dev-util/bnfc-2.2 fails to compile with: ... [ebuild R ] dev-util/bnfc-2.2 USE="doc*" 0 kB ... [37 of 49] Compiling JavaTop ( formats/java/JavaTop.hs, formats/java/JavaTop.o ) [38 of 49] Compiling CFtoAlex2 ( formats/haskell2/CFtoAlex2.hs, formats/haskell2/CFtoAlex2.o ) formats/haskell2/CFtoAlex2.hs:204:3: lexical error in string/character literal at character '\t' make: *** [all] Error 1 * * ERROR: dev-util/bnfc-2.2 failed. Reproducible: Always root@vilm:/root(137)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.6_rc3 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.28-rc6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-rc6-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:39:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs aiglx alsa amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bjam blas bluetooth bonobo boo boost bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli corba cracklib cran crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus device-mapper dga dia divx djvu dlloader dmi doc dri ds3490 dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph eds effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo examples exif expat extra fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx galago gd gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http hvm iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kde4 kerberos kexi keyring ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo lzw mad maildir math matroska matrox midi mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs numarray numeric obex ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole opengl openmp pae pam pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png posix postgres postscript pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks python qhull quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl session slang slp smp sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg sysfs t1lib tcl tcpd tex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk truetype unicode userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Any news?
Thanks for reporting! Which ghc version is this? I've put bnfc-2.4_beta into portage, which should work better with more recent ghc versions. Don't worry that it's a beta, it's the only version they publish on their homepage. Please reopen this bug if it doesn't work properly for you.
