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1 Important general notes
2 -----------------------
4 Date Modules Changes
6 2019-12-11 Support for These modules are now supported in C++ mode as well.
7 ISO C or POSIX This means, while the autoconfiguration uses the C
8 functions compiler, the resulting header files and function
9 substitutes can be used with a matching C++ compiler
10 as well.
12 2019-02-14 gnulib-tool If you use multiple --local-dir options at once:
13 The first one now has the highest priority, not the
14 last one.
16 2019-01-04 (all) The meaning of the 'Link' section in the module
17 descriptions has been clarified: It overrides the
18 combined 'Link' sections from the dependencies.
20 2018-10-22 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.63 are required.
22 2016-09-05 progname There is now an alternate module 'getprogname'. It
23 defines a getprogname() function; use it to obtain
24 the name of the current program.
25 Recommended use:
26 - In a program's main() function, and associated
27 usage() and help() functions, use 'progname'.
28 - In library code, or more generally any code that
29 is not near the main() function, use
30 'getprogname'.
32 2013-04-24 gettext If your project uses 'gettextize --intl' it is now
33 your responsibility to put -I$(top_builddir)/intl
34 into the Makefile.am for gnulib.
36 2012-06-27 elisp-comp The module 'elisp-comp' is removed; the script is
37 not independently useful outside of automake.
39 2012-06-21 gnulib-tool The option --with-tests is now implied by the
40 options --create-testdir, --test,
41 --create-megatestdir, --megatest.
43 2012-01-07 quotearg In the C locale, the function will no longer use
44 the grave accent character to begin a quoted
45 string (`like this'). It will use apostrophes
46 'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
47 ‘like these’. You may want to adjust any error
48 messages that hard code the quoting characters.
50 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
51 now expects the complete list of modules and other
52 options on the command line. If you want to
53 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
54 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
56 User visible incompatible changes
57 ---------------------------------
59 Date Modules Changes
61 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
62 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
63 #include "getdate.h"
64 write
65 #include "parse-datetime.h"
66 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
68 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
69 'realloc-gnu' instead.
71 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
72 'calloc-gnu' instead.
74 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
75 'malloc-gnu' instead.
77 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
78 'fnmatch' instead.
80 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
81 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
82 #include "pipe.h"
83 write
84 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
86 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
87 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
88 provides "long options" and "options with optional
89 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
91 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
92 module 'rename' instead.
94 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
95 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
97 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
98 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
100 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
101 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
102 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
103 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
105 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
106 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
107 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
108 list of imported modules.
110 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
111 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
112 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
113 list of imported modules.
115 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
116 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
117 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
118 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
119 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
120 per POSIX and BSD.
122 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
124 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
126 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
127 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
128 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
130 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
131 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
132 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
133 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
135 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
137 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
138 takes the signal as argument.
140 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
141 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
142 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
144 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
145 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
147 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
148 now take an additional directory file descriptor
149 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
151 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
152 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
154 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
156 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
157 its include files and functions are renamed
158 accordingly.
160 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
161 on 2006-07-17.
163 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
164 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
165 not both). Now, callers should specify
166 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
167 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
169 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
170 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
171 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
173 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
175 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
176 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
177 stderr afterwards.
179 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
180 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
182 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
183 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
184 time zone and its name.
186 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
187 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
189 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
190 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
192 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
193 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
195 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
197 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
198 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
200 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
201 Programs intended to be portable to C++
202 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
204 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
205 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
206 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
208 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
209 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
210 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
211 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
213 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
215 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
216 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
217 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
218 modules now depend on time_rz.
220 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
221 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
222 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
223 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
225 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
226 detection routine, then the requirements are
227 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
228 than $LIB_ACL.
230 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
232 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
233 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
234 This changes both the ABI and the API.
235 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
236 shrink the current object; callers must now use
237 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
238 large positive) size for that.
240 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
241 were removed from public structures, and the
242 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
243 and compareseq.
245 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
246 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
247 The fdsavedir function is removed.
249 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
251 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
252 function.
254 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
255 processing is resettable. If your code uses
256 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
257 only one pass over the argument array.
259 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
260 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
262 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
263 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
264 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
265 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
267 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
268 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
269 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
271 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
272 function. If you need this function, you now need
273 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
275 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
276 function. If you need this function, you now need
277 to request the 'fstatat' module.
279 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
280 function. If you need this function, you now need
281 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
283 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
284 function. If you need this function, you now need
285 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
287 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
288 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
290 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
291 function. If you need this function, you now need
292 to request the 'fchownat' module.
294 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
295 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
297 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
298 function. If you need this function, you now need
299 to request the 'fstat' module.
301 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
303 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
304 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
306 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
307 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
308 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
309 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
310 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
312 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
313 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
314 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
315 portable to GNU/Hurd.
317 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
318 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
319 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
320 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
321 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
323 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
324 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
325 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
326 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
327 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
329 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
330 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
332 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
333 is now set to "no", not to ":".
335 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
336 to <unistd.h>.
338 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
339 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
341 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
342 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
344 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
345 default; to retain robust handling of directories
346 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
347 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
349 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
350 generalized.
352 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
353 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
354 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
356 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
357 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
358 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
359 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
360 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
361 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
362 rmdir header dosname.h.
363 savewd
364 stat
365 unlink
367 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
368 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
369 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
370 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
371 (which should have been internal to the module
372 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
373 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
374 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
375 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
376 substituted for.
378 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
379 module no longer guarantees that the following are
380 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
381 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
383 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
384 function. If you need this function, you now need
385 to request the 'iswblank' module.
387 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
389 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
390 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
392 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
393 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
395 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
396 parse-datetime module for the replacement
397 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
398 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
399 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
400 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
402 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
403 function. If you need this function, you now need
404 to request the 'waitpid' module.
406 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
407 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
408 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
409 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
411 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
412 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
413 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
414 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
416 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
417 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
418 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
419 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
420 may change again in the future once glibc provides
421 this feature as well.
423 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
425 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
426 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
427 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
429 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
430 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
432 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
433 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
435 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
436 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
438 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
439 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
440 renamed to amemxfrm.
442 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
443 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
445 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
446 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
447 --disable-cxx.
449 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
450 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
451 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
452 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
454 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
455 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
456 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
457 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
458 automatically.
460 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
461 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
462 get the functions that were previously provided.
464 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
465 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
467 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
468 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
469 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
470 instead.
472 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
473 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
474 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
475 instead.
477 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
478 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
479 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
480 instead.
482 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
483 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
484 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
486 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
487 must contain an explicit dependency on
488 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
490 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
491 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
492 effect except on very old platforms.
494 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
495 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
497 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
499 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
500 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
502 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
503 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
505 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
506 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
508 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
509 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
510 to <stdlib.h>.
512 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
513 rather than only defined to 1.
515 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
516 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
517 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
518 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
519 include <unistd.h>. For all other
520 functions provided by this module,
521 continue to include "openat.h".
523 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
524 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
525 iconv_t arguments.
527 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
528 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
530 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
531 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
532 "long options" and "options with optional
533 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
535 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
536 <stdio.h>.
538 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
539 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
540 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
541 The calling convention of the functions
542 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
544 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
545 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
546 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
547 The calling convention of the functions
548 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
550 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
551 The maint.mk file was copied from
552 coreutils, and the old
553 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
554 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
555 this will add several new checks. If some
556 new check is annoying, add the name of the
557 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
558 cfg.mk.
560 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
562 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
564 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
566 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
568 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
569 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
570 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
571 for it, like this:
572 errno = 0;
573 val = c_strtod (...);
574 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
575 xalloc_die ();
577 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
578 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
580 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
581 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
583 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
584 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
585 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
586 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
587 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
588 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
590 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
591 was removed.
593 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
594 <sys/stat.h>.
596 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
597 to <netdb.h>.
599 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
600 <math.h>.
601 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
602 <math.h>.
603 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
604 <math.h>.
606 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
607 <sys/stat.h>.
609 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
610 <dirent.h>.
612 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
613 to <unistd.h>.
615 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
616 to <unistd.h>.
618 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
619 $(LIBSOCKET).
621 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
622 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
623 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
624 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
625 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
627 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
628 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
629 socket descriptors are now compatible with
630 file descriptors. In general, this change
631 will simply improve your code's portability
632 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
633 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
634 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
635 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
636 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
637 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
639 This change does not remove the need to call
640 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
641 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
642 when you include the sys_socket module; while
643 the functionality will be restored soon, for
644 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
645 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
647 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
649 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
650 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
651 equivalent function, use function
652 xconcatenated_filename from module
653 'xconcat-filename'.
655 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
656 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
657 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
658 You may need to create a symbolic link for
659 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
660 installed in $prefix/lib.
662 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
663 to <string.h>.
665 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
666 to "glthread/lock.h".
667 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
668 to "glthread/tls.h".
670 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
671 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
672 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
674 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
675 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
676 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
677 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
679 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
680 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
681 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
682 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
684 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
685 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
686 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
687 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
688 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
690 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
692 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
693 to <arpa/inet.h>.
695 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
696 to <arpa/inet.h>.
698 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
699 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
701 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
702 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
703 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
704 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
706 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
707 implementations; clients that use controlled
708 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
709 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
710 module instead for smaller code size.
712 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
713 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
714 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
715 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
716 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
718 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
719 implementations; clients that use controlled
720 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
721 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
722 module instead for smaller code size.
724 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
725 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
726 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
727 module if you need it.
729 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
730 to <unistd.h>.
732 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
733 <strings.h>.
735 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
736 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
737 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
738 module description for the applicable license.
740 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
741 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
742 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
744 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
745 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
746 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
747 areadlink_with_size.
749 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
750 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
751 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
753 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
755 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
756 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
758 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
759 error to standard error; that is now the
760 caller's responsibility. It returns an
761 error code of type enum strtol_error
762 instead of the integer option value, and stores
763 the option value via a new int * argument.
764 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
765 are now an option name and option argument
766 instead of an option argument and a type string,
767 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
769 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
771 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
772 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
774 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
775 <wchar.h>.
777 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
778 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
780 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
781 <unistd.h>.
783 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
784 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
785 renamed:
786 xallocsa -> xmalloca
788 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
789 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
790 macros were renamed:
791 allocsa -> malloca
792 freesa -> freea
794 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
795 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
796 that has a different signature.
798 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
799 #include "sigprocmask.h"
800 with
801 #include <signal.h>
803 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
804 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
805 'long double' as a type exists.
807 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
808 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
809 des Renamed to crypto/des.
810 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
811 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
812 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
813 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
814 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
815 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
816 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
817 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
818 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
819 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
820 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
821 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
822 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
823 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
824 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
825 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
826 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
827 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
828 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
829 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
831 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
832 #include "vasprintf.h"
833 with
834 #include <stdio.h>
836 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
837 <search.h>.
839 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
840 to "unistr.h".
841 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
842 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
843 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
844 to "unistr.h".
845 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
846 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
847 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
848 to "unistr.h".
849 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
850 to "unistr.h".
852 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
853 iconv_string -> str_iconv
854 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
855 arguments)
857 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
858 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
859 carray-list You can pass NULL.
860 linked-list
861 linkedhash-list
862 avltree-list
863 rbtree-list
864 avltreehash-list
865 rbtreehash-list
867 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
868 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
869 avltree-oset
870 rbtree-oset
872 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
873 gc-des renamed:
875 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
876 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
877 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
878 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
879 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
880 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
881 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
882 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
883 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
884 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
885 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
887 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
888 using the "des" module directly.
890 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
891 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
892 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
894 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
895 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
896 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
897 #include "mkstemp.h"
898 with
899 #include <stdlib.h>
901 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
902 #include "strdup.h"
903 with
904 #include <string.h>
906 # This is for Emacs.
907 # Local Variables:
908 # coding: utf-8
909 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
910 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
911 # End: