From 9c8aec1adb02dc508e127b0e6dea0970b622e8d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:35:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Mark dynamic plugins as deprecated.

---
 CHANGES        | 4 ++++
 Makefile.rules | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 204595b35e..ad6ea380af 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ Changed:
 
 - Set conservative=true by default in cross() and smartcross()
 
+Deprecated (can be removed in any future version):
+
+- Dynamic plugins compilation, deprecated in favor of opam rebuild mechanism.
+
 Removed:
 
 - aac and aacplus encoders, removed in favor of fdk-aac.
diff --git a/Makefile.rules b/Makefile.rules
index 4479b1693e..bc5b7fe646 100644
--- a/Makefile.rules
+++ b/Makefile.rules
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ $(foreach plug,$($(PROG)_PLUGINS),$(eval _OCAML_ALL_CFLAGS+=$($(plug)_packages:%
 $(foreach plug,$($(PROG)_PLUGINS),$(eval _OCAML_ALL_LFLAGS+=$($(plug)_ocamllflags)))
 
 plugins/%.$(s):
+	$(warning Dynamic plugin compilation is deprecated and can be removed in any future version!)
 	$(V)echo $(OCAMLCOMP) ${shared_flag} $@
 	$(V)$(OCAMLC) ${shared_flag} -linkpkg $($*_ocamlcflags) $($*_ocamllflags) \
 		$($*_clink) $($*_sources:.ml=.$(o)) -dontlink "$($*_dontlink)" -o $@