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1 Important notes
2 ---------------
4 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
5 now expects the complete list of modules and other
6 options on the command line. If you want to
7 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
8 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
10 User visible incompatible changes
11 ---------------------------------
13 Date Modules Changes
15 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
16 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
18 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
19 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
21 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
22 parse-datetime module for the replacement
23 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
24 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
25 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
26 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
28 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
29 function. If you need this function, you now need
30 to request the 'waitpid' module.
32 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
33 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
34 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
35 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
37 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
38 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
39 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
40 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
42 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
43 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
44 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
45 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
46 may change again in the future once glibc provides
47 this feature as well.
49 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
51 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
52 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
53 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
55 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
56 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
58 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
59 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
61 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
62 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
64 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
65 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
66 renamed to amemxfrm.
68 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
69 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
71 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
72 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
73 --disable-cxx.
75 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
76 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
77 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
78 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
80 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
81 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
82 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
83 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
84 automatically.
86 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
87 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
88 get the functions that were previously provided.
90 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
91 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
93 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
94 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
95 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
96 instead.
98 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
99 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
100 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
101 instead.
103 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
104 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
105 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
106 instead.
108 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
109 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
110 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
112 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
113 must contain an explicit dependency on
114 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
116 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
117 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
118 effect except on very old platforms.
120 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
121 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
123 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
125 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
126 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
128 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
129 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
131 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
132 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
134 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
135 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
136 to <stdlib.h>.
138 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
139 rather than only defined to 1.
141 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
142 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
143 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
144 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
145 include <unistd.h>. For all other
146 functions provided by this module,
147 continue to include "openat.h".
149 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
150 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
151 iconv_t arguments.
153 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
154 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
156 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
157 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
158 "long options" and "options with optional
159 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
161 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
162 <stdio.h>.
164 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
165 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
166 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
167 The calling convention of the functions
168 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
170 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
171 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
172 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
173 The calling convention of the functions
174 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
176 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
177 The maint.mk file was copied from
178 coreutils, and the old
179 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
180 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
181 this will add several new checks. If some
182 new check is annoying, add the name of the
183 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
184 cfg.mk.
186 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
188 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
190 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
192 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
194 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
195 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
196 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
197 for it, like this:
198 errno = 0;
199 val = c_strtod (...);
200 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
201 xalloc_die ();
203 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
204 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
206 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
207 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
209 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
210 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
211 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
212 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
213 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
214 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
216 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
217 was removed.
219 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
220 <sys/stat.h>.
222 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
223 to <netdb.h>.
225 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
226 <math.h>.
227 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
228 <math.h>.
229 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
230 <math.h>.
232 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
233 <sys/stat.h>.
235 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
236 <dirent.h>.
238 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
239 to <unistd.h>.
241 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
242 to <unistd.h>.
244 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
245 $(LIBSOCKET).
247 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
248 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
249 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
250 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
251 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
253 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
254 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
255 socket descriptors are now compatible with
256 file descriptors. In general, this change
257 will simply improve your code's portability
258 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
259 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
260 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
261 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
262 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
263 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
265 This change does not remove the need to call
266 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
267 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
268 when you include the sys_socket module; while
269 the functionality will be restored soon, for
270 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
271 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
273 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
275 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
276 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
277 equivalent function, use function
278 xconcatenated_filename from module
279 'xconcat-filename'.
281 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
282 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
283 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
284 You may need to create a symbolic link for
285 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
286 installed in $prefix/lib.
288 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
289 to <string.h>.
291 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
292 to "glthread/lock.h".
293 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
294 to "glthread/tls.h".
296 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
297 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
298 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
300 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
301 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
302 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
303 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
305 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
306 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
307 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
308 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
310 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
311 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
312 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
313 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
314 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
316 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
318 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
319 to <arpa/inet.h>.
321 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
322 to <arpa/inet.h>.
324 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
325 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
327 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
328 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
329 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
330 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
332 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
333 implementations; clients that use controlled
334 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
335 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
336 module instead for smaller code size.
338 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
339 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
340 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
341 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
342 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
344 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
345 implementations; clients that use controlled
346 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
347 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
348 module instead for smaller code size.
350 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
351 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
352 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
353 module if you need it.
355 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
356 to <unistd.h>.
358 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
359 <strings.h>.
361 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
362 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
363 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
364 module description for the applicable license.
366 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
367 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
368 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
370 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
371 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
372 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
373 areadlink_with_size.
375 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
376 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
377 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
379 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
381 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
382 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
384 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
385 error to standard error; that is now the
386 caller's responsibility. It returns an
387 error code of type enum strtol_error
388 instead of the integer option value, and stores
389 the option value via a new int * argument.
390 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
391 are now an option name and option argument
392 instead of an option argument and a type string,
393 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
395 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
397 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
398 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
400 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
401 <wchar.h>.
403 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
404 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
406 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
407 <unistd.h>.
409 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
410 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
411 renamed:
412 xallocsa -> xmalloca
414 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
415 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
416 macros were renamed:
417 allocsa -> malloca
418 freesa -> freea
420 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
421 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
422 that has a different signature.
424 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
425 #include "sigprocmask.h"
426 with
427 #include <signal.h>
429 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
430 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
431 'long double' as a type exists.
433 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
434 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
435 des Renamed to crypto/des.
436 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
437 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
438 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
439 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
440 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
441 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
442 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
443 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
444 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
445 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
446 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
447 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
448 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
449 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
450 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
451 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
452 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
453 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
454 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
455 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
457 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
458 #include "vasprintf.h"
459 with
460 #include <stdio.h>
462 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
463 <search.h>.
465 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
466 to "unistr.h".
467 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
468 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
469 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
470 to "unistr.h".
471 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
472 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
473 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
474 to "unistr.h".
475 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
476 to "unistr.h".
478 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
479 iconv_string -> str_iconv
480 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
481 arguments)
483 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
484 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
485 carray-list You can pass NULL.
486 linked-list
487 linkedhash-list
488 avltree-list
489 rbtree-list
490 avltreehash-list
491 rbtreehash-list
493 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
494 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
495 avltree-oset
496 rbtree-oset
498 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
499 gc-des renamed:
501 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
502 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
503 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
504 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
505 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
506 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
507 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
508 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
509 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
510 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
511 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
513 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
514 using the "des" module directly.
516 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
517 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
518 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
520 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
521 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
522 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
523 #include "mkstemp.h"
524 with
525 #include <stdlib.h>
527 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
528 #include "strdup.h"
529 with
530 #include <string.h>
532 # This is for Emacs.
533 # Local Variables:
534 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
535 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
536 # End: