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 fchownat()
16 function. If you need this function, you now need
17 to request the 'fchownat' module.
19 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
20 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
22 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
23 function. If you need this function, you now need
24 to request the 'fstat' module.
26 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
28 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
29 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
31 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
32 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
33 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
34 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
35 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
37 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
38 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
39 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
42 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
43 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
44 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
45 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
46 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
48 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
49 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
50 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
51 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
52 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
54 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
55 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
57 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
58 is now set to "no", not to ":".
60 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
63 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
64 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
66 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
67 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
69 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
70 default; to retain robust handling of directories
71 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
72 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
74 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
77 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
78 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
79 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
81 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
82 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
83 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
84 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
85 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
86 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
87 rmdir header dosname.h.
92 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
93 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
94 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
95 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
96 (which should have been internal to the module
97 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
98 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
99 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
100 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
103 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
104 module no longer guarantees that the following are
105 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
106 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
108 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
109 function. If you need this function, you now need
110 to request the 'iswblank' module.
112 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
114 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
115 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
117 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
118 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
120 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
121 parse-datetime module for the replacement
122 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
123 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
124 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
125 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
127 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
128 function. If you need this function, you now need
129 to request the 'waitpid' module.
131 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
132 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
133 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
134 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
136 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
137 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
138 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
139 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
141 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
142 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
143 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
144 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
145 may change again in the future once glibc provides
146 this feature as well.
148 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
150 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
151 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
152 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
154 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
155 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
157 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
158 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
160 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
161 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
163 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
164 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
167 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
168 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
170 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
171 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
174 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
175 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
176 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
177 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
179 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
180 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
181 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
182 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
185 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
186 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
187 get the functions that were previously provided.
189 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
190 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
192 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
193 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
194 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
197 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
198 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
199 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
202 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
203 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
204 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
207 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
208 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
209 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
211 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
212 must contain an explicit dependency on
215 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
216 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
217 effect except on very old platforms.
219 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
220 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
222 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
224 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
227 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
230 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
231 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
233 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
234 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
237 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
238 rather than only defined to 1.
240 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
241 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
242 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
243 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
244 include <unistd.h>. For all other
245 functions provided by this module,
246 continue to include "openat.h".
248 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
249 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
252 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
253 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
255 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
256 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
257 "long options" and "options with optional
258 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
260 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
263 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
264 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
265 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
266 The calling convention of the functions
267 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
269 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
270 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
271 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
272 The calling convention of the functions
273 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
275 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
276 The maint.mk file was copied from
277 coreutils, and the old
278 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
279 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
280 this will add several new checks. If some
281 new check is annoying, add the name of the
282 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
285 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
287 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
289 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
291 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
293 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
294 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
295 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
298 val = c_strtod (...);
299 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
302 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
303 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
305 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
306 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
308 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
309 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
310 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
311 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
312 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
313 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
315 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
318 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
321 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
324 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
326 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
328 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
331 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
334 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
337 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
340 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
343 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
346 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
347 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
348 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
349 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
350 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
352 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
353 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
354 socket descriptors are now compatible with
355 file descriptors. In general, this change
356 will simply improve your code's portability
357 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
358 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
359 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
360 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
361 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
362 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
364 This change does not remove the need to call
365 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
366 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
367 when you include the sys_socket module; while
368 the functionality will be restored soon, for
369 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
370 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
372 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
374 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
375 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
376 equivalent function, use function
377 xconcatenated_filename from module
380 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
381 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
382 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
383 You may need to create a symbolic link for
384 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
385 installed in $prefix/lib.
387 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
390 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
391 to "glthread/lock.h".
392 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
395 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
396 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
397 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
399 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
400 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
401 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
402 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
404 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
405 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
406 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
407 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
409 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
410 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
411 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
412 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
413 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
415 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
417 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
420 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
423 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
424 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
426 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
427 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
428 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
429 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
431 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
432 implementations; clients that use controlled
433 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
434 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
435 module instead for smaller code size.
437 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
438 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
439 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
440 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
441 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
443 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
444 implementations; clients that use controlled
445 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
446 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
447 module instead for smaller code size.
449 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
450 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
451 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
452 module if you need it.
454 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
457 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
460 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
461 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
462 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
463 module description for the applicable license.
465 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
466 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
467 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
469 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
470 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
471 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
474 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
475 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
476 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
478 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
480 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
481 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
483 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
484 error to standard error; that is now the
485 caller's responsibility. It returns an
486 error code of type enum strtol_error
487 instead of the integer option value, and stores
488 the option value via a new int * argument.
489 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
490 are now an option name and option argument
491 instead of an option argument and a type string,
492 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
494 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
496 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
497 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
499 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
502 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
503 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
505 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
508 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
509 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
513 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
514 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
519 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
520 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
521 that has a different signature.
523 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
524 #include "sigprocmask.h"
528 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
529 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
530 'long double' as a type exists.
532 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
533 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
534 des Renamed to crypto/des.
535 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
536 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
537 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
538 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
539 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
540 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
541 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
542 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
543 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
544 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
545 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
546 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
547 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
548 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
549 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
550 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
551 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
552 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
553 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
554 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
556 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
557 #include "vasprintf.h"
561 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
564 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
566 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
567 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
568 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
570 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
571 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
572 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
574 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
577 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
578 iconv_string -> str_iconv
579 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
582 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
583 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
584 carray-list You can pass NULL.
592 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
593 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
597 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
600 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
601 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
602 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
603 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
604 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
605 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
606 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
607 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
608 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
609 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
610 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
612 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
613 using the "des" module directly.
615 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
616 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
617 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
619 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
620 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
621 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
626 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
633 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
634 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil