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
19 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
20 function. If you need this function, you now need
21 to request the 'waitpid' module.
23 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
24 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
25 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
26 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
28 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
29 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
30 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
31 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
33 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
34 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
35 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
36 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
37 may change again in the future once glibc provides
40 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
42 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
43 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
44 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
46 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
47 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
49 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
50 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
52 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
53 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
55 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
56 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
59 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
60 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
62 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
63 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
66 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
67 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
68 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
69 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
71 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
72 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
73 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
74 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
77 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
78 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
79 get the functions that were previously provided.
81 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
82 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
84 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
85 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
86 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
89 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
90 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
91 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
94 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
95 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
96 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
99 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
100 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
101 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
103 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
104 must contain an explicit dependency on
107 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
108 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
109 effect except on very old platforms.
111 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
112 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
114 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
116 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
119 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
122 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
123 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
125 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
126 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
129 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
130 rather than only defined to 1.
132 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
133 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
134 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
135 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
136 include <unistd.h>. For all other
137 functions provided by this module,
138 continue to include "openat.h".
140 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
141 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
144 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
145 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
147 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
148 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
149 "long options" and "options with optional
150 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
152 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
155 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
156 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
157 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
158 The calling convention of the functions
159 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
161 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
162 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
163 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
164 The calling convention of the functions
165 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
167 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
168 The maint.mk file was copied from
169 coreutils, and the old
170 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
171 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
172 this will add several new checks. If some
173 new check is annoying, add the name of the
174 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
177 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
179 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
181 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
183 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
185 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
186 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
187 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
190 val = c_strtod (...);
191 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
194 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
195 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
197 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
198 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
200 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
201 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
202 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
203 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
204 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
205 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
207 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
210 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
213 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
216 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
218 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
220 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
223 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
226 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
229 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
232 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
235 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
238 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
239 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
240 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
241 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
242 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
244 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
245 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
246 socket descriptors are now compatible with
247 file descriptors. In general, this change
248 will simply improve your code's portability
249 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
250 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
251 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
252 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
253 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
254 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
256 This change does not remove the need to call
257 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
258 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
259 when you include the sys_socket module; while
260 the functionality will be restored soon, for
261 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
262 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
264 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
266 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
267 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
268 equivalent function, use function
269 xconcatenated_filename from module
272 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
273 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
274 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
275 You may need to create a symbolic link for
276 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
277 installed in $prefix/lib.
279 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
282 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
283 to "glthread/lock.h".
284 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
287 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
288 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
289 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
291 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
292 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
293 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
294 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
296 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
297 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
298 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
299 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
301 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
302 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
303 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
304 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
305 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
307 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
309 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
312 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
315 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
316 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
318 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
319 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
320 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
321 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
323 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
324 implementations; clients that use controlled
325 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
326 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
327 module instead for smaller code size.
329 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
330 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
331 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
332 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
333 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
335 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
336 implementations; clients that use controlled
337 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
338 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
339 module instead for smaller code size.
341 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
342 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
343 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
344 module if you need it.
346 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
349 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
352 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
353 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
354 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
355 module description for the applicable license.
357 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
358 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
359 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
361 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
362 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
363 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
366 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
367 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
368 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
370 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
372 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
373 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
375 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
376 error to standard error; that is now the
377 caller's responsibility. It returns an
378 error code of type enum strtol_error
379 instead of the integer option value, and stores
380 the option value via a new int * argument.
381 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
382 are now an option name and option argument
383 instead of an option argument and a type string,
384 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
386 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
388 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
389 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
391 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
394 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
395 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
397 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
400 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
401 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
405 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
406 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
411 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
412 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
413 that has a different signature.
415 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
416 #include "sigprocmask.h"
420 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
421 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
422 'long double' as a type exists.
424 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
425 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
426 des Renamed to crypto/des.
427 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
428 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
429 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
430 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
431 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
432 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
433 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
434 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
435 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
436 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
437 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
438 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
439 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
440 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
441 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
442 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
443 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
444 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
445 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
446 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
448 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
449 #include "vasprintf.h"
453 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
456 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
458 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
459 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
460 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
462 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
463 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
464 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
466 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
469 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
470 iconv_string -> str_iconv
471 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
474 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
475 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
476 carray-list You can pass NULL.
484 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
485 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
489 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
492 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
493 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
494 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
495 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
496 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
497 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
498 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
499 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
500 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
501 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
502 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
504 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
505 using the "des" module directly.
507 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
508 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
509 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
511 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
512 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
513 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
518 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
525 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
526 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil