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 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
16 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
18 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
19 function. If you need this function, you now need
20 to request the 'fchownat' module.
22 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
23 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
25 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
26 function. If you need this function, you now need
27 to request the 'fstat' module.
29 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
31 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
32 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
34 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
35 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
36 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
37 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
38 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
40 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
41 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
42 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
45 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
46 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
47 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
48 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
49 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
51 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
52 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
53 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
54 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
55 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
57 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
58 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
60 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
61 is now set to "no", not to ":".
63 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
66 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
67 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
69 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
70 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
72 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
73 default; to retain robust handling of directories
74 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
75 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
77 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
80 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
81 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
82 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
84 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
85 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
86 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
87 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
88 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
89 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
90 rmdir header dosname.h.
95 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
96 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
97 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
98 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
99 (which should have been internal to the module
100 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
101 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
102 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
103 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
106 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
107 module no longer guarantees that the following are
108 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
109 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
111 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
112 function. If you need this function, you now need
113 to request the 'iswblank' module.
115 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
117 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
118 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
120 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
121 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
123 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
124 parse-datetime module for the replacement
125 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
126 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
127 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
128 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
130 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
131 function. If you need this function, you now need
132 to request the 'waitpid' module.
134 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
135 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
136 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
137 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
139 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
140 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
141 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
142 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
144 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
145 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
146 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
147 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
148 may change again in the future once glibc provides
149 this feature as well.
151 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
153 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
154 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
155 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
157 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
158 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
160 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
161 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
163 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
164 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
166 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
167 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
170 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
171 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
173 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
174 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
177 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
178 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
179 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
180 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
182 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
183 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
184 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
185 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
188 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
189 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
190 get the functions that were previously provided.
192 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
193 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
195 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
196 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
197 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
200 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
201 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
202 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
205 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
206 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
207 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
210 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
211 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
212 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
214 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
215 must contain an explicit dependency on
218 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
219 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
220 effect except on very old platforms.
222 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
223 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
225 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
227 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
230 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
233 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
234 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
236 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
237 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
240 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
241 rather than only defined to 1.
243 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
244 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
245 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
246 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
247 include <unistd.h>. For all other
248 functions provided by this module,
249 continue to include "openat.h".
251 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
252 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
255 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
256 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
258 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
259 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
260 "long options" and "options with optional
261 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
263 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
266 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
267 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
268 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
269 The calling convention of the functions
270 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
272 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
273 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
274 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
275 The calling convention of the functions
276 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
278 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
279 The maint.mk file was copied from
280 coreutils, and the old
281 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
282 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
283 this will add several new checks. If some
284 new check is annoying, add the name of the
285 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
288 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
290 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
292 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
294 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
296 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
297 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
298 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
301 val = c_strtod (...);
302 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
305 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
306 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
308 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
309 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
311 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
312 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
313 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
314 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
315 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
316 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
318 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
321 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
324 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
327 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
329 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
331 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
334 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
337 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
340 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
343 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
346 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
349 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
350 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
351 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
352 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
353 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
355 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
356 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
357 socket descriptors are now compatible with
358 file descriptors. In general, this change
359 will simply improve your code's portability
360 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
361 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
362 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
363 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
364 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
365 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
367 This change does not remove the need to call
368 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
369 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
370 when you include the sys_socket module; while
371 the functionality will be restored soon, for
372 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
373 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
375 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
377 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
378 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
379 equivalent function, use function
380 xconcatenated_filename from module
383 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
384 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
385 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
386 You may need to create a symbolic link for
387 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
388 installed in $prefix/lib.
390 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
393 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
394 to "glthread/lock.h".
395 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
398 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
399 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
400 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
402 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
403 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
404 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
405 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
407 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
408 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
409 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
410 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
412 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
413 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
414 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
415 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
416 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
418 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
420 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
423 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
426 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
427 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
429 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
430 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
431 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
432 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
434 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
435 implementations; clients that use controlled
436 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
437 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
438 module instead for smaller code size.
440 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
441 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
442 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
443 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
444 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
446 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
447 implementations; clients that use controlled
448 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
449 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
450 module instead for smaller code size.
452 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
453 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
454 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
455 module if you need it.
457 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
460 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
463 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
464 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
465 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
466 module description for the applicable license.
468 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
469 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
470 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
472 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
473 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
474 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
477 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
478 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
479 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
481 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
483 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
484 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
486 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
487 error to standard error; that is now the
488 caller's responsibility. It returns an
489 error code of type enum strtol_error
490 instead of the integer option value, and stores
491 the option value via a new int * argument.
492 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
493 are now an option name and option argument
494 instead of an option argument and a type string,
495 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
497 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
499 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
500 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
502 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
505 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
506 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
508 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
511 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
512 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
516 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
517 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
522 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
523 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
524 that has a different signature.
526 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
527 #include "sigprocmask.h"
531 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
532 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
533 'long double' as a type exists.
535 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
536 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
537 des Renamed to crypto/des.
538 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
539 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
540 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
541 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
542 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
543 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
544 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
545 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
546 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
547 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
548 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
549 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
550 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
551 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
552 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
553 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
554 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
555 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
556 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
557 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
559 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
560 #include "vasprintf.h"
564 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
567 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
569 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
570 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
571 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
573 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
574 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
575 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
577 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
580 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
581 iconv_string -> str_iconv
582 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
585 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
586 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
587 carray-list You can pass NULL.
595 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
596 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
600 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
603 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
604 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
605 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
606 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
607 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
608 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
609 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
610 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
611 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
612 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
613 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
615 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
616 using the "des" module directly.
618 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
619 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
620 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
622 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
623 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
624 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
629 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
636 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
637 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil