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 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
16 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
18 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
19 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
21 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
22 default; to retain robust handling of directories
23 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
24 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
26 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
29 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
30 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
31 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
33 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
34 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
35 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
36 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
37 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
38 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
39 rmdir header dosname.h.
44 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
45 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
46 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
47 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
48 (which should have been internal to the module
49 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
50 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
51 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
52 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
55 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
56 module no longer guarantees that the following are
57 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
58 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
60 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
61 function. If you need this function, you now need
62 to request the 'iswblank' module.
64 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
66 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
67 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
69 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
70 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
72 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
73 parse-datetime module for the replacement
74 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
75 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
76 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
77 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
79 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
80 function. If you need this function, you now need
81 to request the 'waitpid' module.
83 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
84 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
85 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
86 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
88 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
89 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
90 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
91 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
93 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
94 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
95 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
96 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
97 may change again in the future once glibc provides
100 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
102 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
103 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
104 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
106 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
107 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
109 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
110 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
112 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
113 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
115 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
116 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
119 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
120 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
122 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
123 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
126 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
127 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
128 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
129 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
131 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
132 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
133 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
134 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
137 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
138 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
139 get the functions that were previously provided.
141 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
142 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
144 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
145 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
146 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
149 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
150 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
151 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
154 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
155 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
156 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
159 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
160 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
161 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
163 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
164 must contain an explicit dependency on
167 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
168 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
169 effect except on very old platforms.
171 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
172 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
174 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
176 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
179 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
182 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
183 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
185 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
186 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
189 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
190 rather than only defined to 1.
192 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
193 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
194 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
195 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
196 include <unistd.h>. For all other
197 functions provided by this module,
198 continue to include "openat.h".
200 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
201 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
204 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
205 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
207 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
208 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
209 "long options" and "options with optional
210 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
212 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
215 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
216 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
217 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
218 The calling convention of the functions
219 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
221 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
222 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
223 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
224 The calling convention of the functions
225 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
227 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
228 The maint.mk file was copied from
229 coreutils, and the old
230 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
231 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
232 this will add several new checks. If some
233 new check is annoying, add the name of the
234 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
237 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
239 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
241 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
243 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
245 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
246 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
247 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
250 val = c_strtod (...);
251 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
254 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
255 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
257 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
258 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
260 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
261 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
262 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
263 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
264 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
265 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
267 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
270 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
273 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
276 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
278 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
280 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
283 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
286 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
289 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
292 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
295 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
298 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
299 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
300 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
301 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
302 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
304 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
305 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
306 socket descriptors are now compatible with
307 file descriptors. In general, this change
308 will simply improve your code's portability
309 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
310 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
311 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
312 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
313 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
314 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
316 This change does not remove the need to call
317 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
318 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
319 when you include the sys_socket module; while
320 the functionality will be restored soon, for
321 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
322 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
324 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
326 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
327 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
328 equivalent function, use function
329 xconcatenated_filename from module
332 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
333 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
334 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
335 You may need to create a symbolic link for
336 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
337 installed in $prefix/lib.
339 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
342 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
343 to "glthread/lock.h".
344 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
347 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
348 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
349 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
351 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
352 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
353 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
354 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
356 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
357 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
358 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
359 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
361 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
362 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
363 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
364 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
365 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
367 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
369 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
372 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
375 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
376 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
378 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
379 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
380 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
381 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
383 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
384 implementations; clients that use controlled
385 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
386 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
387 module instead for smaller code size.
389 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
390 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
391 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
392 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
393 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
395 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
396 implementations; clients that use controlled
397 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
398 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
399 module instead for smaller code size.
401 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
402 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
403 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
404 module if you need it.
406 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
409 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
412 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
413 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
414 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
415 module description for the applicable license.
417 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
418 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
419 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
421 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
422 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
423 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
426 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
427 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
428 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
430 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
432 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
433 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
435 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
436 error to standard error; that is now the
437 caller's responsibility. It returns an
438 error code of type enum strtol_error
439 instead of the integer option value, and stores
440 the option value via a new int * argument.
441 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
442 are now an option name and option argument
443 instead of an option argument and a type string,
444 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
446 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
448 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
449 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
451 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
454 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
455 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
457 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
460 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
461 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
465 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
466 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
471 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
472 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
473 that has a different signature.
475 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
476 #include "sigprocmask.h"
480 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
481 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
482 'long double' as a type exists.
484 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
485 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
486 des Renamed to crypto/des.
487 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
488 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
489 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
490 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
491 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
492 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
493 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
494 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
495 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
496 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
497 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
498 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
499 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
500 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
501 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
502 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
503 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
504 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
505 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
506 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
508 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
509 #include "vasprintf.h"
513 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
516 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
518 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
519 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
520 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
522 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
523 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
524 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
526 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
529 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
530 iconv_string -> str_iconv
531 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
534 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
535 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
536 carray-list You can pass NULL.
544 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
545 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
549 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
552 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
553 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
554 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
555 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
556 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
557 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
558 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
559 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
560 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
561 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
562 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
564 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
565 using the "des" module directly.
567 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
568 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
569 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
571 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
572 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
573 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
578 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
585 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
586 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil