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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 2020-12-11 sh-quote The argv argument of the 'shell_quote_argv' function
64 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
65 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
66 when constructing this argument.
67 execute The prog_argv argument of the 'execute' function
68 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
69 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
70 when constructing this argument.
71 spawn-pipe The prog_argv argument of the functions
72 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
73 'create_pipe_bidi' is now of type
74 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
75 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
76 argument.
77 pipe-filter-gi The prog_argv argument of the
78 'pipe_filter_gi_create' function is now of type
79 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
80 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
81 argument.
82 pipe-filter-ii The prog_argv argument of the
83 'pipe_filter_ii_execute' function is now of type
84 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
85 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
86 argument.
87 javaexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
88 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
89 the signature of all your implementations of this
90 type.
91 csharpexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
92 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
93 the signature of all your implementations of this
94 type.
96 2020-12-02 spawn-pipe The functions 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
97 'create_pipe_bidi' now take a 4th argument
98 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
99 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
101 2020-12-02 execute The function 'execute' now takes a 4th argument
102 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
103 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
105 2020-10-16 hash This module deprecates the 'hash_delete' function
106 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
107 named 'hash_remove' equivalent.
109 2020-08-24 diffseq If you do not define NOTE_ORDERED to true,
110 the NOTE_DELETE and NOTE_INSERT actions might
111 not be done in order, to help cut down worst-case
112 recursion stack space from O(N) to O(log N).
114 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
115 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
116 this macro now takes an optional
117 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
119 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
120 because this macro now takes an optional
121 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
123 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
124 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
125 false.
127 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
128 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
129 mkstemp
130 mkstemps
131 mkostemp
132 mkostemps
133 tmpfile
134 stdlib-safer
135 tmpfile-safer
136 clean-temp
137 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
138 of this module.
140 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
141 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
142 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
143 removed as it is no longer necessary.
145 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
146 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
147 #include "getdate.h"
148 write
149 #include "parse-datetime.h"
150 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
152 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
153 'realloc-gnu' instead.
155 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
156 'calloc-gnu' instead.
158 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
159 'malloc-gnu' instead.
161 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
162 'fnmatch' instead.
164 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
165 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
166 #include "pipe.h"
167 write
168 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
170 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
171 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
172 provides "long options" and "options with optional
173 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
175 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
176 module 'rename' instead.
178 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
179 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
181 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
182 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
184 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
185 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
186 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
187 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
189 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
190 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
191 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
192 list of imported modules.
194 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
195 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
196 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
197 list of imported modules.
199 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
200 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
201 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
202 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
203 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
204 per POSIX and BSD.
206 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
208 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
210 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
211 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
212 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
214 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
215 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
216 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
217 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
219 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
221 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
222 takes the signal as argument.
224 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
225 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
226 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
228 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
229 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
231 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
232 now take an additional directory file descriptor
233 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
235 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
236 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
238 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
240 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
241 its include files and functions are renamed
242 accordingly.
244 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
245 on 2006-07-17.
247 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
248 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
249 not both). Now, callers should specify
250 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
251 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
253 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
254 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
255 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
257 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
259 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
260 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
261 stderr afterwards.
263 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
264 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
266 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
267 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
268 time zone and its name.
270 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
271 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
273 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
274 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
276 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
277 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
279 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
281 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
282 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
284 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
285 Programs intended to be portable to C++
286 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
288 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
289 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
290 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
292 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
293 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
294 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
295 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
297 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
299 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
300 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
301 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
302 modules now depend on time_rz.
304 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
305 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
306 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
307 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
309 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
310 detection routine, then the requirements are
311 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
312 than $LIB_ACL.
314 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
316 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
317 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
318 This changes both the ABI and the API.
319 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
320 shrink the current object; callers must now use
321 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
322 large positive) size for that.
324 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
325 were removed from public structures, and the
326 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
327 and compareseq.
329 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
330 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
331 The fdsavedir function is removed.
333 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
335 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
336 function.
338 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
339 processing is resettable. If your code uses
340 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
341 only one pass over the argument array.
343 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
344 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
346 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
347 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
348 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
349 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
351 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
352 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
353 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
355 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
356 function. If you need this function, you now need
357 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
359 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
360 function. If you need this function, you now need
361 to request the 'fstatat' module.
363 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
364 function. If you need this function, you now need
365 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
367 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
368 function. If you need this function, you now need
369 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
371 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
372 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
374 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
375 function. If you need this function, you now need
376 to request the 'fchownat' module.
378 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
379 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
381 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
382 function. If you need this function, you now need
383 to request the 'fstat' module.
385 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
387 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
388 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
390 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
391 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
392 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
393 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
394 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
396 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
397 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
398 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
399 portable to GNU/Hurd.
401 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
402 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
403 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
404 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
405 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
407 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
408 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
409 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
410 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
411 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
413 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
414 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
416 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
417 is now set to "no", not to ":".
419 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
420 to <unistd.h>.
422 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
423 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
425 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
426 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
428 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
429 default; to retain robust handling of directories
430 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
431 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
433 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
434 generalized.
436 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
437 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
438 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
440 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
441 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
442 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
443 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
444 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
445 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
446 rmdir header dosname.h.
447 savewd
448 stat
449 unlink
451 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
452 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
453 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
454 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
455 (which should have been internal to the module
456 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
457 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
458 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
459 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
460 substituted for.
462 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
463 module no longer guarantees that the following are
464 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
465 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
467 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
468 function. If you need this function, you now need
469 to request the 'iswblank' module.
471 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
473 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
474 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
476 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
477 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
479 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
480 parse-datetime module for the replacement
481 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
482 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
483 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
484 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
486 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
487 function. If you need this function, you now need
488 to request the 'waitpid' module.
490 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
491 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
492 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
493 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
495 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
496 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
497 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
498 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
500 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
501 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
502 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
503 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
504 may change again in the future once glibc provides
505 this feature as well.
507 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
509 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
510 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
511 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
513 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
514 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
516 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
517 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
519 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
520 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
522 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
523 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
524 renamed to amemxfrm.
526 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
527 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
529 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
530 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
531 --disable-cxx.
533 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
534 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
535 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
536 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
538 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
539 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
540 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
541 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
542 automatically.
544 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
545 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
546 get the functions that were previously provided.
548 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
549 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
551 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
552 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
553 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
554 instead.
556 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
557 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
558 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
559 instead.
561 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
562 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
563 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
564 instead.
566 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
567 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
568 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
570 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
571 must contain an explicit dependency on
572 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
574 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
575 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
576 effect except on very old platforms.
578 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
579 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
581 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
583 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
584 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
586 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
587 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
589 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
590 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
592 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
593 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
594 to <stdlib.h>.
596 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
597 rather than only defined to 1.
599 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
600 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
601 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
602 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
603 include <unistd.h>. For all other
604 functions provided by this module,
605 continue to include "openat.h".
607 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
608 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
609 iconv_t arguments.
611 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
612 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
614 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
615 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
616 "long options" and "options with optional
617 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
619 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
620 <stdio.h>.
622 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
623 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
624 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
625 The calling convention of the functions
626 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
628 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
629 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
630 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
631 The calling convention of the functions
632 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
634 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
635 The maint.mk file was copied from
636 coreutils, and the old
637 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
638 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
639 this will add several new checks. If some
640 new check is annoying, add the name of the
641 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
642 cfg.mk.
644 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
646 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
648 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
650 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
652 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
653 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
654 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
655 for it, like this:
656 errno = 0;
657 val = c_strtod (...);
658 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
659 xalloc_die ();
661 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
662 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
664 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
665 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
667 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
668 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
669 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
670 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
671 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
672 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
674 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
675 was removed.
677 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
678 <sys/stat.h>.
680 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
681 to <netdb.h>.
683 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
684 <math.h>.
685 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
686 <math.h>.
687 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
688 <math.h>.
690 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
691 <sys/stat.h>.
693 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
694 <dirent.h>.
696 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
697 to <unistd.h>.
699 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
700 to <unistd.h>.
702 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
703 $(LIBSOCKET).
705 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
706 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
707 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
708 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
709 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
711 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
712 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
713 socket descriptors are now compatible with
714 file descriptors. In general, this change
715 will simply improve your code's portability
716 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
717 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
718 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
719 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
720 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
721 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
723 This change does not remove the need to call
724 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
725 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
726 when you include the sys_socket module; while
727 the functionality will be restored soon, for
728 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
729 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
731 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
733 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
734 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
735 equivalent function, use function
736 xconcatenated_filename from module
737 'xconcat-filename'.
739 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
740 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
741 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
742 You may need to create a symbolic link for
743 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
744 installed in $prefix/lib.
746 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
747 to <string.h>.
749 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
750 to "glthread/lock.h".
751 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
752 to "glthread/tls.h".
754 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
755 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
756 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
758 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
759 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
760 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
761 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
763 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
764 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
765 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
766 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
768 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
769 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
770 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
771 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
772 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
774 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
776 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
777 to <arpa/inet.h>.
779 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
780 to <arpa/inet.h>.
782 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
783 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
785 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
786 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
787 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
788 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
790 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
791 implementations; clients that use controlled
792 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
793 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
794 module instead for smaller code size.
796 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
797 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
798 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
799 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
800 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
802 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
803 implementations; clients that use controlled
804 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
805 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
806 module instead for smaller code size.
808 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
809 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
810 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
811 module if you need it.
813 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
814 to <unistd.h>.
816 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
817 <strings.h>.
819 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
820 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
821 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
822 module description for the applicable license.
824 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
825 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
826 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
828 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
829 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
830 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
831 areadlink_with_size.
833 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
834 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
835 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
837 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
839 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
840 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
842 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
843 error to standard error; that is now the
844 caller's responsibility. It returns an
845 error code of type enum strtol_error
846 instead of the integer option value, and stores
847 the option value via a new int * argument.
848 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
849 are now an option name and option argument
850 instead of an option argument and a type string,
851 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
853 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
855 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
856 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
858 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
859 <wchar.h>.
861 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
862 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
864 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
865 <unistd.h>.
867 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
868 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
869 renamed:
870 xallocsa -> xmalloca
872 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
873 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
874 macros were renamed:
875 allocsa -> malloca
876 freesa -> freea
878 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
879 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
880 that has a different signature.
882 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
883 #include "sigprocmask.h"
884 with
885 #include <signal.h>
887 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
888 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
889 'long double' as a type exists.
891 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
892 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
893 des Renamed to crypto/des.
894 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
895 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
896 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
897 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
898 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
899 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
900 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
901 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
902 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
903 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
904 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
905 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
906 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
907 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
908 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
909 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
910 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
911 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
912 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
913 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
915 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
916 #include "vasprintf.h"
917 with
918 #include <stdio.h>
920 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
921 <search.h>.
923 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
924 to "unistr.h".
925 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
926 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
927 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
928 to "unistr.h".
929 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
930 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
931 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
932 to "unistr.h".
933 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
934 to "unistr.h".
936 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
937 iconv_string -> str_iconv
938 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
939 arguments)
941 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
942 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
943 carray-list You can pass NULL.
944 linked-list
945 linkedhash-list
946 avltree-list
947 rbtree-list
948 avltreehash-list
949 rbtreehash-list
951 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
952 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
953 avltree-oset
954 rbtree-oset
956 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
957 gc-des renamed:
959 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
960 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
961 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
962 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
963 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
964 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
965 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
966 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
967 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
968 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
969 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
971 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
972 using the "des" module directly.
974 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
975 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
976 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
978 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
979 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
980 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
981 #include "mkstemp.h"
982 with
983 #include <stdlib.h>
985 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
986 #include "strdup.h"
987 with
988 #include <string.h>
990 # This is for Emacs.
991 # Local Variables:
992 # coding: utf-8
993 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
994 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
995 # End: