Controlling -fno-unit-at-a-time

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:59:58PM -0400, Ravi Nanavati wrote:
> If I understand the way things work, GHC decides whether or not to emit 
> the -fno-unit-at-a-time flag in -fvia-C compilation based on whether or 
> not the gcc used when compiling GHC supported the flag or not. I'm 
> running into trouble using precompiled GHC snapshots (that were compiled 
> on machines whose gcc supports -fno-unit-at-a-time) on a machine whose 
> gcc doesn't support it (a gcc 3.2 version, I believe).
> 
> Is there any way force GHC to not emit the flag (short of recompiling 
> from source)?

Not really. You could use a small gcc wrapper to remove it (you can
point to it with -pgmc if you don't want to contaminate your path with
it).

You could probably also change the 'f' to a 'D' with a hex editor, but
I'm not sure why anyone would prefer that solution.


Thanks
Ian