Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

[harry]

I'm trying to build 7.10.1 RC on Debian Jessie. I get an error:

configure: error: in
`/ghc-7.10.0.20141222/libffi/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu':
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

config.log shows:

configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "libffi"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libffi"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "libffi 3.1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "http://github.com/atgreen/libffi/issues"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "libffi"
| #define VERSION "3.1"
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| #define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #ifdef __STDC__
| # include <limits.h>
| #else
| # include <assert.h>
| #endif
|                    Syntax error
configure:12860: error: in
`/ghc-7.10.0.20141222/libffi/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu':
configure:12862: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

This can be reproduced by running the following commands in the
debian:jessie docker image:

apt-get update
apt-get install ncurses-dev curl gcc ghc make libgmp-dev xz-utils
curl
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1-rc1/ghc-7.10.0.20141222-src.tar.xz
| tar xJ
cd ghc-*
./configure
make

Any suggestions for someone who knows nothing about c or cpp?



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