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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 2020-12-23 execute These functions no longer execute scripts without
64 spawn-pipe '#!' marker through /bin/sh. To execute such a
65 posix_spawn script as a shell script, either add a '#!/bin/sh'
66 posix_spawnp marker in the first line, or specify "/bin/sh" as
67 the program to execute and the script as its first
68 argument.
70 2020-12-18 free This module, obsoleted in 2008, is gone.
72 2020-12-14 findprog-in The function 'find_in_given_path' now takes a 3rd
73 argument 'const char *directory'. To maintain the
74 previous behaviour, insert NULL as additional 3rd
75 argument.
77 2020-12-11 sh-quote The argv argument of the 'shell_quote_argv' function
78 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
79 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
80 when constructing this argument.
81 execute The prog_argv argument of the 'execute' function
82 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
83 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
84 when constructing this argument.
85 spawn-pipe The prog_argv argument of the functions
86 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
87 'create_pipe_bidi' is now of type
88 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
89 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
90 argument.
91 pipe-filter-gi The prog_argv argument of the
92 'pipe_filter_gi_create' function is now of type
93 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
94 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
95 argument.
96 pipe-filter-ii The prog_argv argument of the
97 'pipe_filter_ii_execute' function is now of type
98 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
99 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
100 argument.
101 javaexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
102 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
103 the signature of all your implementations of this
104 type.
105 csharpexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
106 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
107 the signature of all your implementations of this
108 type.
110 2020-12-02 spawn-pipe The functions 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
111 'create_pipe_bidi' now take a 4th argument
112 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
113 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
115 2020-12-02 execute The function 'execute' now takes a 4th argument
116 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
117 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
119 2020-10-16 hash This module deprecates the 'hash_delete' function
120 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
121 named 'hash_remove' equivalent.
123 2020-08-24 diffseq If you do not define NOTE_ORDERED to true,
124 the NOTE_DELETE and NOTE_INSERT actions might
125 not be done in order, to help cut down worst-case
126 recursion stack space from O(N) to O(log N).
128 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
129 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
130 this macro now takes an optional
131 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
133 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
134 because this macro now takes an optional
135 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
137 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
138 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
139 false.
141 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
142 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
143 mkstemp
144 mkstemps
145 mkostemp
146 mkostemps
147 tmpfile
148 stdlib-safer
149 tmpfile-safer
150 clean-temp
151 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
152 of this module.
154 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
155 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
156 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
157 removed as it is no longer necessary.
159 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
160 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
161 #include "getdate.h"
162 write
163 #include "parse-datetime.h"
164 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
166 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
167 'realloc-gnu' instead.
169 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
170 'calloc-gnu' instead.
172 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
173 'malloc-gnu' instead.
175 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
176 'fnmatch' instead.
178 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
179 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
180 #include "pipe.h"
181 write
182 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
184 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
185 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
186 provides "long options" and "options with optional
187 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
189 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
190 module 'rename' instead.
192 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
193 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
195 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
196 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
198 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
199 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
200 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
201 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
203 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
204 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
205 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
206 list of imported modules.
208 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
209 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
210 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
211 list of imported modules.
213 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
214 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
215 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
216 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
217 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
218 per POSIX and BSD.
220 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
222 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
224 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
225 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
226 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
228 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
229 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
230 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
231 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
233 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
235 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
236 takes the signal as argument.
238 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
239 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
240 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
242 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
243 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
245 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
246 now take an additional directory file descriptor
247 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
249 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
250 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
252 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
254 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
255 its include files and functions are renamed
256 accordingly.
258 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
259 on 2006-07-17.
261 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
262 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
263 not both). Now, callers should specify
264 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
265 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
267 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
268 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
269 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
271 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
273 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
274 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
275 stderr afterwards.
277 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
278 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
280 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
281 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
282 time zone and its name.
284 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
285 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
287 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
288 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
290 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
291 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
293 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
295 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
296 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
298 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
299 Programs intended to be portable to C++
300 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
302 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
303 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
304 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
306 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
307 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
308 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
309 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
311 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
313 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
314 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
315 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
316 modules now depend on time_rz.
318 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
319 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
320 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
321 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
323 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
324 detection routine, then the requirements are
325 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
326 than $LIB_ACL.
328 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
330 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
331 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
332 This changes both the ABI and the API.
333 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
334 shrink the current object; callers must now use
335 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
336 large positive) size for that.
338 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
339 were removed from public structures, and the
340 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
341 and compareseq.
343 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
344 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
345 The fdsavedir function is removed.
347 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
349 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
350 function.
352 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
353 processing is resettable. If your code uses
354 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
355 only one pass over the argument array.
357 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
358 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
360 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
361 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
362 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
363 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
365 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
366 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
367 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
369 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
370 function. If you need this function, you now need
371 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
373 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
374 function. If you need this function, you now need
375 to request the 'fstatat' module.
377 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
378 function. If you need this function, you now need
379 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
381 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
382 function. If you need this function, you now need
383 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
385 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
386 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
388 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
389 function. If you need this function, you now need
390 to request the 'fchownat' module.
392 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
393 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
395 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
396 function. If you need this function, you now need
397 to request the 'fstat' module.
399 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
401 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
402 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
404 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
405 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
406 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
407 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
408 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
410 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
411 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
412 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
413 portable to GNU/Hurd.
415 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
416 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
417 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
418 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
419 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
421 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
422 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
423 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
424 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
425 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
427 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
428 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
430 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
431 is now set to "no", not to ":".
433 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
434 to <unistd.h>.
436 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
437 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
439 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
440 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
442 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
443 default; to retain robust handling of directories
444 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
445 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
447 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
448 generalized.
450 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
451 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
452 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
454 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
455 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
456 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
457 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
458 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
459 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
460 rmdir header dosname.h.
461 savewd
462 stat
463 unlink
465 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
466 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
467 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
468 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
469 (which should have been internal to the module
470 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
471 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
472 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
473 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
474 substituted for.
476 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
477 module no longer guarantees that the following are
478 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
479 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
481 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
482 function. If you need this function, you now need
483 to request the 'iswblank' module.
485 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
487 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
488 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
490 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
491 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
493 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
494 parse-datetime module for the replacement
495 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
496 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
497 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
498 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
500 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
501 function. If you need this function, you now need
502 to request the 'waitpid' module.
504 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
505 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
506 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
507 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
509 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
510 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
511 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
512 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
514 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
515 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
516 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
517 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
518 may change again in the future once glibc provides
519 this feature as well.
521 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
523 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
524 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
525 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
527 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
528 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
530 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
531 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
533 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
534 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
536 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
537 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
538 renamed to amemxfrm.
540 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
541 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
543 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
544 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
545 --disable-cxx.
547 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
548 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
549 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
550 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
552 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
553 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
554 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
555 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
556 automatically.
558 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
559 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
560 get the functions that were previously provided.
562 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
563 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
565 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
566 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
567 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
568 instead.
570 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
571 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
572 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
573 instead.
575 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
576 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
577 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
578 instead.
580 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
581 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
582 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
584 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
585 must contain an explicit dependency on
586 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
588 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
589 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
590 effect except on very old platforms.
592 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
593 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
595 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
597 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
598 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
600 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
601 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
603 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
604 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
606 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
607 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
608 to <stdlib.h>.
610 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
611 rather than only defined to 1.
613 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
614 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
615 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
616 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
617 include <unistd.h>. For all other
618 functions provided by this module,
619 continue to include "openat.h".
621 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
622 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
623 iconv_t arguments.
625 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
626 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
628 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
629 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
630 "long options" and "options with optional
631 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
633 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
634 <stdio.h>.
636 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
637 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
638 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
639 The calling convention of the functions
640 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
642 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
643 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
644 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
645 The calling convention of the functions
646 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
648 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
649 The maint.mk file was copied from
650 coreutils, and the old
651 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
652 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
653 this will add several new checks. If some
654 new check is annoying, add the name of the
655 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
656 cfg.mk.
658 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
660 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
662 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
664 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
666 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
667 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
668 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
669 for it, like this:
670 errno = 0;
671 val = c_strtod (...);
672 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
673 xalloc_die ();
675 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
676 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
678 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
679 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
681 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
682 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
683 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
684 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
685 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
686 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
688 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
689 was removed.
691 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
692 <sys/stat.h>.
694 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
695 to <netdb.h>.
697 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
698 <math.h>.
699 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
700 <math.h>.
701 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
702 <math.h>.
704 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
705 <sys/stat.h>.
707 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
708 <dirent.h>.
710 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
711 to <unistd.h>.
713 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
714 to <unistd.h>.
716 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
717 $(LIBSOCKET).
719 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
720 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
721 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
722 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
723 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
725 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
726 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
727 socket descriptors are now compatible with
728 file descriptors. In general, this change
729 will simply improve your code's portability
730 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
731 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
732 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
733 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
734 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
735 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
737 This change does not remove the need to call
738 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
739 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
740 when you include the sys_socket module; while
741 the functionality will be restored soon, for
742 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
743 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
745 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
747 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
748 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
749 equivalent function, use function
750 xconcatenated_filename from module
751 'xconcat-filename'.
753 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
754 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
755 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
756 You may need to create a symbolic link for
757 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
758 installed in $prefix/lib.
760 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
761 to <string.h>.
763 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
764 to "glthread/lock.h".
765 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
766 to "glthread/tls.h".
768 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
769 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
770 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
772 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
773 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
774 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
775 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
777 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
778 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
779 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
780 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
782 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
783 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
784 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
785 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
786 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
788 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
790 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
791 to <arpa/inet.h>.
793 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
794 to <arpa/inet.h>.
796 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
797 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
799 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
800 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
801 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
802 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
804 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
805 implementations; clients that use controlled
806 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
807 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
808 module instead for smaller code size.
810 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
811 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
812 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
813 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
814 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
816 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
817 implementations; clients that use controlled
818 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
819 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
820 module instead for smaller code size.
822 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
823 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
824 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
825 module if you need it.
827 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
828 to <unistd.h>.
830 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
831 <strings.h>.
833 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
834 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
835 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
836 module description for the applicable license.
838 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
839 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
840 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
842 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
843 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
844 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
845 areadlink_with_size.
847 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
848 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
849 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
851 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
853 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
854 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
856 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
857 error to standard error; that is now the
858 caller's responsibility. It returns an
859 error code of type enum strtol_error
860 instead of the integer option value, and stores
861 the option value via a new int * argument.
862 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
863 are now an option name and option argument
864 instead of an option argument and a type string,
865 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
867 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
869 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
870 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
872 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
873 <wchar.h>.
875 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
876 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
878 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
879 <unistd.h>.
881 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
882 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
883 renamed:
884 xallocsa -> xmalloca
886 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
887 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
888 macros were renamed:
889 allocsa -> malloca
890 freesa -> freea
892 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
893 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
894 that has a different signature.
896 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
897 #include "sigprocmask.h"
898 with
899 #include <signal.h>
901 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
902 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
903 'long double' as a type exists.
905 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
906 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
907 des Renamed to crypto/des.
908 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
909 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
910 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
911 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
912 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
913 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
914 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
915 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
916 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
917 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
918 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
919 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
920 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
921 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
922 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
923 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
924 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
925 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
926 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
927 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
929 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
930 #include "vasprintf.h"
931 with
932 #include <stdio.h>
934 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
935 <search.h>.
937 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
938 to "unistr.h".
939 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
940 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
941 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
942 to "unistr.h".
943 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
944 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
945 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
946 to "unistr.h".
947 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
948 to "unistr.h".
950 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
951 iconv_string -> str_iconv
952 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
953 arguments)
955 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
956 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
957 carray-list You can pass NULL.
958 linked-list
959 linkedhash-list
960 avltree-list
961 rbtree-list
962 avltreehash-list
963 rbtreehash-list
965 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
966 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
967 avltree-oset
968 rbtree-oset
970 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
971 gc-des renamed:
973 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
974 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
975 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
976 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
977 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
978 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
979 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
980 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
981 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
982 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
983 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
985 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
986 using the "des" module directly.
988 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
989 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
990 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
992 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
993 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
994 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
995 #include "mkstemp.h"
996 with
997 #include <stdlib.h>
999 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
1000 #include "strdup.h"
1001 with
1002 #include <string.h>
1004 # This is for Emacs.
1005 # Local Variables:
1006 # coding: utf-8
1007 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
1008 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
1009 # End: