Emit deprecation warning for --use-{gcc,llvm,clang}

Closes #24864.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb
index c6ae22294..c1d5f4739 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ module Homebrew extend self
   def install
     raise FormulaUnspecifiedError if ARGV.named.empty?
 
+    {
+      'gcc' => 'gcc-4.2',
+      'llvm' => 'llvm-gcc',
+      'clang' => 'clang'
+    }.each_pair do |old, new|
+      opt = "--use-#{old}"
+      if ARGV.include? opt then opoo <<-EOS.undent
+        #{opt.inspect} is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
+        Please use "--cc=#{new}" instead.
+        EOS
+      end
+    end
+
     if ARGV.include? '--head'
       raise "Specify `--HEAD` in uppercase to build from trunk."
     end