Bruce,

> Notice from module atexit:
>   This module is obsolete.
> ...
> Notice from module error:
>   If you are using GNU gettext version 0.16.1 or older, add the
> 
> This sounds like something I've said before: Should recommended procedures
> *not* trigger "this is obsolete" type messages?

So, what do you suggest? Should the recommended procedure in the documentation
be different? Or should the 'posix-modules' command accept --with-obsolete/
--without-obsolete options?

Patches and suggestions welcome.

> (sharutils also runs into these 
> messages because of cascaded dependencies requiring obsolete stuff.)

This should be fixed since 2008-11-02. Nowadays, the handling of obsolete 
modules
is as documented here:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Obsolete-modules.html>

> This is all I noticed out of the three thousand four hundred odd lines
> of output.
> That is very impressive and impossible to eyeball parse.

I would use 'grep' to filter out the uninteresting parts of the log.

Bruno

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