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1 Important general notes
2 -----------------------
4 Date Modules Changes
6 2020-08-16 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.64 are required.
8 2019-12-11 Support for These modules are now supported in C++ mode as well.
9 ISO C or POSIX This means, while the autoconfiguration uses the C
10 functions compiler, the resulting header files and function
11 substitutes can be used with a matching C++ compiler
12 as well.
14 2019-02-14 gnulib-tool If you use multiple --local-dir options at once:
15 The first one now has the highest priority, not the
16 last one.
18 2019-01-04 (all) The meaning of the 'Link' section in the module
19 descriptions has been clarified: It overrides the
20 combined 'Link' sections from the dependencies.
22 2018-10-22 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.63 are required.
24 2016-09-05 progname There is now an alternate module 'getprogname'. It
25 defines a getprogname() function; use it to obtain
26 the name of the current program.
27 Recommended use:
28 - In a program's main() function, and associated
29 usage() and help() functions, use 'progname'.
30 - In library code, or more generally any code that
31 is not near the main() function, use
32 'getprogname'.
34 2013-04-24 gettext If your project uses 'gettextize --intl' it is now
35 your responsibility to put -I$(top_builddir)/intl
36 into the Makefile.am for gnulib.
38 2012-06-27 elisp-comp The module 'elisp-comp' is removed; the script is
39 not independently useful outside of automake.
41 2012-06-21 gnulib-tool The option --with-tests is now implied by the
42 options --create-testdir, --test,
43 --create-megatestdir, --megatest.
45 2012-01-07 quotearg In the C locale, the function will no longer use
46 the grave accent character to begin a quoted
47 string (`like this'). It will use apostrophes
48 'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
49 ‘like these’. You may want to adjust any error
50 messages that hard code the quoting characters.
52 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
53 now expects the complete list of modules and other
54 options on the command line. If you want to
55 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
56 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
58 User visible incompatible changes
59 ---------------------------------
61 Date Modules Changes
63 2020-08-24 diffseq If you do not define NOTE_ORDERED to true,
64 the NOTE_DELETE and NOTE_INSERT actions might
65 not be done in order, to help cut down worst-case
66 recursion stack space from O(N) to O(log N).
68 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
69 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
70 this macro now takes an optional
71 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
73 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
74 because this macro now takes an optional
75 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
77 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
78 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
79 false.
81 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
82 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
83 mkstemp
84 mkstemps
85 mkostemp
86 mkostemps
87 tmpfile
88 stdlib-safer
89 tmpfile-safer
90 clean-temp
91 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
92 of this module.
94 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
95 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
96 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
97 removed as it is no longer necessary.
99 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
100 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
101 #include "getdate.h"
102 write
103 #include "parse-datetime.h"
104 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
106 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
107 'realloc-gnu' instead.
109 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
110 'calloc-gnu' instead.
112 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
113 'malloc-gnu' instead.
115 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
116 'fnmatch' instead.
118 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
119 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
120 #include "pipe.h"
121 write
122 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
124 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
125 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
126 provides "long options" and "options with optional
127 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
129 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
130 module 'rename' instead.
132 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
133 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
135 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
136 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
138 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
139 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
140 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
141 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
143 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
144 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
145 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
146 list of imported modules.
148 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
149 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
150 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
151 list of imported modules.
153 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
154 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
155 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
156 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
157 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
158 per POSIX and BSD.
160 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
162 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
164 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
165 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
166 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
168 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
169 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
170 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
171 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
173 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
175 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
176 takes the signal as argument.
178 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
179 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
180 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
182 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
183 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
185 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
186 now take an additional directory file descriptor
187 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
189 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
190 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
192 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
194 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
195 its include files and functions are renamed
196 accordingly.
198 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
199 on 2006-07-17.
201 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
202 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
203 not both). Now, callers should specify
204 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
205 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
207 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
208 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
209 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
211 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
213 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
214 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
215 stderr afterwards.
217 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
218 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
220 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
221 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
222 time zone and its name.
224 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
225 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
227 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
228 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
230 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
231 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
233 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
235 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
236 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
238 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
239 Programs intended to be portable to C++
240 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
242 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
243 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
244 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
246 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
247 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
248 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
249 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
251 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
253 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
254 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
255 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
256 modules now depend on time_rz.
258 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
259 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
260 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
261 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
263 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
264 detection routine, then the requirements are
265 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
266 than $LIB_ACL.
268 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
270 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
271 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
272 This changes both the ABI and the API.
273 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
274 shrink the current object; callers must now use
275 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
276 large positive) size for that.
278 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
279 were removed from public structures, and the
280 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
281 and compareseq.
283 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
284 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
285 The fdsavedir function is removed.
287 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
289 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
290 function.
292 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
293 processing is resettable. If your code uses
294 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
295 only one pass over the argument array.
297 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
298 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
300 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
301 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
302 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
303 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
305 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
306 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
307 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
309 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
310 function. If you need this function, you now need
311 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
313 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
314 function. If you need this function, you now need
315 to request the 'fstatat' module.
317 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
318 function. If you need this function, you now need
319 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
321 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
322 function. If you need this function, you now need
323 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
325 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
326 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
328 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
329 function. If you need this function, you now need
330 to request the 'fchownat' module.
332 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
333 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
335 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
336 function. If you need this function, you now need
337 to request the 'fstat' module.
339 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
341 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
342 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
344 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
345 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
346 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
347 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
348 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
350 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
351 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
352 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
353 portable to GNU/Hurd.
355 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
356 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
357 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
358 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
359 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
361 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
362 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
363 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
364 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
365 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
367 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
368 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
370 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
371 is now set to "no", not to ":".
373 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
374 to <unistd.h>.
376 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
377 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
379 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
380 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
382 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
383 default; to retain robust handling of directories
384 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
385 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
387 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
388 generalized.
390 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
391 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
392 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
394 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
395 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
396 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
397 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
398 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
399 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
400 rmdir header dosname.h.
401 savewd
402 stat
403 unlink
405 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
406 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
407 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
408 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
409 (which should have been internal to the module
410 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
411 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
412 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
413 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
414 substituted for.
416 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
417 module no longer guarantees that the following are
418 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
419 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
421 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
422 function. If you need this function, you now need
423 to request the 'iswblank' module.
425 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
427 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
428 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
430 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
431 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
433 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
434 parse-datetime module for the replacement
435 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
436 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
437 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
438 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
440 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
441 function. If you need this function, you now need
442 to request the 'waitpid' module.
444 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
445 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
446 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
447 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
449 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
450 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
451 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
452 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
454 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
455 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
456 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
457 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
458 may change again in the future once glibc provides
459 this feature as well.
461 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
463 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
464 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
465 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
467 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
468 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
470 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
471 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
473 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
474 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
476 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
477 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
478 renamed to amemxfrm.
480 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
481 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
483 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
484 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
485 --disable-cxx.
487 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
488 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
489 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
490 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
492 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
493 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
494 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
495 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
496 automatically.
498 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
499 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
500 get the functions that were previously provided.
502 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
503 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
505 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
506 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
507 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
508 instead.
510 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
511 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
512 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
513 instead.
515 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
516 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
517 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
518 instead.
520 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
521 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
522 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
524 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
525 must contain an explicit dependency on
526 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
528 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
529 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
530 effect except on very old platforms.
532 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
533 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
535 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
537 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
538 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
540 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
541 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
543 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
544 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
546 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
547 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
548 to <stdlib.h>.
550 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
551 rather than only defined to 1.
553 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
554 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
555 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
556 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
557 include <unistd.h>. For all other
558 functions provided by this module,
559 continue to include "openat.h".
561 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
562 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
563 iconv_t arguments.
565 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
566 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
568 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
569 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
570 "long options" and "options with optional
571 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
573 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
574 <stdio.h>.
576 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
577 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
578 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
579 The calling convention of the functions
580 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
582 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
583 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
584 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
585 The calling convention of the functions
586 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
588 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
589 The maint.mk file was copied from
590 coreutils, and the old
591 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
592 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
593 this will add several new checks. If some
594 new check is annoying, add the name of the
595 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
596 cfg.mk.
598 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
600 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
602 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
604 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
606 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
607 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
608 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
609 for it, like this:
610 errno = 0;
611 val = c_strtod (...);
612 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
613 xalloc_die ();
615 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
616 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
618 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
619 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
621 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
622 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
623 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
624 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
625 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
626 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
628 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
629 was removed.
631 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
632 <sys/stat.h>.
634 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
635 to <netdb.h>.
637 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
638 <math.h>.
639 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
640 <math.h>.
641 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
642 <math.h>.
644 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
645 <sys/stat.h>.
647 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
648 <dirent.h>.
650 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
651 to <unistd.h>.
653 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
654 to <unistd.h>.
656 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
657 $(LIBSOCKET).
659 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
660 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
661 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
662 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
663 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
665 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
666 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
667 socket descriptors are now compatible with
668 file descriptors. In general, this change
669 will simply improve your code's portability
670 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
671 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
672 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
673 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
674 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
675 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
677 This change does not remove the need to call
678 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
679 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
680 when you include the sys_socket module; while
681 the functionality will be restored soon, for
682 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
683 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
685 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
687 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
688 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
689 equivalent function, use function
690 xconcatenated_filename from module
691 'xconcat-filename'.
693 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
694 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
695 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
696 You may need to create a symbolic link for
697 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
698 installed in $prefix/lib.
700 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
701 to <string.h>.
703 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
704 to "glthread/lock.h".
705 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
706 to "glthread/tls.h".
708 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
709 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
710 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
712 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
713 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
714 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
715 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
717 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
718 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
719 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
720 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
722 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
723 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
724 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
725 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
726 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
728 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
730 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
731 to <arpa/inet.h>.
733 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
734 to <arpa/inet.h>.
736 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
737 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
739 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
740 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
741 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
742 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
744 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
745 implementations; clients that use controlled
746 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
747 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
748 module instead for smaller code size.
750 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
751 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
752 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
753 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
754 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
756 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
757 implementations; clients that use controlled
758 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
759 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
760 module instead for smaller code size.
762 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
763 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
764 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
765 module if you need it.
767 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
768 to <unistd.h>.
770 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
771 <strings.h>.
773 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
774 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
775 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
776 module description for the applicable license.
778 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
779 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
780 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
782 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
783 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
784 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
785 areadlink_with_size.
787 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
788 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
789 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
791 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
793 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
794 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
796 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
797 error to standard error; that is now the
798 caller's responsibility. It returns an
799 error code of type enum strtol_error
800 instead of the integer option value, and stores
801 the option value via a new int * argument.
802 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
803 are now an option name and option argument
804 instead of an option argument and a type string,
805 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
807 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
809 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
810 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
812 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
813 <wchar.h>.
815 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
816 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
818 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
819 <unistd.h>.
821 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
822 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
823 renamed:
824 xallocsa -> xmalloca
826 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
827 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
828 macros were renamed:
829 allocsa -> malloca
830 freesa -> freea
832 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
833 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
834 that has a different signature.
836 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
837 #include "sigprocmask.h"
838 with
839 #include <signal.h>
841 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
842 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
843 'long double' as a type exists.
845 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
846 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
847 des Renamed to crypto/des.
848 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
849 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
850 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
851 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
852 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
853 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
854 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
855 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
856 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
857 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
858 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
859 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
860 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
861 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
862 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
863 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
864 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
865 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
866 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
867 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
869 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
870 #include "vasprintf.h"
871 with
872 #include <stdio.h>
874 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
875 <search.h>.
877 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
878 to "unistr.h".
879 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
880 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
881 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
882 to "unistr.h".
883 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
884 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
885 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
886 to "unistr.h".
887 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
888 to "unistr.h".
890 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
891 iconv_string -> str_iconv
892 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
893 arguments)
895 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
896 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
897 carray-list You can pass NULL.
898 linked-list
899 linkedhash-list
900 avltree-list
901 rbtree-list
902 avltreehash-list
903 rbtreehash-list
905 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
906 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
907 avltree-oset
908 rbtree-oset
910 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
911 gc-des renamed:
913 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
914 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
915 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
916 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
917 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
918 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
919 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
920 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
921 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
922 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
923 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
925 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
926 using the "des" module directly.
928 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
929 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
930 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
932 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
933 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
934 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
935 #include "mkstemp.h"
936 with
937 #include <stdlib.h>
939 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
940 #include "strdup.h"
941 with
942 #include <string.h>
944 # This is for Emacs.
945 # Local Variables:
946 # coding: utf-8
947 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
948 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
949 # End: