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 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
16 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
17 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
18 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
19 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
21 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
22 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
23 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
24 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
25 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
27 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
28 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
30 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
31 is now set to "no", not to ":".
33 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
36 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
37 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
39 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
40 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
42 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
43 default; to retain robust handling of directories
44 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
45 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
47 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
50 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
51 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
52 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
54 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
55 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
56 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
57 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
58 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
59 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
60 rmdir header dosname.h.
65 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
66 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
67 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
68 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
69 (which should have been internal to the module
70 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
71 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
72 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
73 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
76 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
77 module no longer guarantees that the following are
78 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
79 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
81 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
82 function. If you need this function, you now need
83 to request the 'iswblank' module.
85 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
87 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
88 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
90 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
91 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
93 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
94 parse-datetime module for the replacement
95 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
96 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
97 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
98 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
100 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
101 function. If you need this function, you now need
102 to request the 'waitpid' module.
104 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
105 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
106 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
107 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
109 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
110 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
111 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
112 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
114 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
115 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
116 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
117 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
118 may change again in the future once glibc provides
119 this feature as well.
121 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
123 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
124 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
125 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
127 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
128 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
130 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
131 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
133 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
134 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
136 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
137 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
140 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
141 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
143 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
144 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
147 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
148 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
149 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
150 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
152 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
153 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
154 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
155 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
158 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
159 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
160 get the functions that were previously provided.
162 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
163 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
165 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
166 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
167 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
170 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
171 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
172 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
175 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
176 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
177 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
180 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
181 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
182 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
184 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
185 must contain an explicit dependency on
188 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
189 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
190 effect except on very old platforms.
192 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
193 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
195 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
197 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
200 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
203 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
204 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
206 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
207 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
210 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
211 rather than only defined to 1.
213 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
214 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
215 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
216 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
217 include <unistd.h>. For all other
218 functions provided by this module,
219 continue to include "openat.h".
221 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
222 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
225 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
226 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
228 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
229 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
230 "long options" and "options with optional
231 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
233 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
236 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
237 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
238 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
239 The calling convention of the functions
240 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
242 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
243 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
244 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
245 The calling convention of the functions
246 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
248 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
249 The maint.mk file was copied from
250 coreutils, and the old
251 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
252 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
253 this will add several new checks. If some
254 new check is annoying, add the name of the
255 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
258 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
260 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
262 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
264 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
266 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
267 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
268 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
271 val = c_strtod (...);
272 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
275 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
276 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
278 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
279 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
281 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
282 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
283 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
284 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
285 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
286 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
288 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
291 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
294 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
297 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
299 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
301 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
304 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
307 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
310 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
313 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
316 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
319 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
320 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
321 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
322 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
323 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
325 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
326 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
327 socket descriptors are now compatible with
328 file descriptors. In general, this change
329 will simply improve your code's portability
330 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
331 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
332 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
333 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
334 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
335 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
337 This change does not remove the need to call
338 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
339 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
340 when you include the sys_socket module; while
341 the functionality will be restored soon, for
342 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
343 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
345 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
347 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
348 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
349 equivalent function, use function
350 xconcatenated_filename from module
353 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
354 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
355 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
356 You may need to create a symbolic link for
357 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
358 installed in $prefix/lib.
360 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
363 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
364 to "glthread/lock.h".
365 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
368 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
369 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
370 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
372 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
373 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
374 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
375 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
377 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
378 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
379 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
380 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
382 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
383 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
384 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
385 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
386 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
388 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
390 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
393 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
396 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
397 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
399 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
400 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
401 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
402 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
404 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
405 implementations; clients that use controlled
406 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
407 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
408 module instead for smaller code size.
410 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
411 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
412 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
413 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
414 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
416 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
417 implementations; clients that use controlled
418 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
419 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
420 module instead for smaller code size.
422 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
423 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
424 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
425 module if you need it.
427 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
430 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
433 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
434 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
435 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
436 module description for the applicable license.
438 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
439 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
440 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
442 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
443 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
444 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
447 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
448 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
449 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
451 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
453 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
454 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
456 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
457 error to standard error; that is now the
458 caller's responsibility. It returns an
459 error code of type enum strtol_error
460 instead of the integer option value, and stores
461 the option value via a new int * argument.
462 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
463 are now an option name and option argument
464 instead of an option argument and a type string,
465 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
467 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
469 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
470 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
472 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
475 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
476 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
478 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
481 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
482 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
486 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
487 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
492 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
493 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
494 that has a different signature.
496 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
497 #include "sigprocmask.h"
501 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
502 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
503 'long double' as a type exists.
505 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
506 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
507 des Renamed to crypto/des.
508 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
509 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
510 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
511 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
512 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
513 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
514 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
515 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
516 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
517 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
518 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
519 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
520 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
521 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
522 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
523 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
524 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
525 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
526 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
527 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
529 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
530 #include "vasprintf.h"
534 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
537 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
539 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
540 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
541 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
543 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
544 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
545 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
547 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
550 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
551 iconv_string -> str_iconv
552 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
555 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
556 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
557 carray-list You can pass NULL.
565 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
566 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
570 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
573 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
574 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
575 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
576 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
577 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
578 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
579 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
580 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
581 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
582 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
583 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
585 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
586 using the "des" module directly.
588 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
589 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
590 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
592 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
593 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
594 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
599 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
606 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
607 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil