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 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
16 default; to retain robust handling of directories
17 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
18 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
20 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
23 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
24 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
25 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
27 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
28 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
29 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
30 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
31 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
32 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
33 rmdir header dosname.h.
38 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
39 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
40 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
41 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
42 (which should have been internal to the module
43 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
44 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
45 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
46 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
49 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
50 module no longer guarantees that the following are
51 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
52 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
54 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
55 function. If you need this function, you now need
56 to request the 'iswblank' module.
58 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
60 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
61 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
63 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
64 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
66 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
67 parse-datetime module for the replacement
68 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
69 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
70 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
71 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
73 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
74 function. If you need this function, you now need
75 to request the 'waitpid' module.
77 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
78 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
79 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
80 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
82 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
83 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
84 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
85 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
87 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
88 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
89 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
90 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
91 may change again in the future once glibc provides
94 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
96 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
97 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
98 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
100 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
101 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
103 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
104 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
106 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
107 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
109 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
110 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
113 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
114 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
116 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
117 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
120 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
121 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
122 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
123 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
125 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
126 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
127 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
128 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
131 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
132 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
133 get the functions that were previously provided.
135 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
136 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
138 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
139 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
140 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
143 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
144 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
145 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
148 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
149 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
150 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
153 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
154 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
155 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
157 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
158 must contain an explicit dependency on
161 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
162 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
163 effect except on very old platforms.
165 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
166 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
168 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
170 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
173 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
176 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
177 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
179 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
180 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
183 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
184 rather than only defined to 1.
186 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
187 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
188 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
189 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
190 include <unistd.h>. For all other
191 functions provided by this module,
192 continue to include "openat.h".
194 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
195 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
198 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
199 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
201 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
202 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
203 "long options" and "options with optional
204 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
206 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
209 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
210 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
211 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
212 The calling convention of the functions
213 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
215 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
216 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
217 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
218 The calling convention of the functions
219 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
221 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
222 The maint.mk file was copied from
223 coreutils, and the old
224 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
225 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
226 this will add several new checks. If some
227 new check is annoying, add the name of the
228 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
231 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
233 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
235 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
237 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
239 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
240 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
241 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
244 val = c_strtod (...);
245 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
248 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
249 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
251 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
252 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
254 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
255 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
256 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
257 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
258 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
259 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
261 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
264 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
267 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
270 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
272 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
274 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
277 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
280 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
283 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
286 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
289 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
292 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
293 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
294 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
295 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
296 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
298 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
299 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
300 socket descriptors are now compatible with
301 file descriptors. In general, this change
302 will simply improve your code's portability
303 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
304 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
305 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
306 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
307 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
308 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
310 This change does not remove the need to call
311 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
312 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
313 when you include the sys_socket module; while
314 the functionality will be restored soon, for
315 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
316 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
318 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
320 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
321 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
322 equivalent function, use function
323 xconcatenated_filename from module
326 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
327 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
328 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
329 You may need to create a symbolic link for
330 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
331 installed in $prefix/lib.
333 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
336 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
337 to "glthread/lock.h".
338 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
341 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
342 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
343 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
345 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
346 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
347 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
348 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
350 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
351 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
352 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
353 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
355 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
356 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
357 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
358 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
359 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
361 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
363 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
366 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
369 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
370 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
372 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
373 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
374 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
375 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
377 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
378 implementations; clients that use controlled
379 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
380 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
381 module instead for smaller code size.
383 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
384 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
385 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
386 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
387 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
389 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
390 implementations; clients that use controlled
391 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
392 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
393 module instead for smaller code size.
395 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
396 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
397 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
398 module if you need it.
400 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
403 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
406 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
407 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
408 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
409 module description for the applicable license.
411 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
412 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
413 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
415 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
416 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
417 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
420 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
421 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
422 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
424 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
426 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
427 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
429 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
430 error to standard error; that is now the
431 caller's responsibility. It returns an
432 error code of type enum strtol_error
433 instead of the integer option value, and stores
434 the option value via a new int * argument.
435 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
436 are now an option name and option argument
437 instead of an option argument and a type string,
438 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
440 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
442 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
443 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
445 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
448 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
449 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
451 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
454 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
455 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
459 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
460 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
465 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
466 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
467 that has a different signature.
469 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
470 #include "sigprocmask.h"
474 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
475 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
476 'long double' as a type exists.
478 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
479 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
480 des Renamed to crypto/des.
481 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
482 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
483 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
484 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
485 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
486 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
487 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
488 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
489 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
490 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
491 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
492 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
493 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
494 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
495 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
496 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
497 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
498 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
499 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
500 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
502 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
503 #include "vasprintf.h"
507 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
510 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
512 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
513 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
514 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
516 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
517 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
518 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
520 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
523 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
524 iconv_string -> str_iconv
525 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
528 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
529 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
530 carray-list You can pass NULL.
538 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
539 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
543 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
546 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
547 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
548 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
549 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
550 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
551 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
552 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
553 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
554 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
555 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
556 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
558 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
559 using the "des" module directly.
561 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
562 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
563 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
565 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
566 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
567 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
572 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
579 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
580 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil