diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6d9dfcf..6cacf7c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/libIDL-0.8.14.tar.bz2
+libIDL-0.8.14.tar.bz2
diff --git a/deprecation.patch b/deprecation.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..006dc4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deprecation.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up libIDL-0.8.9/include/libIDL/IDL.h.in.deprecation libIDL-0.8.9/include/libIDL/IDL.h.in
+--- libIDL-0.8.9/include/libIDL/IDL.h.in.deprecation	2008-01-29 02:10:35.000000000 -0500
++++ libIDL-0.8.9/include/libIDL/IDL.h.in	2008-01-29 02:11:19.000000000 -0500
+@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ extern "C" {
+ #define IDL_CHECK_CAST(tree, thetype, name)			\
+ 	(IDL_check_type_cast(tree, thetype,			\
+ 			    __FILE__, __LINE__,			\
+-			    G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION)->u.name)
++			    G_STRFUNC)->u.name)
+ 
+ /* GLib 2.0 requires 64-bit types */
+ #define IDL_LL		@IDL_LL@