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 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
16 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
18 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
19 function. If you need this function, you now need
20 to request the 'fstat' module.
22 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
24 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
25 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
27 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
28 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
29 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
30 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
31 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
33 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
34 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
35 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
38 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
39 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
40 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
41 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
42 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
44 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
45 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
46 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
47 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
48 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
50 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
51 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
53 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
54 is now set to "no", not to ":".
56 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
59 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
60 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
62 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
63 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
65 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
66 default; to retain robust handling of directories
67 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
68 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
70 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
73 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
74 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
75 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
77 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
78 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
79 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
80 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
81 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
82 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
83 rmdir header dosname.h.
88 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
89 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
90 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
91 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
92 (which should have been internal to the module
93 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
94 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
95 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
96 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
99 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
100 module no longer guarantees that the following are
101 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
102 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
104 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
105 function. If you need this function, you now need
106 to request the 'iswblank' module.
108 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
110 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
111 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
113 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
114 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
116 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
117 parse-datetime module for the replacement
118 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
119 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
120 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
121 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
123 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
124 function. If you need this function, you now need
125 to request the 'waitpid' module.
127 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
128 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
129 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
130 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
132 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
133 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
134 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
135 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
137 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
138 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
139 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
140 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
141 may change again in the future once glibc provides
142 this feature as well.
144 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
146 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
147 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
148 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
150 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
151 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
153 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
154 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
156 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
157 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
159 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
160 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
163 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
164 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
166 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
167 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
170 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
171 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
172 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
173 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
175 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
176 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
177 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
178 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
181 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
182 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
183 get the functions that were previously provided.
185 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
186 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
188 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
189 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
190 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
193 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
194 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
195 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
198 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
199 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
200 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
203 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
204 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
205 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
207 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
208 must contain an explicit dependency on
211 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
212 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
213 effect except on very old platforms.
215 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
216 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
218 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
220 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
223 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
226 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
227 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
229 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
230 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
233 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
234 rather than only defined to 1.
236 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
237 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
238 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
239 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
240 include <unistd.h>. For all other
241 functions provided by this module,
242 continue to include "openat.h".
244 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
245 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
248 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
249 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
251 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
252 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
253 "long options" and "options with optional
254 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
256 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
259 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
260 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
261 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
262 The calling convention of the functions
263 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
265 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
266 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
267 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
268 The calling convention of the functions
269 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
271 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
272 The maint.mk file was copied from
273 coreutils, and the old
274 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
275 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
276 this will add several new checks. If some
277 new check is annoying, add the name of the
278 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
281 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
283 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
285 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
287 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
289 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
290 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
291 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
294 val = c_strtod (...);
295 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
298 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
299 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
301 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
302 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
304 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
305 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
306 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
307 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
308 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
309 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
311 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
314 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
317 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
320 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
322 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
324 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
327 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
330 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
333 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
336 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
339 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
342 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
343 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
344 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
345 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
346 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
348 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
349 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
350 socket descriptors are now compatible with
351 file descriptors. In general, this change
352 will simply improve your code's portability
353 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
354 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
355 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
356 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
357 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
358 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
360 This change does not remove the need to call
361 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
362 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
363 when you include the sys_socket module; while
364 the functionality will be restored soon, for
365 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
366 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
368 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
370 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
371 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
372 equivalent function, use function
373 xconcatenated_filename from module
376 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
377 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
378 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
379 You may need to create a symbolic link for
380 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
381 installed in $prefix/lib.
383 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
386 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
387 to "glthread/lock.h".
388 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
391 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
392 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
393 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
395 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
396 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
397 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
398 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
400 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
401 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
402 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
403 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
405 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
406 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
407 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
408 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
409 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
411 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
413 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
416 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
419 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
420 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
422 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
423 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
424 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
425 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
427 2008-01-14 strcasestr 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 strcasestr-simple
431 module instead for smaller code size.
433 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
434 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
435 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
436 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
437 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
439 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
440 implementations; clients that use controlled
441 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
442 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
443 module instead for smaller code size.
445 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
446 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
447 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
448 module if you need it.
450 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
453 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
456 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
457 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
458 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
459 module description for the applicable license.
461 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
462 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
463 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
465 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
466 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
467 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
470 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
471 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
472 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
474 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
476 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
477 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
479 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
480 error to standard error; that is now the
481 caller's responsibility. It returns an
482 error code of type enum strtol_error
483 instead of the integer option value, and stores
484 the option value via a new int * argument.
485 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
486 are now an option name and option argument
487 instead of an option argument and a type string,
488 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
490 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
492 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
493 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
495 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
498 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
499 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
501 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
504 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
505 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
509 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
510 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
515 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
516 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
517 that has a different signature.
519 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
520 #include "sigprocmask.h"
524 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
525 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
526 'long double' as a type exists.
528 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
529 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
530 des Renamed to crypto/des.
531 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
532 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
533 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
534 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
535 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
536 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
537 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
538 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
539 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
540 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
541 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
542 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
543 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
544 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
545 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
546 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
547 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
548 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
549 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
550 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
552 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
553 #include "vasprintf.h"
557 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
560 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
562 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
563 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
564 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
566 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
567 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
568 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
570 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
573 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
574 iconv_string -> str_iconv
575 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
578 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
579 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
580 carray-list You can pass NULL.
588 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
589 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
593 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
596 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
597 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
598 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
599 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
600 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
601 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
602 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
603 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
604 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
605 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
606 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
608 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
609 using the "des" module directly.
611 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
612 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
613 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
615 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
616 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
617 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
622 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
629 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
630 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil