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1 Important general notes
2 -----------------------
4 Date Modules Changes
6 2020-08-16 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.64 are required.
8 2019-12-11 Support for These modules are now supported in C++ mode as well.
9 ISO C or POSIX This means, while the autoconfiguration uses the C
10 functions compiler, the resulting header files and function
11 substitutes can be used with a matching C++ compiler
12 as well.
14 2019-02-14 gnulib-tool If you use multiple --local-dir options at once:
15 The first one now has the highest priority, not the
16 last one.
18 2019-01-04 (all) The meaning of the 'Link' section in the module
19 descriptions has been clarified: It overrides the
20 combined 'Link' sections from the dependencies.
22 2018-10-22 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.63 are required.
24 2016-09-05 progname There is now an alternate module 'getprogname'. It
25 defines a getprogname() function; use it to obtain
26 the name of the current program.
27 Recommended use:
28 - In a program's main() function, and associated
29 usage() and help() functions, use 'progname'.
30 - In library code, or more generally any code that
31 is not near the main() function, use
32 'getprogname'.
34 2013-04-24 gettext If your project uses 'gettextize --intl' it is now
35 your responsibility to put -I$(top_builddir)/intl
36 into the Makefile.am for gnulib.
38 2012-06-27 elisp-comp The module 'elisp-comp' is removed; the script is
39 not independently useful outside of automake.
41 2012-06-21 gnulib-tool The option --with-tests is now implied by the
42 options --create-testdir, --test,
43 --create-megatestdir, --megatest.
45 2012-01-07 quotearg In the C locale, the function will no longer use
46 the grave accent character to begin a quoted
47 string (`like this'). It will use apostrophes
48 'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
49 ‘like these’. You may want to adjust any error
50 messages that hard code the quoting characters.
52 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
53 now expects the complete list of modules and other
54 options on the command line. If you want to
55 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
56 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
58 User visible incompatible changes
59 ---------------------------------
61 Date Modules Changes
63 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
64 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
65 this macro now takes an optional
66 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
68 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
69 because this macro now takes an optional
70 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
72 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
73 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
74 false.
76 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
77 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
78 mkstemp
79 mkstemps
80 mkostemp
81 mkostemps
82 tmpfile
83 stdlib-safer
84 tmpfile-safer
85 clean-temp
86 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
87 of this module.
89 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
90 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
91 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
92 removed as it is no longer necessary.
94 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
95 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
96 #include "getdate.h"
97 write
98 #include "parse-datetime.h"
99 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
101 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
102 'realloc-gnu' instead.
104 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
105 'calloc-gnu' instead.
107 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
108 'malloc-gnu' instead.
110 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
111 'fnmatch' instead.
113 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
114 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
115 #include "pipe.h"
116 write
117 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
119 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
120 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
121 provides "long options" and "options with optional
122 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
124 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
125 module 'rename' instead.
127 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
128 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
130 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
131 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
133 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
134 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
135 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
136 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
138 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
139 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
140 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
141 list of imported modules.
143 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
144 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
145 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
146 list of imported modules.
148 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
149 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
150 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
151 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
152 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
153 per POSIX and BSD.
155 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
157 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
159 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
160 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
161 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
163 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
164 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
165 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
166 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
168 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
170 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
171 takes the signal as argument.
173 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
174 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
175 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
177 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
178 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
180 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
181 now take an additional directory file descriptor
182 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
184 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
185 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
187 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
189 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
190 its include files and functions are renamed
191 accordingly.
193 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
194 on 2006-07-17.
196 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
197 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
198 not both). Now, callers should specify
199 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
200 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
202 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
203 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
204 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
206 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
208 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
209 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
210 stderr afterwards.
212 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
213 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
215 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
216 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
217 time zone and its name.
219 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
220 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
222 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
223 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
225 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
226 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
228 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
230 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
231 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
233 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
234 Programs intended to be portable to C++
235 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
237 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
238 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
239 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
241 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
242 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
243 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
244 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
246 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
248 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
249 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
250 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
251 modules now depend on time_rz.
253 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
254 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
255 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
256 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
258 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
259 detection routine, then the requirements are
260 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
261 than $LIB_ACL.
263 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
265 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
266 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
267 This changes both the ABI and the API.
268 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
269 shrink the current object; callers must now use
270 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
271 large positive) size for that.
273 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
274 were removed from public structures, and the
275 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
276 and compareseq.
278 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
279 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
280 The fdsavedir function is removed.
282 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
284 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
285 function.
287 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
288 processing is resettable. If your code uses
289 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
290 only one pass over the argument array.
292 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
293 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
295 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
296 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
297 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
298 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
300 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
301 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
302 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
304 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
305 function. If you need this function, you now need
306 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
308 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
309 function. If you need this function, you now need
310 to request the 'fstatat' module.
312 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
313 function. If you need this function, you now need
314 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
316 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
317 function. If you need this function, you now need
318 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
320 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
321 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
323 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
324 function. If you need this function, you now need
325 to request the 'fchownat' module.
327 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
328 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
330 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
331 function. If you need this function, you now need
332 to request the 'fstat' module.
334 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
336 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
337 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
339 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
340 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
341 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
342 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
343 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
345 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
346 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
347 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
348 portable to GNU/Hurd.
350 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
351 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
352 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
353 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
354 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
356 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
357 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
358 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
359 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
360 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
362 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
363 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
365 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
366 is now set to "no", not to ":".
368 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
369 to <unistd.h>.
371 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
372 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
374 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
375 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
377 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
378 default; to retain robust handling of directories
379 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
380 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
382 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
383 generalized.
385 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
386 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
387 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
389 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
390 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
391 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
392 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
393 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
394 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
395 rmdir header dosname.h.
396 savewd
397 stat
398 unlink
400 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
401 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
402 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
403 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
404 (which should have been internal to the module
405 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
406 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
407 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
408 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
409 substituted for.
411 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
412 module no longer guarantees that the following are
413 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
414 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
416 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
417 function. If you need this function, you now need
418 to request the 'iswblank' module.
420 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
422 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
423 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
425 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
426 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
428 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
429 parse-datetime module for the replacement
430 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
431 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
432 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
433 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
435 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
436 function. If you need this function, you now need
437 to request the 'waitpid' module.
439 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
440 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
441 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
442 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
444 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
445 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
446 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
447 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
449 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
450 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
451 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
452 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
453 may change again in the future once glibc provides
454 this feature as well.
456 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
458 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
459 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
460 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
462 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
463 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
465 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
466 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
468 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
469 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
471 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
472 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
473 renamed to amemxfrm.
475 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
476 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
478 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
479 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
480 --disable-cxx.
482 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
483 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
484 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
485 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
487 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
488 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
489 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
490 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
491 automatically.
493 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
494 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
495 get the functions that were previously provided.
497 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
498 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
500 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
501 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
502 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
503 instead.
505 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
506 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
507 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
508 instead.
510 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
511 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
512 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
513 instead.
515 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
516 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
517 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
519 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
520 must contain an explicit dependency on
521 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
523 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
524 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
525 effect except on very old platforms.
527 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
528 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
530 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
532 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
533 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
535 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
536 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
538 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
539 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
541 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
542 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
543 to <stdlib.h>.
545 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
546 rather than only defined to 1.
548 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
549 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
550 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
551 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
552 include <unistd.h>. For all other
553 functions provided by this module,
554 continue to include "openat.h".
556 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
557 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
558 iconv_t arguments.
560 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
561 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
563 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
564 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
565 "long options" and "options with optional
566 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
568 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
569 <stdio.h>.
571 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
572 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
573 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
574 The calling convention of the functions
575 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
577 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
578 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
579 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
580 The calling convention of the functions
581 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
583 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
584 The maint.mk file was copied from
585 coreutils, and the old
586 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
587 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
588 this will add several new checks. If some
589 new check is annoying, add the name of the
590 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
591 cfg.mk.
593 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
595 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
597 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
599 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
601 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
602 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
603 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
604 for it, like this:
605 errno = 0;
606 val = c_strtod (...);
607 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
608 xalloc_die ();
610 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
611 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
613 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
614 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
616 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
617 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
618 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
619 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
620 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
621 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
623 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
624 was removed.
626 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
627 <sys/stat.h>.
629 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
630 to <netdb.h>.
632 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
633 <math.h>.
634 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
635 <math.h>.
636 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
637 <math.h>.
639 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
640 <sys/stat.h>.
642 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
643 <dirent.h>.
645 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
646 to <unistd.h>.
648 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
649 to <unistd.h>.
651 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
652 $(LIBSOCKET).
654 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
655 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
656 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
657 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
658 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
660 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
661 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
662 socket descriptors are now compatible with
663 file descriptors. In general, this change
664 will simply improve your code's portability
665 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
666 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
667 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
668 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
669 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
670 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
672 This change does not remove the need to call
673 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
674 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
675 when you include the sys_socket module; while
676 the functionality will be restored soon, for
677 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
678 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
680 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
682 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
683 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
684 equivalent function, use function
685 xconcatenated_filename from module
686 'xconcat-filename'.
688 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
689 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
690 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
691 You may need to create a symbolic link for
692 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
693 installed in $prefix/lib.
695 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
696 to <string.h>.
698 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
699 to "glthread/lock.h".
700 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
701 to "glthread/tls.h".
703 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
704 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
705 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
707 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
708 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
709 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
710 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
712 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
713 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
714 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
715 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
717 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
718 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
719 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
720 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
721 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
723 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
725 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
726 to <arpa/inet.h>.
728 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
729 to <arpa/inet.h>.
731 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
732 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
734 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
735 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
736 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
737 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
739 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
740 implementations; clients that use controlled
741 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
742 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
743 module instead for smaller code size.
745 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
746 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
747 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
748 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
749 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
751 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
752 implementations; clients that use controlled
753 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
754 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
755 module instead for smaller code size.
757 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
758 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
759 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
760 module if you need it.
762 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
763 to <unistd.h>.
765 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
766 <strings.h>.
768 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
769 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
770 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
771 module description for the applicable license.
773 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
774 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
775 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
777 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
778 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
779 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
780 areadlink_with_size.
782 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
783 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
784 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
786 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
788 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
789 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
791 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
792 error to standard error; that is now the
793 caller's responsibility. It returns an
794 error code of type enum strtol_error
795 instead of the integer option value, and stores
796 the option value via a new int * argument.
797 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
798 are now an option name and option argument
799 instead of an option argument and a type string,
800 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
802 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
804 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
805 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
807 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
808 <wchar.h>.
810 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
811 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
813 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
814 <unistd.h>.
816 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
817 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
818 renamed:
819 xallocsa -> xmalloca
821 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
822 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
823 macros were renamed:
824 allocsa -> malloca
825 freesa -> freea
827 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
828 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
829 that has a different signature.
831 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
832 #include "sigprocmask.h"
833 with
834 #include <signal.h>
836 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
837 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
838 'long double' as a type exists.
840 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
841 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
842 des Renamed to crypto/des.
843 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
844 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
845 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
846 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
847 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
848 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
849 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
850 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
851 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
852 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
853 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
854 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
855 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
856 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
857 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
858 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
859 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
860 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
861 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
862 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
864 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
865 #include "vasprintf.h"
866 with
867 #include <stdio.h>
869 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
870 <search.h>.
872 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
873 to "unistr.h".
874 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
875 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
876 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
877 to "unistr.h".
878 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
879 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
880 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
881 to "unistr.h".
882 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
883 to "unistr.h".
885 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
886 iconv_string -> str_iconv
887 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
888 arguments)
890 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
891 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
892 carray-list You can pass NULL.
893 linked-list
894 linkedhash-list
895 avltree-list
896 rbtree-list
897 avltreehash-list
898 rbtreehash-list
900 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
901 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
902 avltree-oset
903 rbtree-oset
905 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
906 gc-des renamed:
908 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
909 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
910 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
911 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
912 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
913 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
914 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
915 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
916 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
917 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
918 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
920 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
921 using the "des" module directly.
923 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
924 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
925 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
927 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
928 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
929 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
930 #include "mkstemp.h"
931 with
932 #include <stdlib.h>
934 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
935 #include "strdup.h"
936 with
937 #include <string.h>
939 # This is for Emacs.
940 # Local Variables:
941 # coding: utf-8
942 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
943 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
944 # End: