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1 Important general notes
2 -----------------------
4 Date Modules Changes
6 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
7 takes the signal as argument.
9 2019-02-14 gnulib-tool If you use multiple --local-dir options at once:
10 The first one now has the highest priority, not the
11 last one.
13 2019-01-04 (all) The meaning of the 'Link' section in the module
14 descriptions has been clarified: It overrides the
15 combined 'Link' sections from the dependencies.
17 2018-10-22 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.63 are required.
19 2016-09-05 progname There is now an alternate module 'getprogname'. It
20 defines a getprogname() function; use it to obtain
21 the name of the current program.
22 Recommended use:
23 - In a program's main() function, and associated
24 usage() and help() functions, use 'progname'.
25 - In library code, or more generally any code that
26 is not near the main() function, use
27 'getprogname'.
29 2013-04-24 gettext If your project uses 'gettextize --intl' it is now
30 your responsibility to put -I$(top_builddir)/intl
31 into the Makefile.am for gnulib.
33 2012-06-27 elisp-comp The module 'elisp-comp' is removed; the script is
34 not independently useful outside of automake.
36 2012-06-21 gnulib-tool The option --with-tests is now implied by the
37 options --create-testdir, --test,
38 --create-megatestdir, --megatest.
40 2012-01-07 quotearg In the C locale, the function will no longer use
41 the grave accent character to begin a quoted
42 string (`like this'). It will use apostrophes
43 'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
44 ‘like these’. You may want to adjust any error
45 messages that hard code the quoting characters.
47 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
48 now expects the complete list of modules and other
49 options on the command line. If you want to
50 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
51 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
53 User visible incompatible changes
54 ---------------------------------
56 Date Modules Changes
58 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
60 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
61 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
62 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
64 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
65 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
67 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
68 now take an additional directory file descriptor
69 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
71 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
72 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
74 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
76 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
77 its include files and functions are renamed
78 accordingly.
80 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
81 on 2006-07-17.
83 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
84 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
85 not both). Now, callers should specify
86 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
87 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
89 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
90 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
91 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
93 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
95 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
96 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
97 stderr afterwards.
99 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
100 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
102 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
103 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
104 time zone and its name.
106 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
107 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
109 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
110 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
112 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
113 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
115 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
117 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
118 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
120 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
121 Programs intended to be portable to C++
122 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
124 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
125 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
126 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
128 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
129 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
130 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
131 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
133 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
135 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
136 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
137 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
138 modules now depend on time_rz.
140 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
141 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
142 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
143 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
145 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
146 detection routine, then the requirements are
147 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
148 than $LIB_ACL.
150 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
152 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
153 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
154 This changes both the ABI and the API.
155 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
156 shrink the current object; callers must now use
157 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
158 large positive) size for that.
160 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
161 were removed from public structures, and the
162 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
163 and compareseq.
165 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
166 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
167 The fdsavedir function is removed.
169 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
171 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
172 function.
174 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
175 processing is resettable. If your code uses
176 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
177 only one pass over the argument array.
179 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
180 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
182 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
183 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
184 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
185 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
187 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
188 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
189 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
191 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
192 function. If you need this function, you now need
193 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
195 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
196 function. If you need this function, you now need
197 to request the 'fstatat' module.
199 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
200 function. If you need this function, you now need
201 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
203 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
204 function. If you need this function, you now need
205 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
207 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
208 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
210 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
211 function. If you need this function, you now need
212 to request the 'fchownat' module.
214 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
215 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
217 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
218 function. If you need this function, you now need
219 to request the 'fstat' module.
221 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
223 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
224 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
226 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
227 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
228 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
229 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
230 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
232 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
233 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
234 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
235 portable to GNU/Hurd.
237 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
238 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
239 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
240 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
241 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
243 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
244 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
245 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
246 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
247 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
249 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
250 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
252 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
253 is now set to "no", not to ":".
255 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
256 to <unistd.h>.
258 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
259 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
261 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
262 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
264 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
265 default; to retain robust handling of directories
266 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
267 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
269 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
270 generalized.
272 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
273 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
274 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
276 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
277 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
278 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
279 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
280 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
281 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
282 rmdir header dosname.h.
283 savewd
284 stat
285 unlink
287 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
288 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
289 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
290 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
291 (which should have been internal to the module
292 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
293 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
294 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
295 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
296 substituted for.
298 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
299 module no longer guarantees that the following are
300 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
301 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
303 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
304 function. If you need this function, you now need
305 to request the 'iswblank' module.
307 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
309 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
310 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
312 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
313 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
315 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
316 parse-datetime module for the replacement
317 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
318 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
319 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
320 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
322 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
323 function. If you need this function, you now need
324 to request the 'waitpid' module.
326 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
327 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
328 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
329 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
331 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
332 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
333 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
334 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
336 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
337 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
338 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
339 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
340 may change again in the future once glibc provides
341 this feature as well.
343 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
345 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
346 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
347 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
349 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
350 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
352 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
353 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
355 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
356 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
358 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
359 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
360 renamed to amemxfrm.
362 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
363 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
365 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
366 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
367 --disable-cxx.
369 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
370 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
371 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
372 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
374 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
375 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
376 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
377 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
378 automatically.
380 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
381 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
382 get the functions that were previously provided.
384 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
385 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
387 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
388 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
389 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
390 instead.
392 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
393 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
394 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
395 instead.
397 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
398 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
399 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
400 instead.
402 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
403 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
404 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
406 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
407 must contain an explicit dependency on
408 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
410 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
411 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
412 effect except on very old platforms.
414 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
415 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
417 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
419 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
420 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
422 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
423 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
425 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
426 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
428 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
429 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
430 to <stdlib.h>.
432 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
433 rather than only defined to 1.
435 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
436 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
437 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
438 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
439 include <unistd.h>. For all other
440 functions provided by this module,
441 continue to include "openat.h".
443 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
444 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
445 iconv_t arguments.
447 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
448 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
450 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
451 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
452 "long options" and "options with optional
453 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
455 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
456 <stdio.h>.
458 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
459 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
460 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
461 The calling convention of the functions
462 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
464 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
465 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
466 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
467 The calling convention of the functions
468 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
470 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
471 The maint.mk file was copied from
472 coreutils, and the old
473 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
474 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
475 this will add several new checks. If some
476 new check is annoying, add the name of the
477 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
478 cfg.mk.
480 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
482 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
484 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
486 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
488 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
489 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
490 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
491 for it, like this:
492 errno = 0;
493 val = c_strtod (...);
494 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
495 xalloc_die ();
497 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
498 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
500 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
501 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
503 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
504 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
505 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
506 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
507 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
508 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
510 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
511 was removed.
513 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
514 <sys/stat.h>.
516 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
517 to <netdb.h>.
519 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
520 <math.h>.
521 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
522 <math.h>.
523 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
524 <math.h>.
526 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
527 <sys/stat.h>.
529 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
530 <dirent.h>.
532 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
533 to <unistd.h>.
535 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
536 to <unistd.h>.
538 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
539 $(LIBSOCKET).
541 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
542 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
543 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
544 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
545 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
547 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
548 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
549 socket descriptors are now compatible with
550 file descriptors. In general, this change
551 will simply improve your code's portability
552 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
553 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
554 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
555 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
556 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
557 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
559 This change does not remove the need to call
560 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
561 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
562 when you include the sys_socket module; while
563 the functionality will be restored soon, for
564 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
565 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
567 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
569 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
570 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
571 equivalent function, use function
572 xconcatenated_filename from module
573 'xconcat-filename'.
575 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
576 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
577 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
578 You may need to create a symbolic link for
579 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
580 installed in $prefix/lib.
582 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
583 to <string.h>.
585 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
586 to "glthread/lock.h".
587 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
588 to "glthread/tls.h".
590 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
591 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
592 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
594 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
595 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
596 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
597 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
599 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
600 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
601 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
602 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
604 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
605 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
606 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
607 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
608 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
610 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
612 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
613 to <arpa/inet.h>.
615 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
616 to <arpa/inet.h>.
618 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
619 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
621 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
622 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
623 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
624 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
626 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
627 implementations; clients that use controlled
628 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
629 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
630 module instead for smaller code size.
632 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
633 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
634 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
635 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
636 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
638 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
639 implementations; clients that use controlled
640 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
641 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
642 module instead for smaller code size.
644 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
645 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
646 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
647 module if you need it.
649 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
650 to <unistd.h>.
652 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
653 <strings.h>.
655 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
656 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
657 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
658 module description for the applicable license.
660 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
661 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
662 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
664 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
665 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
666 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
667 areadlink_with_size.
669 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
670 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
671 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
673 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
675 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
676 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
678 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
679 error to standard error; that is now the
680 caller's responsibility. It returns an
681 error code of type enum strtol_error
682 instead of the integer option value, and stores
683 the option value via a new int * argument.
684 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
685 are now an option name and option argument
686 instead of an option argument and a type string,
687 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
689 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
691 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
692 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
694 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
695 <wchar.h>.
697 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
698 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
700 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
701 <unistd.h>.
703 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
704 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
705 renamed:
706 xallocsa -> xmalloca
708 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
709 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
710 macros were renamed:
711 allocsa -> malloca
712 freesa -> freea
714 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
715 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
716 that has a different signature.
718 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
719 #include "sigprocmask.h"
720 with
721 #include <signal.h>
723 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
724 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
725 'long double' as a type exists.
727 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
728 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
729 des Renamed to crypto/des.
730 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
731 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
732 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
733 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
734 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
735 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
736 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
737 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
738 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
739 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
740 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
741 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
742 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
743 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
744 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
745 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
746 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
747 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
748 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
749 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
751 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
752 #include "vasprintf.h"
753 with
754 #include <stdio.h>
756 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
757 <search.h>.
759 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
760 to "unistr.h".
761 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
762 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
763 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
764 to "unistr.h".
765 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
766 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
767 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
768 to "unistr.h".
769 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
770 to "unistr.h".
772 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
773 iconv_string -> str_iconv
774 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
775 arguments)
777 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
778 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
779 carray-list You can pass NULL.
780 linked-list
781 linkedhash-list
782 avltree-list
783 rbtree-list
784 avltreehash-list
785 rbtreehash-list
787 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
788 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
789 avltree-oset
790 rbtree-oset
792 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
793 gc-des renamed:
795 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
796 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
797 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
798 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
799 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
800 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
801 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
802 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
803 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
804 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
805 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
807 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
808 using the "des" module directly.
810 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
811 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
812 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
814 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
815 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
816 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
817 #include "mkstemp.h"
818 with
819 #include <stdlib.h>
821 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
822 #include "strdup.h"
823 with
824 #include <string.h>
826 # This is for Emacs.
827 # Local Variables:
828 # coding: utf-8
829 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
830 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
831 # End: