#7678: GHC should compile cleanly with clang --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: thoughtpolice | Owner: thoughtpolice Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: Compiler Version: 7.7 | Keywords: clang Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Failure: Building GHC failed | Blockedby: Blocking: 7602 | Related: --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- I'm running into several difficulties (which I'll catalog shortly) building GHC HEAD with Clang 3.2. These mostly seem to be difficulties relating to the preprocessor and the fact clang does not really respect ```-traditional-cpp``` mode, and that it is stricter than gcc about whitespace and whatnot too. This means code like: {{{ {-# RULES "thing" ... #-} }}} becomes invalid: ```clang``` is strict about the fact that preprocessor definitions must occur on the beginning of a line. There seems to be a bug in the preprocessor directive source code to this effect (that it doesn't handle whitespace before a directive.) It's quite unfortunate, because we do this a lot. This also causes build failures in the parser due to some crazy CPP hackery we do. I'll follow up with that shortly. As a workaround, we may have to force ```CPP``` to just continue being ```cpp``` which will Do The Right Thing, while ```CC``` will use ```clang``` instead. Or we'll have to have some script that seds whitespace out or something. This currently blocks #7602 since I can't test my fix otherwise. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7678 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler