From 445b3458f74abe27be5a331d546d854ec1a296c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dag Sverre Seljebotn <dagss@student.matnat.uio.no>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:03:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecation warning for -X switch

---
 Cython/Compiler/CmdLine.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/CmdLine.py b/Cython/Compiler/CmdLine.py
index a423d2ac..2c8ed428 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/CmdLine.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/CmdLine.py
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ Options:
   -a, --annotate                 Produce a colorized HTML version of the source.
   --line-directives              Produce #line directives pointing to the .pyx source
   --cplus                        Output a c++ rather than c file.
-  -X, --directive <name>=<value>[,<name=value,...] Overrides a compiler directive
+  --directive <name>=<value>[,<name=value,...] Overrides a compiler directive
 """
+
 #The following experimental options are supported only on MacOSX:
 #  -C, --compile    Compile generated .c file to .o file
 #  -X, --link       Link .o file to produce extension module (implies -C)
@@ -80,6 +81,10 @@ def parse_command_line(args):
             elif option in ("-C", "--compile"):
                 options.c_only = 0
             elif option in ("-X", "--link"):
+                if option == "-X":
+                    print >>sys.stderr, "Deprecation warning: The -X command line switch will be changed to a"
+                    print >>sys.stderr, "shorthand for --directive in Cython 0.12. Please use --link instead."
+                    print >>sys.stderr
                 options.c_only = 0
                 options.obj_only = 0
             elif option in ("-+", "--cplus"):
-- 
2.26.2