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 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
16 is now set to "no", not to ":".
18 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
21 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
22 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
24 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
25 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
27 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
28 default; to retain robust handling of directories
29 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
30 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
32 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
35 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
36 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
37 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
39 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
40 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
41 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
42 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
43 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
44 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
45 rmdir header dosname.h.
50 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
51 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
52 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
53 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
54 (which should have been internal to the module
55 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
56 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
57 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
58 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
61 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
62 module no longer guarantees that the following are
63 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
64 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
66 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
67 function. If you need this function, you now need
68 to request the 'iswblank' module.
70 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
72 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
73 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
75 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
76 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
78 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
79 parse-datetime module for the replacement
80 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
81 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
82 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
83 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
85 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
86 function. If you need this function, you now need
87 to request the 'waitpid' module.
89 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
90 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
91 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
92 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
94 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
95 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
96 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
97 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
99 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
100 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
101 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
102 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
103 may change again in the future once glibc provides
104 this feature as well.
106 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
108 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
109 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
110 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
112 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
113 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
115 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
116 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
118 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
119 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
121 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
122 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
125 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
126 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
128 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
129 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
132 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
133 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
134 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
135 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
137 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
138 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
139 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
140 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
143 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
144 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
145 get the functions that were previously provided.
147 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
148 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
150 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
151 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
152 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
155 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
156 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
157 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
160 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
161 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
162 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
165 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
166 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
167 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
169 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
170 must contain an explicit dependency on
173 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
174 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
175 effect except on very old platforms.
177 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
178 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
180 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
182 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
185 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
188 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
189 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
191 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
192 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
195 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
196 rather than only defined to 1.
198 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
199 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
200 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
201 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
202 include <unistd.h>. For all other
203 functions provided by this module,
204 continue to include "openat.h".
206 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
207 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
210 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
211 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
213 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
214 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
215 "long options" and "options with optional
216 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
218 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
221 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
222 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
223 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
224 The calling convention of the functions
225 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
227 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
228 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
229 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
230 The calling convention of the functions
231 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
233 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
234 The maint.mk file was copied from
235 coreutils, and the old
236 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
237 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
238 this will add several new checks. If some
239 new check is annoying, add the name of the
240 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
243 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
245 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
247 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
249 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
251 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
252 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
253 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
256 val = c_strtod (...);
257 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
260 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
261 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
263 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
264 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
266 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
267 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
268 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
269 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
270 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
271 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
273 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
276 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
279 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
282 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
284 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
286 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
289 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
292 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
295 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
298 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
301 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
304 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
305 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
306 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
307 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
308 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
310 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
311 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
312 socket descriptors are now compatible with
313 file descriptors. In general, this change
314 will simply improve your code's portability
315 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
316 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
317 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
318 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
319 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
320 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
322 This change does not remove the need to call
323 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
324 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
325 when you include the sys_socket module; while
326 the functionality will be restored soon, for
327 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
328 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
330 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
332 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
333 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
334 equivalent function, use function
335 xconcatenated_filename from module
338 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
339 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
340 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
341 You may need to create a symbolic link for
342 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
343 installed in $prefix/lib.
345 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
348 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
349 to "glthread/lock.h".
350 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
353 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
354 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
355 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
357 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
358 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
359 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
360 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
362 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
363 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
364 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
365 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
367 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
368 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
369 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
370 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
371 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
373 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
375 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
378 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
381 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
382 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
384 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
385 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
386 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
387 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
389 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
390 implementations; clients that use controlled
391 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
392 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
393 module instead for smaller code size.
395 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
396 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
397 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
398 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
399 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
401 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
402 implementations; clients that use controlled
403 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
404 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
405 module instead for smaller code size.
407 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
408 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
409 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
410 module if you need it.
412 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
415 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
418 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
419 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
420 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
421 module description for the applicable license.
423 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
424 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
425 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
427 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
428 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
429 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
432 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
433 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
434 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
436 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
438 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
439 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
441 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
442 error to standard error; that is now the
443 caller's responsibility. It returns an
444 error code of type enum strtol_error
445 instead of the integer option value, and stores
446 the option value via a new int * argument.
447 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
448 are now an option name and option argument
449 instead of an option argument and a type string,
450 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
452 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
454 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
455 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
457 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
460 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
461 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
463 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
466 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
467 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
471 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
472 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
477 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
478 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
479 that has a different signature.
481 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
482 #include "sigprocmask.h"
486 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
487 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
488 'long double' as a type exists.
490 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
491 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
492 des Renamed to crypto/des.
493 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
494 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
495 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
496 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
497 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
498 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
499 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
500 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
501 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
502 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
503 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
504 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
505 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
506 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
507 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
508 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
509 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
510 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
511 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
512 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
514 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
515 #include "vasprintf.h"
519 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
522 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
524 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
525 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
526 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
528 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
529 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
530 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
532 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
535 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
536 iconv_string -> str_iconv
537 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
540 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
541 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
542 carray-list You can pass NULL.
550 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
551 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
555 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
558 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
559 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
560 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
561 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
562 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
563 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
564 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
565 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
566 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
567 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
568 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
570 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
571 using the "des" module directly.
573 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
574 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
575 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
577 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
578 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
579 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
584 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
591 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
592 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil