diff --git a/flang/include/flang/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h b/flang/include/flang/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h
--- a/flang/include/flang/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h
+++ b/flang/include/flang/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@
   /// Instrument the parse to get a more verbose log
   unsigned instrumentedParse_ : 1;
 
+  /// Enable Provenance to character-stream mapping. Allows e.g. IDEs to find
+  /// symbols based on source-code location. This is not needed in regular
+  /// compilation.
+  unsigned needProvenanceRangeToCharBlockMappings_ : 1;
+
   /// The input files and their types.
   std::vector<FrontendInputFile> inputs_;
 
@@ -201,7 +206,9 @@
   Fortran::parser::Encoding encoding_{Fortran::parser::Encoding::UTF_8};
 
 public:
-  FrontendOptions() : showHelp_(false), showVersion_(false) {}
+  FrontendOptions()
+      : showHelp_(false), showVersion_(false), instrumentedParse_(false),
+        needProvenanceRangeToCharBlockMappings_(false) {}
 
   // Return the appropriate input kind for a file extension. For example,
   /// "*.f" would return Language::Fortran.
diff --git a/flang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp b/flang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
--- a/flang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@
 
   if (opts.programAction_ == DebugDumpParsingLog)
     opts.instrumentedParse_ = true;
+
+  if (opts.programAction_ == DebugDumpProvenance)
+    opts.needProvenanceRangeToCharBlockMappings_ = true;
 }
 
 static InputKind ParseFrontendArgs(FrontendOptions &opts,
@@ -508,6 +511,9 @@
 
   if (frontendOptions.instrumentedParse_)
     fortranOptions.instrumentedParse = true;
+
+  if (frontendOptions.needProvenanceRangeToCharBlockMappings_)
+    fortranOptions.needProvenanceRangeToCharBlockMappings = true;
 }
 
 void CompilerInvocation::setSemanticsOpts(
diff --git a/flang/test/Driver/debug-provenance.f90 b/flang/test/Driver/debug-provenance.f90
--- a/flang/test/Driver/debug-provenance.f90
+++ b/flang/test/Driver/debug-provenance.f90
@@ -1,26 +1,28 @@
 ! Ensure argument -fdebug-dump-provenance works as expected.
 
-! REQUIRES: new-flang-driver
+!----------
+! RUN LINE
+!----------
+! RUN: %flang_fc1 -fdebug-dump-provenance %s  2>&1 | FileCheck %s
 
-!--------------------------
-! FLANG DRIVER (flang-new)
-!--------------------------
-! RUN: not %flang-new -fdebug-dump-provenance %s  2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=FLANG
+!----------------
+! EXPECTED OUTPUT
+!----------------
+! CHECK: AllSources:
+! CHECK-NEXT: AllSources range_ [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}] ({{[0-9]*}} bytes)
+! CHECK-NEXT:    [1..1] (1 bytes) -> compiler '?'(0x3f)
+! CHECK-NEXT:    [2..2] (1 bytes) -> compiler ' '(0x20)
+! CHECK-NEXT:    [3..3] (1 bytes) -> compiler '\'(0x5c)
+! CHECK-NEXT:    [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}] ({{[0-9]*}} bytes) -> file {{.*}}/debug-provenance.f90
+! CHECK-NEXT:    [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}] ({{[0-9]*}} bytes) -> compiler '(after end of source)'
+! CHECK-NEXT: CookedSource::provenanceMap_:
+! CHECK-NEXT: offsets [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}] -> provenances [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}] ({{[0-9]*}} bytes)
+! CHECK-NEXT: CookedSource::invertedMap_:
+! CHECK-NEXT: provenances [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}] ({{[0-9]*}} bytes) -> offsets [{{[0-9]*}}..{{[0-9]*}}]
+! CHECK-EMPTY:
 
-!----------------------------------------
-! FRONTEND FLANG DRIVER (flang-new -fc1)
-!----------------------------------------
-! RUN: %flang-new -fc1 -fdebug-dump-provenance %s  2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=FRONTEND
-
-!----------------------------------
-! EXPECTED OUTPUT WITH `flang-new`
-!----------------------------------
-! FLANG:warning: argument unused during compilation: '-fdebug-dump-provenance'
-
-!---------------------------------------
-! EXPECTED OUTPUT WITH `flang-new -fc1`
-!---------------------------------------
-! FRONTEND:AllSources:
-! FRONTEND:CookedSource::provenanceMap_:
+!-------------
+! TEST INPUT
+!------------
 program A
 end