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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 2020-12-02 spawn-pipe The functions 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
64 'create_pipe_bidi' now take a 4th argument
65 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
66 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
68 2020-12-02 execute The function 'execute' now takes a 4th argument
69 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
70 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
72 2020-10-16 hash This module deprecates the 'hash_delete' function
73 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
74 named 'hash_remove' equivalent.
76 2020-08-24 diffseq If you do not define NOTE_ORDERED to true,
77 the NOTE_DELETE and NOTE_INSERT actions might
78 not be done in order, to help cut down worst-case
79 recursion stack space from O(N) to O(log N).
81 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
82 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
83 this macro now takes an optional
84 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
86 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
87 because this macro now takes an optional
88 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
90 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
91 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
92 false.
94 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
95 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
96 mkstemp
97 mkstemps
98 mkostemp
99 mkostemps
100 tmpfile
101 stdlib-safer
102 tmpfile-safer
103 clean-temp
104 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
105 of this module.
107 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
108 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
109 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
110 removed as it is no longer necessary.
112 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
113 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
114 #include "getdate.h"
115 write
116 #include "parse-datetime.h"
117 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
119 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
120 'realloc-gnu' instead.
122 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
123 'calloc-gnu' instead.
125 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
126 'malloc-gnu' instead.
128 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
129 'fnmatch' instead.
131 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
132 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
133 #include "pipe.h"
134 write
135 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
137 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
138 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
139 provides "long options" and "options with optional
140 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
142 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
143 module 'rename' instead.
145 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
146 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
148 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
149 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
151 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
152 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
153 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
154 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
156 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
157 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
158 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
159 list of imported modules.
161 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
162 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
163 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
164 list of imported modules.
166 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
167 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
168 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
169 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
170 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
171 per POSIX and BSD.
173 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
175 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
177 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
178 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
179 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
181 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
182 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
183 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
184 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
186 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
188 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
189 takes the signal as argument.
191 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
192 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
193 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
195 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
196 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
198 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
199 now take an additional directory file descriptor
200 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
202 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
203 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
205 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
207 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
208 its include files and functions are renamed
209 accordingly.
211 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
212 on 2006-07-17.
214 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
215 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
216 not both). Now, callers should specify
217 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
218 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
220 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
221 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
222 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
224 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
226 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
227 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
228 stderr afterwards.
230 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
231 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
233 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
234 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
235 time zone and its name.
237 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
238 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
240 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
241 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
243 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
244 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
246 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
248 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
249 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
251 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
252 Programs intended to be portable to C++
253 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
255 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
256 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
257 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
259 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
260 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
261 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
262 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
264 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
266 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
267 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
268 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
269 modules now depend on time_rz.
271 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
272 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
273 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
274 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
276 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
277 detection routine, then the requirements are
278 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
279 than $LIB_ACL.
281 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
283 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
284 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
285 This changes both the ABI and the API.
286 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
287 shrink the current object; callers must now use
288 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
289 large positive) size for that.
291 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
292 were removed from public structures, and the
293 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
294 and compareseq.
296 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
297 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
298 The fdsavedir function is removed.
300 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
302 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
303 function.
305 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
306 processing is resettable. If your code uses
307 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
308 only one pass over the argument array.
310 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
311 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
313 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
314 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
315 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
316 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
318 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
319 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
320 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
322 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
323 function. If you need this function, you now need
324 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
326 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
327 function. If you need this function, you now need
328 to request the 'fstatat' module.
330 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
331 function. If you need this function, you now need
332 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
334 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
335 function. If you need this function, you now need
336 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
338 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
339 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
341 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
342 function. If you need this function, you now need
343 to request the 'fchownat' module.
345 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
346 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
348 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
349 function. If you need this function, you now need
350 to request the 'fstat' module.
352 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
354 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
355 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
357 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
358 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
359 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
360 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
361 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
363 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
364 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
365 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
366 portable to GNU/Hurd.
368 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
369 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
370 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
371 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
372 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
374 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
375 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
376 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
377 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
378 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
380 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
381 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
383 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
384 is now set to "no", not to ":".
386 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
387 to <unistd.h>.
389 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
390 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
392 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
393 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
395 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
396 default; to retain robust handling of directories
397 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
398 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
400 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
401 generalized.
403 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
404 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
405 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
407 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
408 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
409 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
410 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
411 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
412 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
413 rmdir header dosname.h.
414 savewd
415 stat
416 unlink
418 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
419 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
420 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
421 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
422 (which should have been internal to the module
423 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
424 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
425 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
426 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
427 substituted for.
429 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
430 module no longer guarantees that the following are
431 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
432 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
434 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
435 function. If you need this function, you now need
436 to request the 'iswblank' module.
438 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
440 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
441 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
443 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
444 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
446 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
447 parse-datetime module for the replacement
448 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
449 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
450 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
451 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
453 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
454 function. If you need this function, you now need
455 to request the 'waitpid' module.
457 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
458 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
459 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
460 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
462 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
463 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
464 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
465 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
467 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
468 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
469 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
470 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
471 may change again in the future once glibc provides
472 this feature as well.
474 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
476 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
477 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
478 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
480 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
481 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
483 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
484 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
486 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
487 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
489 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
490 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
491 renamed to amemxfrm.
493 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
494 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
496 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
497 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
498 --disable-cxx.
500 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
501 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
502 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
503 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
505 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
506 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
507 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
508 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
509 automatically.
511 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
512 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
513 get the functions that were previously provided.
515 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
516 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
518 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
519 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
520 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
521 instead.
523 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
524 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
525 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
526 instead.
528 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
529 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
530 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
531 instead.
533 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
534 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
535 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
537 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
538 must contain an explicit dependency on
539 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
541 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
542 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
543 effect except on very old platforms.
545 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
546 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
548 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
550 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
551 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
553 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
554 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
556 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
557 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
559 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
560 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
561 to <stdlib.h>.
563 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
564 rather than only defined to 1.
566 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
567 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
568 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
569 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
570 include <unistd.h>. For all other
571 functions provided by this module,
572 continue to include "openat.h".
574 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
575 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
576 iconv_t arguments.
578 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
579 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
581 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
582 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
583 "long options" and "options with optional
584 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
586 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
587 <stdio.h>.
589 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
590 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
591 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
592 The calling convention of the functions
593 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
595 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
596 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
597 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
598 The calling convention of the functions
599 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
601 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
602 The maint.mk file was copied from
603 coreutils, and the old
604 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
605 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
606 this will add several new checks. If some
607 new check is annoying, add the name of the
608 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
609 cfg.mk.
611 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
613 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
615 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
617 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
619 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
620 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
621 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
622 for it, like this:
623 errno = 0;
624 val = c_strtod (...);
625 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
626 xalloc_die ();
628 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
629 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
631 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
632 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
634 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
635 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
636 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
637 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
638 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
639 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
641 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
642 was removed.
644 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
645 <sys/stat.h>.
647 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
648 to <netdb.h>.
650 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
651 <math.h>.
652 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
653 <math.h>.
654 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
655 <math.h>.
657 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
658 <sys/stat.h>.
660 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
661 <dirent.h>.
663 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
664 to <unistd.h>.
666 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
667 to <unistd.h>.
669 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
670 $(LIBSOCKET).
672 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
673 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
674 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
675 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
676 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
678 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
679 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
680 socket descriptors are now compatible with
681 file descriptors. In general, this change
682 will simply improve your code's portability
683 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
684 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
685 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
686 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
687 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
688 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
690 This change does not remove the need to call
691 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
692 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
693 when you include the sys_socket module; while
694 the functionality will be restored soon, for
695 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
696 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
698 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
700 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
701 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
702 equivalent function, use function
703 xconcatenated_filename from module
704 'xconcat-filename'.
706 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
707 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
708 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
709 You may need to create a symbolic link for
710 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
711 installed in $prefix/lib.
713 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
714 to <string.h>.
716 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
717 to "glthread/lock.h".
718 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
719 to "glthread/tls.h".
721 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
722 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
723 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
725 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
726 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
727 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
728 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
730 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
731 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
732 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
733 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
735 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
736 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
737 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
738 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
739 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
741 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
743 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
744 to <arpa/inet.h>.
746 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
747 to <arpa/inet.h>.
749 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
750 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
752 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
753 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
754 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
755 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
757 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
758 implementations; clients that use controlled
759 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
760 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
761 module instead for smaller code size.
763 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
764 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
765 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
766 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
767 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
769 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
770 implementations; clients that use controlled
771 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
772 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
773 module instead for smaller code size.
775 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
776 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
777 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
778 module if you need it.
780 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
781 to <unistd.h>.
783 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
784 <strings.h>.
786 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
787 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
788 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
789 module description for the applicable license.
791 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
792 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
793 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
795 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
796 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
797 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
798 areadlink_with_size.
800 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
801 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
802 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
804 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
806 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
807 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
809 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
810 error to standard error; that is now the
811 caller's responsibility. It returns an
812 error code of type enum strtol_error
813 instead of the integer option value, and stores
814 the option value via a new int * argument.
815 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
816 are now an option name and option argument
817 instead of an option argument and a type string,
818 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
820 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
822 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
823 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
825 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
826 <wchar.h>.
828 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
829 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
831 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
832 <unistd.h>.
834 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
835 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
836 renamed:
837 xallocsa -> xmalloca
839 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
840 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
841 macros were renamed:
842 allocsa -> malloca
843 freesa -> freea
845 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
846 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
847 that has a different signature.
849 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
850 #include "sigprocmask.h"
851 with
852 #include <signal.h>
854 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
855 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
856 'long double' as a type exists.
858 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
859 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
860 des Renamed to crypto/des.
861 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
862 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
863 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
864 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
865 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
866 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
867 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
868 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
869 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
870 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
871 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
872 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
873 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
874 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
875 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
876 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
877 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
878 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
879 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
880 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
882 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
883 #include "vasprintf.h"
884 with
885 #include <stdio.h>
887 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
888 <search.h>.
890 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
891 to "unistr.h".
892 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
893 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
894 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
895 to "unistr.h".
896 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
897 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
898 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
899 to "unistr.h".
900 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
901 to "unistr.h".
903 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
904 iconv_string -> str_iconv
905 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
906 arguments)
908 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
909 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
910 carray-list You can pass NULL.
911 linked-list
912 linkedhash-list
913 avltree-list
914 rbtree-list
915 avltreehash-list
916 rbtreehash-list
918 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
919 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
920 avltree-oset
921 rbtree-oset
923 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
924 gc-des renamed:
926 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
927 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
928 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
929 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
930 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
931 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
932 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
933 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
934 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
935 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
936 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
938 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
939 using the "des" module directly.
941 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
942 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
943 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
945 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
946 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
947 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
948 #include "mkstemp.h"
949 with
950 #include <stdlib.h>
952 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
953 #include "strdup.h"
954 with
955 #include <string.h>
957 # This is for Emacs.
958 # Local Variables:
959 # coding: utf-8
960 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
961 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
962 # End: