4 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
5 now expects the complete list of modules and other
6 options on the command line. If you want to
7 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
8 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
10 User visible incompatible changes
11 ---------------------------------
15 2010-09-30 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use get_date
16 for get_date(), or help us write getdate-posix
17 for getdate(). Also, doc/getdate.texi has been
18 renamed to doc/get_date.texi.
20 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
21 function. If you need this function, you now need
22 to request the 'waitpid' module.
24 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
25 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
26 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
27 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
29 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
30 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
31 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
32 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
34 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
35 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
36 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
37 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
38 may change again in the future once glibc provides
41 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
43 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
44 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
45 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
47 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
48 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
50 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
51 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
53 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
54 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
56 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
57 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
60 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
61 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
63 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
64 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
67 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
68 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
69 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
70 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
72 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
73 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
74 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
75 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
78 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
79 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
80 get the functions that were previously provided.
82 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
83 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
85 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
86 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
87 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
90 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
91 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
92 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
95 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
96 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
97 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
100 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
101 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
102 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
104 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
105 must contain an explicit dependency on
108 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
109 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
110 effect except on very old platforms.
112 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
113 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
115 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
117 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
120 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
123 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
124 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
126 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
127 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
130 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
131 rather than only defined to 1.
133 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
134 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
135 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
136 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
137 include <unistd.h>. For all other
138 functions provided by this module,
139 continue to include "openat.h".
141 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
142 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
145 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
146 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
148 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
149 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
150 "long options" and "options with optional
151 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
153 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
156 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
157 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
158 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
159 The calling convention of the functions
160 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
162 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
163 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
164 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
165 The calling convention of the functions
166 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
168 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
169 The maint.mk file was copied from
170 coreutils, and the old
171 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
172 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
173 this will add several new checks. If some
174 new check is annoying, add the name of the
175 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
178 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
180 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
182 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
184 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
186 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
187 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
188 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
191 val = c_strtod (...);
192 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
195 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
196 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
198 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
199 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
201 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
202 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
203 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
204 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
205 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
206 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
208 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
211 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
214 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
217 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
219 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
221 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
224 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
227 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
230 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
233 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
236 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
239 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
240 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
241 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
242 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
243 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
245 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
246 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
247 socket descriptors are now compatible with
248 file descriptors. In general, this change
249 will simply improve your code's portability
250 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
251 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
252 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
253 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
254 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
255 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
257 This change does not remove the need to call
258 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
259 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
260 when you include the sys_socket module; while
261 the functionality will be restored soon, for
262 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
263 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
265 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
267 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
268 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
269 equivalent function, use function
270 xconcatenated_filename from module
273 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
274 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
275 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
276 You may need to create a symbolic link for
277 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
278 installed in $prefix/lib.
280 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
283 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
284 to "glthread/lock.h".
285 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
288 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
289 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
290 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
292 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
293 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
294 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
295 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
297 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
298 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
299 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
300 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
302 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
303 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
304 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
305 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
306 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
308 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
310 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
313 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
316 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
317 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
319 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
320 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
321 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
322 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
324 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
325 implementations; clients that use controlled
326 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
327 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
328 module instead for smaller code size.
330 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
331 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
332 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
333 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
334 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
336 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
337 implementations; clients that use controlled
338 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
339 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
340 module instead for smaller code size.
342 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
343 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
344 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
345 module if you need it.
347 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
350 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
353 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
354 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
355 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
356 module description for the applicable license.
358 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
359 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
360 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
362 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
363 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
364 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
367 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
368 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
369 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
371 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
373 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
374 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
376 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
377 error to standard error; that is now the
378 caller's responsibility. It returns an
379 error code of type enum strtol_error
380 instead of the integer option value, and stores
381 the option value via a new int * argument.
382 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
383 are now an option name and option argument
384 instead of an option argument and a type string,
385 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
387 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
389 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
390 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
392 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
395 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
396 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
398 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
401 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
402 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
406 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
407 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
412 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
413 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
414 that has a different signature.
416 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
417 #include "sigprocmask.h"
421 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
422 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
423 'long double' as a type exists.
425 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
426 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
427 des Renamed to crypto/des.
428 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
429 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
430 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
431 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
432 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
433 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
434 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
435 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
436 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
437 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
438 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
439 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
440 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
441 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
442 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
443 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
444 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
445 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
446 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
447 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
449 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
450 #include "vasprintf.h"
454 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
457 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
459 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
460 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
461 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
463 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
464 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
465 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
467 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
470 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
471 iconv_string -> str_iconv
472 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
475 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
476 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
477 carray-list You can pass NULL.
485 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
486 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
490 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
493 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
494 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
495 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
496 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
497 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
498 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
499 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
500 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
501 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
502 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
503 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
505 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
506 using the "des" module directly.
508 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
509 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
510 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
512 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
513 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
514 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
519 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
526 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
527 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil