4 User visible incompatible changes
5 ---------------------------------
9 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
10 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
12 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
13 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
14 "long options" and "options with optional
15 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
17 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
20 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
21 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
22 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
23 The calling convention of the functions
24 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
26 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
27 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
28 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
29 The calling convention of the functions
30 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
32 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
33 The maint.mk file was copied from
34 coreutils, and the old
35 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
36 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
37 this will add several new checks. If some
38 new check is annoying, add the name of the
39 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
42 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
44 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
46 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
48 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
50 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
51 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
52 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
56 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
59 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
60 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
62 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
63 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
65 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
66 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
67 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
68 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
69 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
70 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
72 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
75 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
78 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
81 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
83 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
85 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
88 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
91 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
94 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
97 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
100 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
103 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
104 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
105 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
106 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
107 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
109 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
110 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
111 socket descriptors are now compatible with
112 file descriptors. In general, this change
113 will simply improve your code's portability
114 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
115 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
116 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
117 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
118 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
119 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
121 This change does not remove the need to call
122 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
123 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
124 when you include the sys_socket module; while
125 the functionality will be restored soon, for
126 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
127 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
129 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
131 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
132 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
133 equivalent function, use function
134 xconcatenated_filename from module
137 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
138 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
139 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
140 You may need to create a symbolic link for
141 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
142 installed in $prefix/lib.
144 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
147 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
148 to "glthread/lock.h".
149 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
152 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
153 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
154 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
156 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
157 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
158 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
159 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
161 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
162 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
163 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
164 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
166 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
167 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
168 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
169 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
170 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
172 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
174 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
177 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
180 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
181 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
183 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
184 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
185 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
186 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
188 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
189 implementations; clients that use controlled
190 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
191 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
192 module instead for smaller code size.
194 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
195 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
196 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
197 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
198 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
200 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
201 implementations; clients that use controlled
202 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
203 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
204 module instead for smaller code size.
206 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
207 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
208 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
209 module if you need it.
211 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
214 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
217 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
218 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
219 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
220 module description for the applicable license.
222 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
223 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
224 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
226 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
227 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
228 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
231 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
232 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
233 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
235 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
237 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
238 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
240 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
241 error to standard error; that is now the
242 caller's responsibility. It returns an
243 error code of type enum strtol_error
244 instead of the integer option value, and stores
245 the option value via a new int * argument.
246 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
247 are now an option name and option argument
248 instead of an option argument and a type string,
249 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
251 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
253 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
254 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
256 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
259 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
260 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
262 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
265 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
266 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
270 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
271 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
276 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
277 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
278 that has a different signature.
280 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
281 #include "sigprocmask.h"
285 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
286 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
287 'long double' as a type exists.
289 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
290 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
291 des Renamed to crypto/des.
292 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
293 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
294 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
295 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
296 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
297 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
298 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
299 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
300 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
301 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
302 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
303 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
304 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
305 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
306 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
307 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
308 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
309 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
310 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
311 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
313 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
314 #include "vasprintf.h"
318 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
321 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
323 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
324 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
325 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
327 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
328 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
329 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
331 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
334 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
335 iconv_string -> str_iconv
336 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
339 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
340 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
341 carray-list You can pass NULL.
349 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
350 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
354 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
357 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
358 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
359 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
360 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
361 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
362 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
363 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
364 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
365 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
366 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
367 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
369 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
370 using the "des" module directly.
372 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
373 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
374 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
376 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
377 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
378 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
383 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
390 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
391 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil