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 2010-09-16 fdutimensat The function now takes a new parameter; old users
16 can safely pass atflag=0 for no semantic change.
18 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
19 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
20 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
21 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
22 may change again in the future once glibc provides
25 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
27 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
28 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
29 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
31 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
32 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
34 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
35 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
37 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
38 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
40 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
41 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
44 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
45 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
47 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
48 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
51 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
52 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
53 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
54 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
56 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
57 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
58 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
59 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
62 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
63 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
64 get the functions that were previously provided.
66 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
67 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
69 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
70 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
71 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
74 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
75 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
76 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
79 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
80 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
81 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
84 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
85 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
86 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
88 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
89 must contain an explicit dependency on
92 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
93 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
94 effect except on very old platforms.
96 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
97 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
99 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
101 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
104 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
107 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
108 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
110 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
111 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
114 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
115 rather than only defined to 1.
117 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
118 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
119 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
120 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
121 include <unistd.h>. For all other
122 functions provided by this module,
123 continue to include "openat.h".
125 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
126 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
129 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
130 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
132 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
133 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
134 "long options" and "options with optional
135 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
137 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
140 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
141 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
142 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
143 The calling convention of the functions
144 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
146 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
147 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
148 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
149 The calling convention of the functions
150 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
152 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
153 The maint.mk file was copied from
154 coreutils, and the old
155 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
156 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
157 this will add several new checks. If some
158 new check is annoying, add the name of the
159 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
162 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
164 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
166 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
168 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
170 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
171 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
172 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
175 val = c_strtod (...);
176 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
179 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
180 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
182 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
183 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
185 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
186 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
187 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
188 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
189 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
190 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
192 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
195 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
198 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
201 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
203 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
205 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
208 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
211 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
214 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
217 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
220 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
223 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
224 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
225 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
226 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
227 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
229 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
230 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
231 socket descriptors are now compatible with
232 file descriptors. In general, this change
233 will simply improve your code's portability
234 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
235 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
236 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
237 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
238 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
239 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
241 This change does not remove the need to call
242 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
243 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
244 when you include the sys_socket module; while
245 the functionality will be restored soon, for
246 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
247 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
249 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
251 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
252 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
253 equivalent function, use function
254 xconcatenated_filename from module
257 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
258 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
259 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
260 You may need to create a symbolic link for
261 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
262 installed in $prefix/lib.
264 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
267 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
268 to "glthread/lock.h".
269 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
272 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
273 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
274 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
276 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
277 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
278 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
279 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
281 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
282 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
283 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
284 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
286 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
287 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
288 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
289 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
290 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
292 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
294 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
297 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
300 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
301 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
303 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
304 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
305 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
306 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
308 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
309 implementations; clients that use controlled
310 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
311 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
312 module instead for smaller code size.
314 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
315 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
316 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
317 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
318 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
320 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
321 implementations; clients that use controlled
322 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
323 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
324 module instead for smaller code size.
326 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
327 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
328 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
329 module if you need it.
331 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
334 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
337 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
338 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
339 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
340 module description for the applicable license.
342 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
343 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
344 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
346 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
347 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
348 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
351 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
352 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
353 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
355 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
357 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
358 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
360 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
361 error to standard error; that is now the
362 caller's responsibility. It returns an
363 error code of type enum strtol_error
364 instead of the integer option value, and stores
365 the option value via a new int * argument.
366 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
367 are now an option name and option argument
368 instead of an option argument and a type string,
369 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
371 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
373 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
374 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
376 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
379 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
380 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
382 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
385 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
386 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
390 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
391 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
396 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
397 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
398 that has a different signature.
400 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
401 #include "sigprocmask.h"
405 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
406 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
407 'long double' as a type exists.
409 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
410 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
411 des Renamed to crypto/des.
412 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
413 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
414 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
415 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
416 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
417 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
418 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
419 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
420 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
421 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
422 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
423 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
424 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
425 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
426 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
427 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
428 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
429 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
430 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
431 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
433 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
434 #include "vasprintf.h"
438 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
441 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
443 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
444 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
445 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
447 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
448 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
449 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
451 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
454 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
455 iconv_string -> str_iconv
456 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
459 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
460 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
461 carray-list You can pass NULL.
469 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
470 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
474 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
477 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
478 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
479 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
480 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
481 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
482 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
483 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
484 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
485 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
486 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
487 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
489 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
490 using the "des" module directly.
492 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
493 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
494 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
496 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
497 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
498 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
503 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
510 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
511 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil