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 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
17 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
18 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
20 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
21 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
22 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
23 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
24 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
26 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
27 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
28 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
31 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
32 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
33 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
34 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
35 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
37 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
38 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
39 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
40 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
41 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
43 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
44 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
46 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
47 is now set to "no", not to ":".
49 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
52 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
53 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
55 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
56 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
58 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
59 default; to retain robust handling of directories
60 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
61 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
63 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
66 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
67 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
68 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
70 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
71 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
72 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
73 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
74 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
75 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
76 rmdir header dosname.h.
81 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
82 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
83 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
84 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
85 (which should have been internal to the module
86 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
87 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
88 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
89 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
92 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
93 module no longer guarantees that the following are
94 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
95 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
97 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
98 function. If you need this function, you now need
99 to request the 'iswblank' module.
101 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
103 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
104 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
106 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
107 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
109 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
110 parse-datetime module for the replacement
111 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
112 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
113 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
114 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
116 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
117 function. If you need this function, you now need
118 to request the 'waitpid' module.
120 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
121 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
122 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
123 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
125 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
126 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
127 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
128 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
130 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
131 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
132 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
133 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
134 may change again in the future once glibc provides
135 this feature as well.
137 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
139 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
140 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
141 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
143 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
144 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
146 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
147 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
149 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
150 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
152 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
153 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
156 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
157 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
159 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
160 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
163 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
164 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
165 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
166 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
168 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
169 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
170 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
171 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
174 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
175 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
176 get the functions that were previously provided.
178 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
179 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
181 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
182 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
183 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
186 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
187 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
188 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
191 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
192 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
193 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
196 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
197 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
198 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
200 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
201 must contain an explicit dependency on
204 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
205 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
206 effect except on very old platforms.
208 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
209 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
211 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
213 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
216 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
219 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
220 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
222 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
223 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
226 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
227 rather than only defined to 1.
229 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
230 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
231 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
232 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
233 include <unistd.h>. For all other
234 functions provided by this module,
235 continue to include "openat.h".
237 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
238 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
241 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
242 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
244 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
245 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
246 "long options" and "options with optional
247 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
249 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
252 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
253 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
254 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
255 The calling convention of the functions
256 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
258 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
259 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
260 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
261 The calling convention of the functions
262 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
264 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
265 The maint.mk file was copied from
266 coreutils, and the old
267 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
268 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
269 this will add several new checks. If some
270 new check is annoying, add the name of the
271 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
274 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
276 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
278 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
280 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
282 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
283 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
284 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
287 val = c_strtod (...);
288 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
291 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
292 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
294 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
295 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
297 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
298 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
299 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
300 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
301 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
302 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
304 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
307 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
310 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
313 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
315 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
317 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
320 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
323 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
326 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
329 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
332 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
335 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
336 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
337 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
338 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
339 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
341 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
342 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
343 socket descriptors are now compatible with
344 file descriptors. In general, this change
345 will simply improve your code's portability
346 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
347 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
348 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
349 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
350 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
351 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
353 This change does not remove the need to call
354 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
355 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
356 when you include the sys_socket module; while
357 the functionality will be restored soon, for
358 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
359 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
361 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
363 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
364 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
365 equivalent function, use function
366 xconcatenated_filename from module
369 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
370 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
371 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
372 You may need to create a symbolic link for
373 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
374 installed in $prefix/lib.
376 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
379 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
380 to "glthread/lock.h".
381 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
384 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
385 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
386 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
388 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
389 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
390 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
391 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
393 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
394 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
395 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
396 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
398 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
399 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
400 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
401 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
402 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
404 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
406 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
409 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
412 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
413 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
415 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
416 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
417 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
418 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
420 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
421 implementations; clients that use controlled
422 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
423 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
424 module instead for smaller code size.
426 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
427 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
428 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
429 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
430 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
432 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
433 implementations; clients that use controlled
434 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
435 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
436 module instead for smaller code size.
438 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
439 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
440 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
441 module if you need it.
443 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
446 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
449 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
450 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
451 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
452 module description for the applicable license.
454 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
455 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
456 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
458 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
459 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
460 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
463 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
464 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
465 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
467 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
469 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
470 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
472 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
473 error to standard error; that is now the
474 caller's responsibility. It returns an
475 error code of type enum strtol_error
476 instead of the integer option value, and stores
477 the option value via a new int * argument.
478 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
479 are now an option name and option argument
480 instead of an option argument and a type string,
481 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
483 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
485 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
486 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
488 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
491 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
492 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
494 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
497 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
498 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
502 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
503 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
508 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
509 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
510 that has a different signature.
512 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
513 #include "sigprocmask.h"
517 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
518 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
519 'long double' as a type exists.
521 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
522 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
523 des Renamed to crypto/des.
524 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
525 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
526 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
527 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
528 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
529 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
530 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
531 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
532 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
533 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
534 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
535 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
536 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
537 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
538 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
539 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
540 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
541 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
542 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
543 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
545 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
546 #include "vasprintf.h"
550 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
553 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
555 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
556 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
557 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
559 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
560 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
561 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
563 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
566 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
567 iconv_string -> str_iconv
568 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
571 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
572 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
573 carray-list You can pass NULL.
581 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
582 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
586 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
589 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
590 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
591 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
592 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
593 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
594 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
595 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
596 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
597 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
598 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
599 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
601 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
602 using the "des" module directly.
604 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
605 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
606 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
608 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
609 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
610 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
615 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
622 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
623 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil