ghc 7.1 says "Use -fvia-C instead" but -fvia-C is gone

[erikd]

Compiling on linux-powerpc with "GhcUnregisterised?=YES" I get:

ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.1.20110417 for powerpc-unknown-linux):
        This compiler was built without a native code generator
    Use -fvia-C instead

but the -fvia-C option was removed recently.

[igloo]

Thanks for the report.

On an unreg compiler, -fasm and -fllvm should probably just print a warning saying they'll be ignored.

[igloo]

You now just get a warning:

$ ghc -fasm q.hs

on the commandline:
    Warning: Compiler has no native codegen, so ignoring -fasm
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( q.hs, q.o )
Linking q ...

[dterei]

LLVM shouldn't be disabled in unreg builds. It works fine in both unreg and reg mode.

[dterei]

Reopening to track enabling LLVM in unreg mode again.

[dterei]

Fixed in b72af0e0d698ec06b4fbe86e5a44a116a31f0f94