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 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
16 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
18 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
19 default; to retain robust handling of directories
20 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
21 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
23 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
26 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
27 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
28 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
30 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
31 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
32 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
33 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
34 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
35 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
36 rmdir header dosname.h.
41 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
42 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
43 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
44 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
45 (which should have been internal to the module
46 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
47 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
48 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
49 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
52 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
53 module no longer guarantees that the following are
54 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
55 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
57 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
58 function. If you need this function, you now need
59 to request the 'iswblank' module.
61 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
63 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
64 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
66 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
67 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
69 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
70 parse-datetime module for the replacement
71 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
72 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
73 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
74 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
76 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
77 function. If you need this function, you now need
78 to request the 'waitpid' module.
80 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
81 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
82 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
83 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
85 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
86 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
87 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
88 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
90 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
91 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
92 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
93 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
94 may change again in the future once glibc provides
97 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
99 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
100 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
101 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
103 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
104 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
106 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
107 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
109 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
110 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
112 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
113 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
116 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
117 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
119 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
120 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
123 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
124 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
125 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
126 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
128 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
129 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
130 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
131 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
134 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
135 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
136 get the functions that were previously provided.
138 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
139 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
141 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
142 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
143 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
146 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
147 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
148 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
151 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
152 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
153 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
156 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
157 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
158 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
160 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
161 must contain an explicit dependency on
164 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
165 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
166 effect except on very old platforms.
168 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
169 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
171 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
173 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
176 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
179 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
180 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
182 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
183 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
186 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
187 rather than only defined to 1.
189 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
190 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
191 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
192 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
193 include <unistd.h>. For all other
194 functions provided by this module,
195 continue to include "openat.h".
197 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
198 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
201 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
202 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
204 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
205 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
206 "long options" and "options with optional
207 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
209 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
212 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
213 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
214 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
215 The calling convention of the functions
216 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
218 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
219 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
220 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
221 The calling convention of the functions
222 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
224 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
225 The maint.mk file was copied from
226 coreutils, and the old
227 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
228 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
229 this will add several new checks. If some
230 new check is annoying, add the name of the
231 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
234 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
236 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
238 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
240 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
242 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
243 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
244 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
247 val = c_strtod (...);
248 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
251 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
252 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
254 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
255 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
257 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
258 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
259 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
260 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
261 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
262 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
264 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
267 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
270 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
273 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
275 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
277 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
280 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
283 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
286 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
289 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
292 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
295 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
296 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
297 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
298 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
299 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
301 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
302 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
303 socket descriptors are now compatible with
304 file descriptors. In general, this change
305 will simply improve your code's portability
306 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
307 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
308 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
309 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
310 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
311 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
313 This change does not remove the need to call
314 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
315 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
316 when you include the sys_socket module; while
317 the functionality will be restored soon, for
318 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
319 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
321 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
323 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
324 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
325 equivalent function, use function
326 xconcatenated_filename from module
329 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
330 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
331 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
332 You may need to create a symbolic link for
333 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
334 installed in $prefix/lib.
336 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
339 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
340 to "glthread/lock.h".
341 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
344 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
345 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
346 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
348 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
349 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
350 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
351 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
353 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
354 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
355 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
356 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
358 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
359 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
360 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
361 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
362 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
364 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
366 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
369 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
372 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
373 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
375 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
376 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
377 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
378 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
380 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
381 implementations; clients that use controlled
382 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
383 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
384 module instead for smaller code size.
386 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
387 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
388 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
389 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
390 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
392 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
393 implementations; clients that use controlled
394 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
395 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
396 module instead for smaller code size.
398 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
399 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
400 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
401 module if you need it.
403 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
406 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
409 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
410 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
411 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
412 module description for the applicable license.
414 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
415 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
416 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
418 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
419 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
420 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
423 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
424 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
425 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
427 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
429 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
430 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
432 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
433 error to standard error; that is now the
434 caller's responsibility. It returns an
435 error code of type enum strtol_error
436 instead of the integer option value, and stores
437 the option value via a new int * argument.
438 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
439 are now an option name and option argument
440 instead of an option argument and a type string,
441 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
443 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
445 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
446 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
448 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
451 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
452 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
454 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
457 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
458 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
462 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
463 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
468 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
469 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
470 that has a different signature.
472 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
473 #include "sigprocmask.h"
477 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
478 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
479 'long double' as a type exists.
481 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
482 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
483 des Renamed to crypto/des.
484 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
485 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
486 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
487 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
488 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
489 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
490 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
491 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
492 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
493 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
494 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
495 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
496 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
497 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
498 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
499 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
500 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
501 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
502 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
503 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
505 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
506 #include "vasprintf.h"
510 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
513 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
515 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
516 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
517 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
519 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
520 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
521 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
523 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
526 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
527 iconv_string -> str_iconv
528 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
531 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
532 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
533 carray-list You can pass NULL.
541 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
542 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
546 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
549 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
550 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
551 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
552 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
553 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
554 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
555 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
556 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
557 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
558 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
559 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
561 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
562 using the "des" module directly.
564 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
565 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
566 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
568 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
569 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
570 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
575 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
582 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
583 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil