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 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
16 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
17 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
18 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
19 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
21 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
22 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
23 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
26 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
27 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
28 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
29 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
30 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
32 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
33 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
34 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
35 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
36 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
38 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
39 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
41 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
42 is now set to "no", not to ":".
44 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
47 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
48 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
50 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
51 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
53 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
54 default; to retain robust handling of directories
55 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
56 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
58 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
61 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
62 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
63 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
65 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
66 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
67 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
68 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
69 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
70 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
71 rmdir header dosname.h.
76 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
77 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
78 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
79 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
80 (which should have been internal to the module
81 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
82 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
83 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
84 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
87 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
88 module no longer guarantees that the following are
89 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
90 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
92 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
93 function. If you need this function, you now need
94 to request the 'iswblank' module.
96 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
98 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
99 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
101 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
102 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
104 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
105 parse-datetime module for the replacement
106 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
107 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
108 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
109 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
111 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
112 function. If you need this function, you now need
113 to request the 'waitpid' module.
115 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
116 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
117 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
118 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
120 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
121 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
122 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
123 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
125 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
126 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
127 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
128 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
129 may change again in the future once glibc provides
130 this feature as well.
132 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
134 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
135 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
136 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
138 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
139 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
141 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
142 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
144 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
145 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
147 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
148 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
151 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
152 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
154 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
155 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
158 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
159 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
160 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
161 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
163 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
164 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
165 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
166 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
169 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
170 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
171 get the functions that were previously provided.
173 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
174 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
176 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
177 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
178 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
181 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
182 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
183 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
186 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
187 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
188 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
191 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
192 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
193 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
195 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
196 must contain an explicit dependency on
199 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
200 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
201 effect except on very old platforms.
203 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
204 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
206 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
208 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
211 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
214 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
215 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
217 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
218 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
221 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
222 rather than only defined to 1.
224 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
225 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
226 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
227 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
228 include <unistd.h>. For all other
229 functions provided by this module,
230 continue to include "openat.h".
232 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
233 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
236 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
237 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
239 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
240 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
241 "long options" and "options with optional
242 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
244 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
247 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
248 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
249 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
250 The calling convention of the functions
251 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
253 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
254 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
255 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
256 The calling convention of the functions
257 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
259 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
260 The maint.mk file was copied from
261 coreutils, and the old
262 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
263 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
264 this will add several new checks. If some
265 new check is annoying, add the name of the
266 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
269 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
271 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
273 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
275 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
277 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
278 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
279 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
282 val = c_strtod (...);
283 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
286 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
287 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
289 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
290 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
292 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
293 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
294 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
295 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
296 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
297 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
299 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
302 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
305 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
308 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
310 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
312 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
315 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
318 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
321 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
324 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
327 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
330 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
331 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
332 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
333 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
334 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
336 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
337 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
338 socket descriptors are now compatible with
339 file descriptors. In general, this change
340 will simply improve your code's portability
341 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
342 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
343 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
344 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
345 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
346 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
348 This change does not remove the need to call
349 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
350 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
351 when you include the sys_socket module; while
352 the functionality will be restored soon, for
353 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
354 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
356 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
358 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
359 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
360 equivalent function, use function
361 xconcatenated_filename from module
364 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
365 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
366 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
367 You may need to create a symbolic link for
368 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
369 installed in $prefix/lib.
371 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
374 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
375 to "glthread/lock.h".
376 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
379 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
380 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
381 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
383 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
384 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
385 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
386 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
388 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
389 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
390 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
391 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
393 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
394 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
395 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
396 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
397 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
399 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
401 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
404 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
407 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
408 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
410 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
411 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
412 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
413 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
415 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
416 implementations; clients that use controlled
417 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
418 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
419 module instead for smaller code size.
421 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
422 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
423 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
424 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
425 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
427 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
428 implementations; clients that use controlled
429 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
430 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
431 module instead for smaller code size.
433 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
434 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
435 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
436 module if you need it.
438 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
441 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
444 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
445 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
446 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
447 module description for the applicable license.
449 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
450 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
451 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
453 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
454 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
455 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
458 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
459 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
460 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
462 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
464 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
465 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
467 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
468 error to standard error; that is now the
469 caller's responsibility. It returns an
470 error code of type enum strtol_error
471 instead of the integer option value, and stores
472 the option value via a new int * argument.
473 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
474 are now an option name and option argument
475 instead of an option argument and a type string,
476 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
478 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
480 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
481 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
483 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
486 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
487 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
489 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
492 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
493 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
497 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
498 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
503 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
504 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
505 that has a different signature.
507 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
508 #include "sigprocmask.h"
512 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
513 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
514 'long double' as a type exists.
516 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
517 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
518 des Renamed to crypto/des.
519 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
520 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
521 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
522 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
523 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
524 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
525 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
526 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
527 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
528 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
529 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
530 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
531 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
532 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
533 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
534 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
535 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
536 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
537 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
538 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
540 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
541 #include "vasprintf.h"
545 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
548 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
550 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
551 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
552 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
554 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
555 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
556 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
558 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
561 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
562 iconv_string -> str_iconv
563 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
566 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
567 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
568 carray-list You can pass NULL.
576 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
577 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
581 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
584 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
585 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
586 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
587 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
588 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
589 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
590 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
591 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
592 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
593 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
594 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
596 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
597 using the "des" module directly.
599 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
600 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
601 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
603 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
604 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
605 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
610 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
617 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
618 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil