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 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
16 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
17 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
19 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
20 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
21 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
22 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
23 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
24 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
25 rmdir header dosname.h.
30 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
31 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
32 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
33 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
34 (which should have been internal to the module
35 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
36 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
37 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
38 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
41 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
42 module no longer guarantees that the following are
43 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
44 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
46 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
47 function. If you need this function, you now need
48 to request the 'iswblank' module.
50 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
52 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
53 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
55 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
56 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
58 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
59 parse-datetime module for the replacement
60 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
61 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
62 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
63 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
65 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
66 function. If you need this function, you now need
67 to request the 'waitpid' module.
69 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
70 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
71 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
72 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
74 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
75 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
76 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
77 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
79 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
80 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
81 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
82 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
83 may change again in the future once glibc provides
86 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
88 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
89 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
90 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
92 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
93 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
95 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
96 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
98 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
99 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
101 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
102 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
105 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
106 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
108 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
109 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
112 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
113 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
114 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
115 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
117 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
118 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
119 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
120 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
123 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
124 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
125 get the functions that were previously provided.
127 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
128 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
130 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
131 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
132 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
135 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
136 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
137 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
140 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
141 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
142 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
145 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
146 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
147 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
149 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
150 must contain an explicit dependency on
153 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
154 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
155 effect except on very old platforms.
157 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
158 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
160 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
162 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
165 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
168 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
169 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
171 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
172 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
175 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
176 rather than only defined to 1.
178 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
179 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
180 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
181 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
182 include <unistd.h>. For all other
183 functions provided by this module,
184 continue to include "openat.h".
186 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
187 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
190 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
191 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
193 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
194 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
195 "long options" and "options with optional
196 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
198 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
201 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
202 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
203 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
204 The calling convention of the functions
205 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
207 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
208 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
209 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
210 The calling convention of the functions
211 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
213 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
214 The maint.mk file was copied from
215 coreutils, and the old
216 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
217 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
218 this will add several new checks. If some
219 new check is annoying, add the name of the
220 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
223 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
225 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
227 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
229 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
231 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
232 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
233 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
236 val = c_strtod (...);
237 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
240 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
241 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
243 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
244 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
246 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
247 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
248 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
249 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
250 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
251 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
253 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
256 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
259 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
262 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
264 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
266 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
269 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
272 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
275 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
278 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
281 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
284 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
285 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
286 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
287 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
288 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
290 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
291 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
292 socket descriptors are now compatible with
293 file descriptors. In general, this change
294 will simply improve your code's portability
295 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
296 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
297 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
298 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
299 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
300 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
302 This change does not remove the need to call
303 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
304 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
305 when you include the sys_socket module; while
306 the functionality will be restored soon, for
307 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
308 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
310 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
312 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
313 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
314 equivalent function, use function
315 xconcatenated_filename from module
318 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
319 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
320 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
321 You may need to create a symbolic link for
322 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
323 installed in $prefix/lib.
325 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
328 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
329 to "glthread/lock.h".
330 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
333 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
334 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
335 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
337 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
338 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
339 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
340 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
342 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
343 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
344 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
345 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
347 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
348 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
349 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
350 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
351 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
353 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
355 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
358 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
361 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
362 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
364 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
365 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
366 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
367 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
369 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
370 implementations; clients that use controlled
371 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
372 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
373 module instead for smaller code size.
375 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
376 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
377 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
378 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
379 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
381 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
382 implementations; clients that use controlled
383 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
384 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
385 module instead for smaller code size.
387 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
388 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
389 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
390 module if you need it.
392 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
395 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
398 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
399 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
400 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
401 module description for the applicable license.
403 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
404 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
405 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
407 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
408 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
409 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
412 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
413 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
414 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
416 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
418 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
419 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
421 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
422 error to standard error; that is now the
423 caller's responsibility. It returns an
424 error code of type enum strtol_error
425 instead of the integer option value, and stores
426 the option value via a new int * argument.
427 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
428 are now an option name and option argument
429 instead of an option argument and a type string,
430 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
432 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
434 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
435 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
437 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
440 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
441 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
443 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
446 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
447 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
451 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
452 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
457 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
458 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
459 that has a different signature.
461 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
462 #include "sigprocmask.h"
466 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
467 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
468 'long double' as a type exists.
470 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
471 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
472 des Renamed to crypto/des.
473 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
474 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
475 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
476 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
477 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
478 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
479 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
480 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
481 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
482 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
483 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
484 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
485 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
486 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
487 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
488 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
489 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
490 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
491 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
492 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
494 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
495 #include "vasprintf.h"
499 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
502 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
504 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
505 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
506 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
508 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
509 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
510 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
512 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
515 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
516 iconv_string -> str_iconv
517 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
520 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
521 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
522 carray-list You can pass NULL.
530 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
531 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
535 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
538 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
539 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
540 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
541 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
542 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
543 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
544 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
545 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
546 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
547 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
548 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
550 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
551 using the "des" module directly.
553 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
554 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
555 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
557 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
558 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
559 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
564 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
571 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
572 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil