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 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
18 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
19 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
20 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
22 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
23 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
24 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
25 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
26 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
27 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
28 rmdir header dosname.h.
33 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
34 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
35 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
36 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
37 (which should have been internal to the module
38 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
39 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
40 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
41 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
44 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
45 module no longer guarantees that the following are
46 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
47 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
49 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
50 function. If you need this function, you now need
51 to request the 'iswblank' module.
53 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
55 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
56 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
58 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
59 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
61 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
62 parse-datetime module for the replacement
63 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
64 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
65 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
66 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
68 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
69 function. If you need this function, you now need
70 to request the 'waitpid' module.
72 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
73 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
74 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
75 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
77 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
78 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
79 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
80 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
82 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
83 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
84 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
85 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
86 may change again in the future once glibc provides
89 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
91 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
92 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
93 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
95 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
96 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
98 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
99 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
101 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
102 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
104 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
105 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
108 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
109 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
111 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
112 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
115 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
116 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
117 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
118 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
120 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
121 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
122 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
123 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
126 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
127 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
128 get the functions that were previously provided.
130 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
131 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
133 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
134 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
135 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
138 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
139 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
140 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
143 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
144 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
145 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
148 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
149 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
150 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
152 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
153 must contain an explicit dependency on
156 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
157 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
158 effect except on very old platforms.
160 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
161 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
163 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
165 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
168 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
171 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
172 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
174 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
175 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
178 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
179 rather than only defined to 1.
181 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
182 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
183 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
184 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
185 include <unistd.h>. For all other
186 functions provided by this module,
187 continue to include "openat.h".
189 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
190 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
193 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
194 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
196 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
197 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
198 "long options" and "options with optional
199 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
201 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
204 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
205 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
206 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
207 The calling convention of the functions
208 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
210 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
211 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
212 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
213 The calling convention of the functions
214 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
216 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
217 The maint.mk file was copied from
218 coreutils, and the old
219 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
220 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
221 this will add several new checks. If some
222 new check is annoying, add the name of the
223 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
226 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
228 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
230 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
232 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
234 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
235 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
236 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
239 val = c_strtod (...);
240 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
243 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
244 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
246 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
247 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
249 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
250 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
251 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
252 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
253 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
254 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
256 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
259 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
262 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
265 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
267 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
269 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
272 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
275 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
278 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
281 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
284 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
287 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
288 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
289 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
290 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
291 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
293 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
294 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
295 socket descriptors are now compatible with
296 file descriptors. In general, this change
297 will simply improve your code's portability
298 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
299 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
300 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
301 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
302 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
303 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
305 This change does not remove the need to call
306 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
307 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
308 when you include the sys_socket module; while
309 the functionality will be restored soon, for
310 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
311 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
313 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
315 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
316 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
317 equivalent function, use function
318 xconcatenated_filename from module
321 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
322 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
323 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
324 You may need to create a symbolic link for
325 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
326 installed in $prefix/lib.
328 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
331 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
332 to "glthread/lock.h".
333 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
336 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
337 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
338 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
340 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
341 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
342 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
343 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
345 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
346 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
347 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
348 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
350 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
351 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
352 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
353 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
354 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
356 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
358 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
361 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
364 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
365 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
367 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
368 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
369 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
370 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
372 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
373 implementations; clients that use controlled
374 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
375 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
376 module instead for smaller code size.
378 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
379 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
380 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
381 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
382 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
384 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
385 implementations; clients that use controlled
386 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
387 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
388 module instead for smaller code size.
390 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
391 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
392 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
393 module if you need it.
395 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
398 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
401 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
402 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
403 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
404 module description for the applicable license.
406 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
407 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
408 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
410 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
411 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
412 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
415 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
416 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
417 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
419 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
421 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
422 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
424 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
425 error to standard error; that is now the
426 caller's responsibility. It returns an
427 error code of type enum strtol_error
428 instead of the integer option value, and stores
429 the option value via a new int * argument.
430 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
431 are now an option name and option argument
432 instead of an option argument and a type string,
433 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
435 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
437 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
438 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
440 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
443 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
444 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
446 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
449 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
450 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
454 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
455 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
460 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
461 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
462 that has a different signature.
464 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
465 #include "sigprocmask.h"
469 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
470 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
471 'long double' as a type exists.
473 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
474 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
475 des Renamed to crypto/des.
476 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
477 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
478 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
479 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
480 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
481 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
482 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
483 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
484 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
485 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
486 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
487 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
488 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
489 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
490 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
491 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
492 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
493 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
494 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
495 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
497 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
498 #include "vasprintf.h"
502 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
505 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
507 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
508 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
509 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
511 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
512 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
513 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
515 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
518 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
519 iconv_string -> str_iconv
520 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
523 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
524 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
525 carray-list You can pass NULL.
533 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
534 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
538 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
541 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
542 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
543 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
544 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
545 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
546 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
547 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
548 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
549 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
550 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
551 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
553 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
554 using the "des" module directly.
556 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
557 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
558 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
560 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
561 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
562 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
567 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
574 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
575 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil