Re: Continued tidying up of ltdl

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 19, 2000, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I can't think of any way to get deprecation warnings either.  Except
>> by renaming the header file and adding a `#warn' line to the old
>> header.  Ugh!

> Ah.  That gives me an idea... how about this?

*blush*  Nah!  Too obvious :-)  

Hmm...  Except that the `#' or `#warning' should be indented, so that
preprocessors that don't understand `#warning' don't complain about
it.  Also, it would probably be a good idea to enclose this whole
thing in `#ifdef __STDC__'.

But the more I think of it, the more I think we shouldn't enable the
backward-compatible names by default.  After all, someone who switches
to libltdl in their sources will hopefully notice the problem
immediately, and either defer the upgrade, enable the
backward-compatibility flag or adjust his/her sources to use the new
names.  Then, there's no need for a soon-to-become-useless -Define to
enable the new names.

Pre-installed libltdl may have this problem, though.  Nothing that
autoconf couldn't take care of.

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