I think "old style" is probably a misnomer. Support was added in 7.8 for a way to create very simple c modules without having to use the standard Pike module build system.
Note that this simplified method is not appropriate for creating modules that you want to distribute, and doesn't provide most (any?) of the functionality baked into the standard module makefiles.
Some additional information is included in the changes file... just try not to think of "old style" as equating to "outdated", as it doesn't.
Bill
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Lance Dillon wrote:
I was trying to create a new module, and I got this:
[riffraff@hobbes G3Object]$ pike -x module ** Old style module ** Running autoconf (with extra compat macros) autoconf --include=/usr/local/pike/7.8.8/include/pike
What does "Old style module" mean? What should I do to make it a "New style module"?