GHC and Panther (Mac OS X 10.3)

[ozone at algorithm.com.au]

On 20/11/2003, at 12:06 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:

> Hi,
>   I've just upgraded to OS X 10.3 and have been having some problems  
> with ghc.
>
> ...
>
> ghc -DUSE_READLINE=1 -L/sw/lib/ -lreadline -I/sw/include   -package  
> lang -c -cpp -o  
> /Users/tatd100/Documents/Work/Project/Tools/hmake-3.08/targets/ 
> powerpc-Darwin7/obj/hmake/Compat.o Compat.hs
> Compat.hs:1: parse error on input `#'
> make[1]: ***  
> [/Users/tatd100/Documents/Work/Project/Tools/hmake-3.08/targets/ 
> powerpc-Darwin7/obj/hmake/Compat.o] Error 1
> make: *** [targets/powerpc-Darwin7/hmake-ghc] Error 2
>
> I'm guessing that there's some binary compatibility issues here...  
> Could it be panther using gcc3.3?

This looks very much like a bug that a few other people have  
encountered with GHC and Panther; try adding

     -pgmP "gcc3 -E -traditional"

to your commandline, which will use the gcc 3.1 pre-processor.   
(Apple's cpp-3.3 adds some extra line and debugging information to the  
output, which is harmless in C but interacts badly with Haskell  
syntax.)


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