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 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
16 function. If you need this function, you now need
17 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
19 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
20 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
22 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
23 function. If you need this function, you now need
24 to request the 'fchownat' module.
26 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
27 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
29 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
30 function. If you need this function, you now need
31 to request the 'fstat' module.
33 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
35 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
36 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
38 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
39 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
40 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
41 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
42 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
44 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
45 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
46 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
49 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
50 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
51 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
52 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
53 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
55 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
56 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
57 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
58 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
59 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
61 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
62 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
64 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
65 is now set to "no", not to ":".
67 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
70 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
71 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
73 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
74 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
76 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
77 default; to retain robust handling of directories
78 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
79 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
81 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
84 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
85 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
86 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
88 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
89 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
90 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
91 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
92 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
93 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
94 rmdir header dosname.h.
99 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
100 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
101 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
102 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
103 (which should have been internal to the module
104 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
105 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
106 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
107 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
110 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
111 module no longer guarantees that the following are
112 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
113 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
115 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
116 function. If you need this function, you now need
117 to request the 'iswblank' module.
119 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
121 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
122 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
124 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
125 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
127 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
128 parse-datetime module for the replacement
129 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
130 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
131 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
132 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
134 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
135 function. If you need this function, you now need
136 to request the 'waitpid' module.
138 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
139 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
140 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
141 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
143 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
144 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
145 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
146 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
148 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
149 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
150 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
151 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
152 may change again in the future once glibc provides
153 this feature as well.
155 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
157 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
158 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
159 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
161 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
162 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
164 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
165 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
167 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
168 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
170 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
171 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
174 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
175 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
177 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
178 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
181 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
182 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
183 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
184 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
186 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
187 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
188 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
189 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
192 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
193 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
194 get the functions that were previously provided.
196 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
197 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
199 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
200 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
201 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
204 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
205 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
206 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
209 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
210 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
211 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
214 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
215 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
216 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
218 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
219 must contain an explicit dependency on
222 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
223 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
224 effect except on very old platforms.
226 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
227 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
229 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
231 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
234 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
237 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
238 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
240 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
241 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
244 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
245 rather than only defined to 1.
247 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
248 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
249 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
250 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
251 include <unistd.h>. For all other
252 functions provided by this module,
253 continue to include "openat.h".
255 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
256 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
259 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
260 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
262 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
263 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
264 "long options" and "options with optional
265 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
267 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
270 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
271 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
272 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
273 The calling convention of the functions
274 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
276 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
277 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
278 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
279 The calling convention of the functions
280 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
282 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
283 The maint.mk file was copied from
284 coreutils, and the old
285 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
286 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
287 this will add several new checks. If some
288 new check is annoying, add the name of the
289 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
292 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
294 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
296 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
298 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
300 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
301 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
302 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
305 val = c_strtod (...);
306 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
309 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
310 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
312 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
313 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
315 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
316 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
317 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
318 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
319 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
320 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
322 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
325 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
328 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
331 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
333 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
335 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
338 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
341 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
344 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
347 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
350 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
353 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
354 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
355 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
356 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
357 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
359 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
360 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
361 socket descriptors are now compatible with
362 file descriptors. In general, this change
363 will simply improve your code's portability
364 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
365 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
366 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
367 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
368 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
369 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
371 This change does not remove the need to call
372 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
373 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
374 when you include the sys_socket module; while
375 the functionality will be restored soon, for
376 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
377 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
379 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
381 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
382 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
383 equivalent function, use function
384 xconcatenated_filename from module
387 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
388 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
389 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
390 You may need to create a symbolic link for
391 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
392 installed in $prefix/lib.
394 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
397 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
398 to "glthread/lock.h".
399 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
402 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
403 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
404 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
406 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
407 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
408 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
409 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
411 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
412 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
413 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
414 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
416 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
417 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
418 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
419 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
420 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
422 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
424 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
427 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
430 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
431 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
433 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
434 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
435 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
436 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
438 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
439 implementations; clients that use controlled
440 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
441 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
442 module instead for smaller code size.
444 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
445 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
446 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
447 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
448 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
450 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
451 implementations; clients that use controlled
452 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
453 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
454 module instead for smaller code size.
456 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
457 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
458 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
459 module if you need it.
461 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
464 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
467 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
468 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
469 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
470 module description for the applicable license.
472 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
473 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
474 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
476 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
477 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
478 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
481 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
482 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
483 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
485 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
487 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
488 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
490 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
491 error to standard error; that is now the
492 caller's responsibility. It returns an
493 error code of type enum strtol_error
494 instead of the integer option value, and stores
495 the option value via a new int * argument.
496 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
497 are now an option name and option argument
498 instead of an option argument and a type string,
499 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
501 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
503 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
504 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
506 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
509 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
510 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
512 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
515 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
516 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
520 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
521 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
526 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
527 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
528 that has a different signature.
530 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
531 #include "sigprocmask.h"
535 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
536 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
537 'long double' as a type exists.
539 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
540 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
541 des Renamed to crypto/des.
542 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
543 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
544 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
545 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
546 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
547 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
548 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
549 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
550 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
551 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
552 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
553 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
554 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
555 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
556 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
557 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
558 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
559 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
560 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
561 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
563 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
564 #include "vasprintf.h"
568 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
571 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
573 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
574 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
575 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
577 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
578 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
579 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
581 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
584 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
585 iconv_string -> str_iconv
586 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
589 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
590 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
591 carray-list You can pass NULL.
599 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
600 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
604 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
607 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
608 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
609 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
610 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
611 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
612 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
613 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
614 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
615 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
616 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
617 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
619 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
620 using the "des" module directly.
622 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
623 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
624 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
626 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
627 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
628 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
633 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
640 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
641 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil