Important notes
---------------
+2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
+ now expects the complete list of modules and other
+ options on the command line. If you want to
+ augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
+ new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
+
User visible incompatible changes
---------------------------------
Date Modules Changes
+2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
+ on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
+
+2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
+ a new 'xgetgroups' module.
+
+2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
+ default; to retain robust handling of directories
+ with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
+ must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
+
+2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
+ generalized.
+
+2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
+ but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
+ 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
+
+2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
+ dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
+ backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
+ lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
+ openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
+ remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
+ rmdir header dosname.h.
+ savewd
+ stat
+ unlink
+
+2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
+ HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
+ to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
+ longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
+ (which should have been internal to the module
+ anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
+ removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
+ GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
+ KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
+ substituted for.
+
+2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
+ module no longer guarantees that the following are
+ defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
+ srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
+
+2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
+ function. If you need this function, you now need
+ to request the 'iswblank' module.
+
+2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
+
+2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
+ instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
+
+2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
+ file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
+
+2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
+ parse-datetime module for the replacement
+ function parse_datetime(), or help us write
+ getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
+ "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
+ and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
+
+2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
+ function. If you need this function, you now need
+ to request the 'waitpid' module.
+
+2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
+ signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
+ of gl_futimens should change function name, and
+ callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
+
+2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
+ first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
+ atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
+ should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
+
+2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
+ 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
+ regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
+ is being configured --with-included-regex. This
+ may change again in the future once glibc provides
+ this feature as well.
+
+2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
+
+2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
+ it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
+ Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
+
+2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
+ instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
+
+2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
+ instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
+
+2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
+ instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
+
+2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
+ file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
+ renamed to amemxfrm.
+
+2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
+ new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
+
+2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
+ option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
+ --disable-cxx.
+
+2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
+ The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
+ a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
+ checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
+
+2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
+ IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
+ add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
+ CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
+ automatically.
+
+2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
+ Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
+ get the functions that were previously provided.
+
+2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
+ instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
+
+2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
+ call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
+ module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
+ instead.
+
+2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
+ call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
+ Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
+ instead.
+
+2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
+ call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
+ Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
+ instead.
+
+2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
+ indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
+ of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
+
+2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
+ must contain an explicit dependency on
+ $(LINK_WARNING_H).
+
+2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
+ getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
+ effect except on very old platforms.
+
+2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
+ 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
+
+2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
+
+2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
+ $(INET_PTON_LIB).
+
+2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
+ $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
+
+2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
+ $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
+
+2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
+ The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
+ to <stdlib.h>.
+
+2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
+ rather than only defined to 1.
+
+2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
+ For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
+ fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
+ <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
+ include <unistd.h>. For all other
+ functions provided by this module,
+ continue to include "openat.h".
+
+2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
+ now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
+ iconv_t arguments.
+
+2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
+ 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
+
+2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
+ getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
+ "long options" and "options with optional
+ arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
+
+2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
+ <stdio.h>.
+
+2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
+ modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
+ modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
+ The calling convention of the functions
+ u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
+
+2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
+ modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
+ modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
+ The calling convention of the functions
+ u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
+
+2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
+ The maint.mk file was copied from
+ coreutils, and the old
+ coverage/gettext/indent rules were
+ re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
+ this will add several new checks. If some
+ new check is annoying, add the name of the
+ checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
+ cfg.mk.
+
+2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
+
+2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
+
+2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
+
+2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
+
+2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
+ c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
+ memory, the calling function needs to arrange
+ for it, like this:
+ errno = 0;
+ val = c_strtod (...);
+ if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
+ xalloc_die ();
+
+2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
+ need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
+
+2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
+ canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
+
+2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
+ mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
+ mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
+ longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
+ you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
+ AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
+
+2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
+ was removed.
+
+2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
+ <sys/stat.h>.
+
+2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
+ to <netdb.h>.
+
+2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
+ <math.h>.
+ isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
+ <math.h>.
+ isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
+ <math.h>.
+
+2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
+ <sys/stat.h>.
+
+2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
+ <dirent.h>.
+
+2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
+ to <unistd.h>.
+
+2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
+ to <unistd.h>.
+
+2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
+ $(LIBSOCKET).
+
+2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
+ was removed. sys_select now includes a select
+ wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
+ and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
+ by the sys_socket on MinGW.
+
+2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
+ wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
+ socket descriptors are now compatible with
+ file descriptors. In general, this change
+ will simply improve your code's portability
+ between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
+ particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
+ close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
+ and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
+ On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
+ remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
+
+ This change does not remove the need to call
+ the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
+ gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
+ when you include the sys_socket module; while
+ the functionality will be restored soon, for
+ efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
+ poll system call and gnulib module instead.
+
+2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
+
+2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
+ concatenated_filename any more. To get an
+ equivalent function, use function
+ xconcatenated_filename from module
+ 'xconcat-filename'.
+
+2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
+ libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
+ Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
+ You may need to create a symbolic link for
+ $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
+ installed in $prefix/lib.
+
+2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
+ to <string.h>.
+
+2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
+ to "glthread/lock.h".
+ tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
+ to "glthread/tls.h".
+
+2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
+ $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
+ since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
+
+2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
+ to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
+ isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
+ to "isnand-nolibm.h".
+
+2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
+ argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
+ wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
+ termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
+
+2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
+ The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
+ "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
+ mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
+ mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
+
+2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
+
+2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
+ to <arpa/inet.h>.
+
+2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
+ to <arpa/inet.h>.
+
+2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
+ now increases by 1 after ungetc.
+
+2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
+ isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
+ "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
+ defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
+
+2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
+ implementations; clients that use controlled
+ needles and thus do not care about worst-case
+ efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
+ module instead for smaller code size.
+
2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
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