts/dist/build/autogen -Irts/dist/build
> -Irts/dist/build/autogen            -optc-O2   -c
> rts/HeapStackCheck.cmm -o rts/dist/build/HeapStackCheck.o
> 
> rts/HeapStackCheck.cmm:159:305: parse error on input `('
> 
> The bug is in the GC_GENERIC macro on line 99:
> 
> Capability_interrupt(MyCapability())      != 0 :: CInt
> 
> However, I can't spot the problem.

I had the same recently, it's probably because GHCConstants.h and 
DerivedConstants.h have been moved but you still have them in include/ from 
a previous build.
Deleting them should fix it.