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 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
16 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
18 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
19 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
20 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
21 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
22 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
24 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
25 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
26 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
29 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
30 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
31 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
32 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
33 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
35 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
36 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
37 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
38 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
39 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
41 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
42 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
44 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
45 is now set to "no", not to ":".
47 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
50 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
51 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
53 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
54 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
56 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
57 default; to retain robust handling of directories
58 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
59 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
61 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
64 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
65 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
66 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
68 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
69 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
70 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
71 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
72 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
73 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
74 rmdir header dosname.h.
79 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
80 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
81 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
82 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
83 (which should have been internal to the module
84 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
85 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
86 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
87 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
90 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
91 module no longer guarantees that the following are
92 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
93 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
95 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
96 function. If you need this function, you now need
97 to request the 'iswblank' module.
99 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
101 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
102 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
104 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
105 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
107 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
108 parse-datetime module for the replacement
109 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
110 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
111 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
112 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
114 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
115 function. If you need this function, you now need
116 to request the 'waitpid' module.
118 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
119 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
120 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
121 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
123 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
124 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
125 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
126 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
128 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
129 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
130 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
131 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
132 may change again in the future once glibc provides
133 this feature as well.
135 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
137 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
138 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
139 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
141 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
142 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
144 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
145 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
147 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
148 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
150 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
151 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
154 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
155 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
157 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
158 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
161 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
162 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
163 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
164 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
166 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
167 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
168 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
169 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
172 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
173 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
174 get the functions that were previously provided.
176 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
177 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
179 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
180 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
181 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
184 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
185 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
186 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
189 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
190 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
191 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
194 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
195 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
196 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
198 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
199 must contain an explicit dependency on
202 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
203 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
204 effect except on very old platforms.
206 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
207 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
209 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
211 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
214 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
217 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
218 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
220 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
221 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
224 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
225 rather than only defined to 1.
227 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
228 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
229 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
230 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
231 include <unistd.h>. For all other
232 functions provided by this module,
233 continue to include "openat.h".
235 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
236 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
239 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
240 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
242 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
243 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
244 "long options" and "options with optional
245 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
247 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
250 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
251 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
252 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
253 The calling convention of the functions
254 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
256 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
257 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
258 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
259 The calling convention of the functions
260 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
262 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
263 The maint.mk file was copied from
264 coreutils, and the old
265 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
266 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
267 this will add several new checks. If some
268 new check is annoying, add the name of the
269 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
272 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
274 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
276 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
278 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
280 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
281 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
282 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
285 val = c_strtod (...);
286 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
289 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
290 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
292 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
293 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
295 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
296 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
297 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
298 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
299 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
300 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
302 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
305 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
308 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
311 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
313 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
315 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
318 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
321 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
324 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
327 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
330 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
333 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
334 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
335 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
336 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
337 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
339 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
340 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
341 socket descriptors are now compatible with
342 file descriptors. In general, this change
343 will simply improve your code's portability
344 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
345 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
346 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
347 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
348 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
349 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
351 This change does not remove the need to call
352 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
353 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
354 when you include the sys_socket module; while
355 the functionality will be restored soon, for
356 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
357 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
359 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
361 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
362 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
363 equivalent function, use function
364 xconcatenated_filename from module
367 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
368 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
369 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
370 You may need to create a symbolic link for
371 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
372 installed in $prefix/lib.
374 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
377 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
378 to "glthread/lock.h".
379 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
382 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
383 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
384 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
386 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
387 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
388 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
389 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
391 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
392 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
393 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
394 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
396 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
397 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
398 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
399 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
400 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
402 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
404 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
407 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
410 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
411 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
413 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
414 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
415 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
416 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
418 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
419 implementations; clients that use controlled
420 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
421 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
422 module instead for smaller code size.
424 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
425 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
426 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
427 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
428 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
430 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
431 implementations; clients that use controlled
432 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
433 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
434 module instead for smaller code size.
436 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
437 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
438 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
439 module if you need it.
441 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
444 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
447 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
448 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
449 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
450 module description for the applicable license.
452 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
453 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
454 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
456 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
457 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
458 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
461 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
462 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
463 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
465 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
467 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
468 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
470 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
471 error to standard error; that is now the
472 caller's responsibility. It returns an
473 error code of type enum strtol_error
474 instead of the integer option value, and stores
475 the option value via a new int * argument.
476 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
477 are now an option name and option argument
478 instead of an option argument and a type string,
479 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
481 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
483 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
484 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
486 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
489 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
490 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
492 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
495 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
496 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
500 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
501 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
506 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
507 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
508 that has a different signature.
510 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
511 #include "sigprocmask.h"
515 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
516 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
517 'long double' as a type exists.
519 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
520 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
521 des Renamed to crypto/des.
522 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
523 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
524 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
525 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
526 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
527 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
528 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
529 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
530 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
531 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
532 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
533 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
534 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
535 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
536 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
537 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
538 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
539 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
540 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
541 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
543 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
544 #include "vasprintf.h"
548 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
551 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
553 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
554 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
555 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
557 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
558 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
559 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
561 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
564 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
565 iconv_string -> str_iconv
566 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
569 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
570 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
571 carray-list You can pass NULL.
579 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
580 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
584 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
587 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
588 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
589 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
590 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
591 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
592 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
593 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
594 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
595 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
596 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
597 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
599 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
600 using the "des" module directly.
602 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
603 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
604 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
606 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
607 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
608 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
613 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
620 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
621 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil