Re: gcc-looking error when building GHC 6.8.3 from source - "directives may not be used inside a macro argument"

Hi Jeff, On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:21:34PM -0500, Jeff Evans wrote:

The first of the ghc errors is "RtsFlags.c:1120:1: directives may not be used inside a macro argument" which is followed by many more (I think this is the real cause though). I searched around and it seems like a gcc "limitation" (not supporting something that is not part of the C standard but people still wanted). But even then it has supposedly been supported since gcc 3.2, and I'm using 3.4.

Try running the command manually, but append -v to the commandline. This will show you how gcc is being invoked, and it'll also pass -v to gcc which will therefore announce its version number. Thanks Ian