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 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
17 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
18 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
19 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
21 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
22 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
24 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
25 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
27 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
28 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
30 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
31 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
34 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
35 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
37 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
38 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
41 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
42 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
43 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
44 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
46 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
47 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
48 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
49 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
52 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
53 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
54 get the functions that were previously provided.
56 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
57 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
59 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
60 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
61 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
64 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
65 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
66 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
69 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
70 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
71 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
74 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
75 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
76 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
78 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
79 must contain an explicit dependency on
82 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
83 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
84 effect except on very old platforms.
86 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
87 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
89 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
91 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
94 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
97 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
100 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
101 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
104 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
105 rather than only defined to 1.
107 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
108 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
109 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
110 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
111 include <unistd.h>. For all other
112 functions provided by this module,
113 continue to include "openat.h".
115 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
116 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
119 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
120 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
122 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
123 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
124 "long options" and "options with optional
125 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
127 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
130 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
131 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
132 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
133 The calling convention of the functions
134 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
136 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
137 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
138 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
139 The calling convention of the functions
140 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
142 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
143 The maint.mk file was copied from
144 coreutils, and the old
145 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
146 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
147 this will add several new checks. If some
148 new check is annoying, add the name of the
149 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
152 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
154 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
156 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
158 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
160 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
161 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
162 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
165 val = c_strtod (...);
166 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
169 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
170 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
172 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
173 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
175 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
176 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
177 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
178 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
179 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
180 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
182 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
185 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
188 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
191 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
193 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
195 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
198 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
201 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
204 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
207 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
210 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
213 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
214 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
215 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
216 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
217 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
219 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
220 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
221 socket descriptors are now compatible with
222 file descriptors. In general, this change
223 will simply improve your code's portability
224 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
225 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
226 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
227 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
228 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
229 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
231 This change does not remove the need to call
232 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
233 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
234 when you include the sys_socket module; while
235 the functionality will be restored soon, for
236 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
237 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
239 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
241 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
242 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
243 equivalent function, use function
244 xconcatenated_filename from module
247 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
248 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
249 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
250 You may need to create a symbolic link for
251 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
252 installed in $prefix/lib.
254 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
257 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
258 to "glthread/lock.h".
259 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
262 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
263 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
264 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
266 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
267 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
268 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
269 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
271 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
272 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
273 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
274 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
276 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
277 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
278 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
279 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
280 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
282 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
284 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
287 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
290 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
291 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
293 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
294 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
295 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
296 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
298 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
299 implementations; clients that use controlled
300 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
301 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
302 module instead for smaller code size.
304 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
305 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
306 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
307 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
308 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
310 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
311 implementations; clients that use controlled
312 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
313 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
314 module instead for smaller code size.
316 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
317 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
318 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
319 module if you need it.
321 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
324 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
327 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
328 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
329 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
330 module description for the applicable license.
332 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
333 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
334 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
336 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
337 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
338 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
341 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
342 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
343 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
345 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
347 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
348 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
350 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
351 error to standard error; that is now the
352 caller's responsibility. It returns an
353 error code of type enum strtol_error
354 instead of the integer option value, and stores
355 the option value via a new int * argument.
356 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
357 are now an option name and option argument
358 instead of an option argument and a type string,
359 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
361 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
363 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
364 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
366 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
369 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
370 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
372 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
375 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
376 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
380 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
381 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
386 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
387 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
388 that has a different signature.
390 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
391 #include "sigprocmask.h"
395 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
396 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
397 'long double' as a type exists.
399 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
400 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
401 des Renamed to crypto/des.
402 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
403 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
404 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
405 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
406 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
407 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
408 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
409 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
410 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
411 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
412 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
413 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
414 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
415 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
416 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
417 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
418 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
419 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
420 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
421 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
423 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
424 #include "vasprintf.h"
428 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
431 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
433 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
434 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
435 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
437 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
438 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
439 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
441 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
444 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
445 iconv_string -> str_iconv
446 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
449 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
450 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
451 carray-list You can pass NULL.
459 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
460 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
464 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
467 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
468 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
469 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
470 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
471 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
472 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
473 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
474 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
475 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
476 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
477 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
479 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
480 using the "des" module directly.
482 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
483 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
484 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
486 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
487 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
488 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
493 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
500 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
501 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil