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 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
17 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
18 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
20 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
21 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
23 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
24 parse-datetime module for the replacement
25 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
26 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
27 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
28 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
30 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
31 function. If you need this function, you now need
32 to request the 'waitpid' module.
34 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
35 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
36 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
37 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
39 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
40 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
41 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
42 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
44 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
45 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
46 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
47 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
48 may change again in the future once glibc provides
51 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
53 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
54 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
55 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
57 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
58 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
60 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
61 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
63 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
64 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
66 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
67 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
70 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
71 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
73 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
74 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
77 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
78 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
79 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
80 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
82 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
83 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
84 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
85 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
88 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
89 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
90 get the functions that were previously provided.
92 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
93 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
95 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
96 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
97 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
100 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
101 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
102 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
105 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
106 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
107 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
110 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
111 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
112 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
114 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
115 must contain an explicit dependency on
118 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
119 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
120 effect except on very old platforms.
122 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
123 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
125 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
127 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
130 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
133 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
134 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
136 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
137 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
140 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
141 rather than only defined to 1.
143 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
144 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
145 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
146 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
147 include <unistd.h>. For all other
148 functions provided by this module,
149 continue to include "openat.h".
151 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
152 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
155 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
156 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
158 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
159 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
160 "long options" and "options with optional
161 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
163 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
166 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
167 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
168 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
169 The calling convention of the functions
170 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
172 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
173 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
174 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
175 The calling convention of the functions
176 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
178 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
179 The maint.mk file was copied from
180 coreutils, and the old
181 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
182 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
183 this will add several new checks. If some
184 new check is annoying, add the name of the
185 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
188 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
190 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
192 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
194 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
196 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
197 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
198 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
201 val = c_strtod (...);
202 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
205 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
206 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
208 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
209 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
211 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
212 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
213 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
214 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
215 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
216 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
218 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
221 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
224 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
227 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
229 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
231 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
234 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
237 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
240 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
243 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
246 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
249 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
250 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
251 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
252 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
253 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
255 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
256 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
257 socket descriptors are now compatible with
258 file descriptors. In general, this change
259 will simply improve your code's portability
260 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
261 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
262 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
263 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
264 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
265 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
267 This change does not remove the need to call
268 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
269 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
270 when you include the sys_socket module; while
271 the functionality will be restored soon, for
272 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
273 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
275 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
277 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
278 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
279 equivalent function, use function
280 xconcatenated_filename from module
283 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
284 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
285 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
286 You may need to create a symbolic link for
287 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
288 installed in $prefix/lib.
290 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
293 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
294 to "glthread/lock.h".
295 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
298 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
299 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
300 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
302 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
303 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
304 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
305 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
307 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
308 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
309 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
310 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
312 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
313 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
314 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
315 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
316 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
318 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
320 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
323 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
326 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
327 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
329 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
330 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
331 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
332 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
334 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
335 implementations; clients that use controlled
336 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
337 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
338 module instead for smaller code size.
340 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
341 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
342 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
343 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
344 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
346 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
347 implementations; clients that use controlled
348 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
349 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
350 module instead for smaller code size.
352 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
353 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
354 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
355 module if you need it.
357 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
360 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
363 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
364 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
365 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
366 module description for the applicable license.
368 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
369 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
370 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
372 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
373 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
374 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
377 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
378 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
379 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
381 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
383 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
384 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
386 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
387 error to standard error; that is now the
388 caller's responsibility. It returns an
389 error code of type enum strtol_error
390 instead of the integer option value, and stores
391 the option value via a new int * argument.
392 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
393 are now an option name and option argument
394 instead of an option argument and a type string,
395 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
397 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
399 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
400 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
402 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
405 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
406 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
408 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
411 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
412 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
416 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
417 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
422 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
423 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
424 that has a different signature.
426 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
427 #include "sigprocmask.h"
431 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
432 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
433 'long double' as a type exists.
435 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
436 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
437 des Renamed to crypto/des.
438 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
439 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
440 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
441 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
442 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
443 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
444 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
445 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
446 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
447 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
448 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
449 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
450 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
451 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
452 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
453 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
454 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
455 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
456 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
457 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
459 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
460 #include "vasprintf.h"
464 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
467 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
469 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
470 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
471 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
473 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
474 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
475 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
477 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
480 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
481 iconv_string -> str_iconv
482 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
485 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
486 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
487 carray-list You can pass NULL.
495 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
496 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
500 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
503 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
504 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
505 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
506 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
507 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
508 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
509 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
510 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
511 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
512 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
513 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
515 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
516 using the "des" module directly.
518 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
519 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
520 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
522 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
523 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
524 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
529 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
536 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
537 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil