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 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
16 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
17 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
18 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
19 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
20 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
21 rmdir header dosname.h.
26 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
27 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
28 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
29 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
30 (which should have been internal to the module
31 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
32 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
33 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
34 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
37 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
38 module no longer guarantees that the following are
39 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
40 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
42 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
43 function. If you need this function, you now need
44 to request the 'iswblank' module.
46 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
48 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
49 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
51 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
52 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
54 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
55 parse-datetime module for the replacement
56 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
57 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
58 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
59 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
61 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
62 function. If you need this function, you now need
63 to request the 'waitpid' module.
65 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
66 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
67 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
68 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
70 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
71 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
72 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
73 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
75 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
76 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
77 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
78 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
79 may change again in the future once glibc provides
82 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
84 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
85 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
86 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
88 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
89 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
91 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
92 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
94 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
95 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
97 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
98 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
101 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
102 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
104 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
105 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
108 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
109 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
110 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
111 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
113 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
114 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
115 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
116 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
119 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
120 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
121 get the functions that were previously provided.
123 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
124 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
126 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
127 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
128 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
131 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
132 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
133 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
136 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
137 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
138 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
141 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
142 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
143 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
145 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
146 must contain an explicit dependency on
149 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
150 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
151 effect except on very old platforms.
153 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
154 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
156 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
158 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
161 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
164 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
165 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
167 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
168 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
171 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
172 rather than only defined to 1.
174 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
175 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
176 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
177 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
178 include <unistd.h>. For all other
179 functions provided by this module,
180 continue to include "openat.h".
182 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
183 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
186 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
187 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
189 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
190 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
191 "long options" and "options with optional
192 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
194 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
197 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
198 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
199 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
200 The calling convention of the functions
201 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
203 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
204 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
205 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
206 The calling convention of the functions
207 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
209 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
210 The maint.mk file was copied from
211 coreutils, and the old
212 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
213 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
214 this will add several new checks. If some
215 new check is annoying, add the name of the
216 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
219 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
221 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
223 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
225 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
227 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
228 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
229 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
232 val = c_strtod (...);
233 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
236 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
237 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
239 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
240 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
242 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
243 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
244 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
245 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
246 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
247 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
249 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
252 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
255 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
258 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
260 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
262 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
265 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
268 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
271 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
274 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
277 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
280 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
281 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
282 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
283 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
284 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
286 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
287 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
288 socket descriptors are now compatible with
289 file descriptors. In general, this change
290 will simply improve your code's portability
291 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
292 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
293 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
294 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
295 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
296 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
298 This change does not remove the need to call
299 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
300 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
301 when you include the sys_socket module; while
302 the functionality will be restored soon, for
303 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
304 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
306 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
308 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
309 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
310 equivalent function, use function
311 xconcatenated_filename from module
314 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
315 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
316 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
317 You may need to create a symbolic link for
318 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
319 installed in $prefix/lib.
321 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
324 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
325 to "glthread/lock.h".
326 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
329 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
330 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
331 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
333 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
334 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
335 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
336 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
338 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
339 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
340 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
341 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
343 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
344 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
345 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
346 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
347 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
349 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
351 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
354 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
357 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
358 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
360 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
361 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
362 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
363 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
365 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
366 implementations; clients that use controlled
367 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
368 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
369 module instead for smaller code size.
371 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
372 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
373 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
374 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
375 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
377 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
378 implementations; clients that use controlled
379 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
380 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
381 module instead for smaller code size.
383 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
384 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
385 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
386 module if you need it.
388 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
391 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
394 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
395 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
396 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
397 module description for the applicable license.
399 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
400 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
401 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
403 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
404 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
405 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
408 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
409 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
410 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
412 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
414 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
415 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
417 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
418 error to standard error; that is now the
419 caller's responsibility. It returns an
420 error code of type enum strtol_error
421 instead of the integer option value, and stores
422 the option value via a new int * argument.
423 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
424 are now an option name and option argument
425 instead of an option argument and a type string,
426 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
428 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
430 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
431 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
433 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
436 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
437 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
439 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
442 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
443 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
447 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
448 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
453 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
454 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
455 that has a different signature.
457 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
458 #include "sigprocmask.h"
462 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
463 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
464 'long double' as a type exists.
466 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
467 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
468 des Renamed to crypto/des.
469 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
470 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
471 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
472 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
473 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
474 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
475 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
476 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
477 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
478 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
479 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
480 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
481 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
482 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
483 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
484 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
485 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
486 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
487 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
488 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
490 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
491 #include "vasprintf.h"
495 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
498 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
500 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
501 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
502 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
504 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
505 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
506 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
508 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
511 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
512 iconv_string -> str_iconv
513 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
516 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
517 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
518 carray-list You can pass NULL.
526 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
527 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
531 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
534 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
535 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
536 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
537 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
538 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
539 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
540 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
541 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
542 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
543 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
544 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
546 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
547 using the "des" module directly.
549 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
550 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
551 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
553 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
554 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
555 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
560 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
567 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
568 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil