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@@ -102,11 +102,15 @@ switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances. --enable-deprecated=LEVEL Guile may contain features that are `deprecated'. When a feature is - deprecated, it means that it is still there and fully functional, - but that there is a better way of achieving the same thing, and we'd - rather have you use this better way. This allows us to eventually - remove the old implementation and helps to keep Guile reasonably - clean of historic baggage. + deprecated, it means that it is still there, but that there is a + better way of achieving the same thing, and we'd rather have you use + this better way. This allows us to eventually remove the old + implementation and helps to keep Guile reasonably clean of historic + baggage. + + Deprecated features are considered harmful; using them is likely a + bug. See below for the related notion of `discouraged' features, + which are OK but have fallen out of favour. See the file NEWS for a list of features that are currently deprecated. Each entry will also tell you what you should replace @@ -152,6 +156,17 @@ switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances. The default is `--enable-deprecated=yes'. +--disable-discouraged + + In addition to deprecated features, Guile can also contain things + that are merely `discouraged'. It is OK to continue to use these + features in old code, but new code should avoid them since there are + better alternatives. + + There is nothing wrong with a discouraged feature per se, but they + might have strange names, or be non-standard, for example. Avoiding + them will make your code better. + --disable-shared --- Do not build shared libraries. --disable-static --- Do not build static libraries. |