
How very clever of you and thank you very much. Changing ‘ to 1 does fix the problem. I would have thought this would work
cabal install --with-gcc=gcc-4.9
But sadly I still got the same error.
Do I need a special version of cpphs?
Dominic Steinitz
dominic@steinitz.org
http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com
On 23 Dec 2014, at 15:58, Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Dominic Steinitz
wrote: To restate the problem: this is from code that has not been changed for 2 years. I get Examples.hs:42:42: Parse error in pattern: con Failed, modules loaded: none.
I think I see the problem. Are you by any chance on a machine which has clang as its default C compiler (OS X, FreeBSD 9.3?/10.x/STABLE/CURRENT, possibly others)? cpp will in that case malfunction because it won't substitute macro parameters after the single quote:
minM' (con a#) (con b#) = \
-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net