From 9ac7e19e35b02c02e15abd3abc4e7b5c8b62752d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gustavsson?= <bjorn@erlang.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:57:10 +0100
Subject: filename documentation: Recommend against using filename:find_src/1,2

---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/filename.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filename.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filename.xml
index bc3a616d39..9296319b83 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filename.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/filename.xml
@@ -295,6 +295,12 @@
         <p>Finds the source filename and compiler options for a module.
           The result can be fed to <c>compile:file/2</c> in order to
           compile the file again.</p>
+
+	<warning><p>We don't recommend using this function. If possible,
+	use <seealso marker="beam_lib">beam_lib(3)</seealso> to extract
+	the abstract code format from the BEAM file and compile that
+	instead.</p></warning>
+
         <p>The <c><anno>Beam</anno></c> argument, which can be a string or an atom,
           specifies either the module name or the path to the source
           code, with or without the <c>".erl"</c> extension. In either
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