X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3905383581938309b957b636484bc04c84e950ba;hb=17857d41b41e7b22ba58e4e0d98693ee14f022d4;hp=712408f3d2a6860bee5c4cf9e9e6e14d628e97c5;hpb=e2b0e1a20b071f1516829ffe5bbddbc41007fd63;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 712408f3d..390538358 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,110 @@ User visible incompatible changes Date Modules Changes +2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines + PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods + listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is + portable to GNU/Hurd. + +2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module. + If your code creates a socket descriptor using + socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring + to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this + stream, you need the 'fclose' module. + +2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull. + c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs. + link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning. + unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter. + warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use. + +2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use + verify_expr (V, 1) instead. + +2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX + is now set to "no", not to ":". + +2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h" + to . + +2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated + on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead. + +2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into + a new 'xgetgroups' module. + +2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by + default; to retain robust handling of directories + with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you + must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module. + +2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and + generalized. + +2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags' + but instead a pointer to a previously constructed + 'struct regex_quote_spec'. + +2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the + dirname-lgpl following symbols into : ISSLASH, + backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX, + lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR, + openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE. + remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new + rmdir header dosname.h. + savewd + stat + unlink + +2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or + HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs + to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no + longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION + (which should have been internal to the module + anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been + removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus + GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and + KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer + substituted for. + +2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this + module no longer guarantees that the following are + defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r, + srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r. + +2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank() + function. If you need this function, you now need + to request the 'iswblank' module. + +2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h. + +2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD; + instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD. + +2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include + file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h". + +2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new + parse-datetime module for the replacement + function parse_datetime(), or help us write + getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header + "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h", + and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi. + +2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid() + function. If you need this function, you now need + to request the 'waitpid' module. + +2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its + signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers + of gl_futimens should change function name, and + callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order. + +2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes + first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new + atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code + should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag. + 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program