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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 2020-12-14 findprog-in The function 'find_in_given_path' now takes a 3rd
64 argument 'const char *directory'. To maintain the
65 previous behaviour, insert NULL as additional 3rd
66 argument.
68 2020-12-11 sh-quote The argv argument of the 'shell_quote_argv' function
69 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
70 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
71 when constructing this argument.
72 execute The prog_argv argument of the 'execute' function
73 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
74 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
75 when constructing this argument.
76 spawn-pipe The prog_argv argument of the functions
77 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
78 'create_pipe_bidi' is now of type
79 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
80 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
81 argument.
82 pipe-filter-gi The prog_argv argument of the
83 'pipe_filter_gi_create' function is now of type
84 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
85 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
86 argument.
87 pipe-filter-ii The prog_argv argument of the
88 'pipe_filter_ii_execute' function is now of type
89 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
90 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
91 argument.
92 javaexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
93 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
94 the signature of all your implementations of this
95 type.
96 csharpexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
97 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
98 the signature of all your implementations of this
99 type.
101 2020-12-02 spawn-pipe The functions 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
102 'create_pipe_bidi' now take a 4th argument
103 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
104 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
106 2020-12-02 execute The function 'execute' now takes a 4th argument
107 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
108 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
110 2020-10-16 hash This module deprecates the 'hash_delete' function
111 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
112 named 'hash_remove' equivalent.
114 2020-08-24 diffseq If you do not define NOTE_ORDERED to true,
115 the NOTE_DELETE and NOTE_INSERT actions might
116 not be done in order, to help cut down worst-case
117 recursion stack space from O(N) to O(log N).
119 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
120 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
121 this macro now takes an optional
122 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
124 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
125 because this macro now takes an optional
126 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
128 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
129 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
130 false.
132 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
133 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
134 mkstemp
135 mkstemps
136 mkostemp
137 mkostemps
138 tmpfile
139 stdlib-safer
140 tmpfile-safer
141 clean-temp
142 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
143 of this module.
145 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
146 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
147 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
148 removed as it is no longer necessary.
150 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
151 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
152 #include "getdate.h"
153 write
154 #include "parse-datetime.h"
155 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
157 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
158 'realloc-gnu' instead.
160 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
161 'calloc-gnu' instead.
163 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
164 'malloc-gnu' instead.
166 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
167 'fnmatch' instead.
169 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
170 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
171 #include "pipe.h"
172 write
173 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
175 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
176 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
177 provides "long options" and "options with optional
178 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
180 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
181 module 'rename' instead.
183 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
184 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
186 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
187 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
189 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
190 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
191 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
192 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
194 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
195 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
196 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
197 list of imported modules.
199 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
200 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
201 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
202 list of imported modules.
204 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
205 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
206 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
207 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
208 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
209 per POSIX and BSD.
211 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
213 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
215 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
216 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
217 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
219 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
220 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
221 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
222 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
224 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
226 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
227 takes the signal as argument.
229 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
230 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
231 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
233 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
234 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
236 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
237 now take an additional directory file descriptor
238 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
240 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
241 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
243 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
245 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
246 its include files and functions are renamed
247 accordingly.
249 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
250 on 2006-07-17.
252 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
253 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
254 not both). Now, callers should specify
255 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
256 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
258 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
259 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
260 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
262 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
264 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
265 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
266 stderr afterwards.
268 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
269 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
271 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
272 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
273 time zone and its name.
275 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
276 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
278 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
279 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
281 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
282 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
284 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
286 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
287 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
289 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
290 Programs intended to be portable to C++
291 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
293 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
294 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
295 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
297 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
298 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
299 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
300 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
302 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
304 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
305 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
306 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
307 modules now depend on time_rz.
309 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
310 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
311 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
312 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
314 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
315 detection routine, then the requirements are
316 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
317 than $LIB_ACL.
319 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
321 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
322 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
323 This changes both the ABI and the API.
324 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
325 shrink the current object; callers must now use
326 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
327 large positive) size for that.
329 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
330 were removed from public structures, and the
331 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
332 and compareseq.
334 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
335 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
336 The fdsavedir function is removed.
338 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
340 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
341 function.
343 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
344 processing is resettable. If your code uses
345 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
346 only one pass over the argument array.
348 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
349 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
351 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
352 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
353 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
354 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
356 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
357 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
358 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
360 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
361 function. If you need this function, you now need
362 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
364 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
365 function. If you need this function, you now need
366 to request the 'fstatat' module.
368 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
369 function. If you need this function, you now need
370 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
372 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
373 function. If you need this function, you now need
374 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
376 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
377 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
379 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
380 function. If you need this function, you now need
381 to request the 'fchownat' module.
383 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
384 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
386 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
387 function. If you need this function, you now need
388 to request the 'fstat' module.
390 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
392 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
393 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
395 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
396 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
397 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
398 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
399 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
401 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
402 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
403 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
404 portable to GNU/Hurd.
406 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
407 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
408 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
409 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
410 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
412 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
413 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
414 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
415 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
416 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
418 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
419 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
421 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
422 is now set to "no", not to ":".
424 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
425 to <unistd.h>.
427 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
428 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
430 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
431 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
433 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
434 default; to retain robust handling of directories
435 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
436 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
438 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
439 generalized.
441 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
442 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
443 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
445 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
446 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
447 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
448 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
449 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
450 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
451 rmdir header dosname.h.
452 savewd
453 stat
454 unlink
456 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
457 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
458 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
459 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
460 (which should have been internal to the module
461 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
462 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
463 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
464 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
465 substituted for.
467 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
468 module no longer guarantees that the following are
469 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
470 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
472 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
473 function. If you need this function, you now need
474 to request the 'iswblank' module.
476 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
478 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
479 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
481 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
482 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
484 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
485 parse-datetime module for the replacement
486 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
487 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
488 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
489 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
491 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
492 function. If you need this function, you now need
493 to request the 'waitpid' module.
495 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
496 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
497 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
498 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
500 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
501 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
502 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
503 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
505 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
506 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
507 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
508 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
509 may change again in the future once glibc provides
510 this feature as well.
512 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
514 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
515 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
516 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
518 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
519 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
521 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
522 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
524 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
525 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
527 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
528 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
529 renamed to amemxfrm.
531 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
532 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
534 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
535 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
536 --disable-cxx.
538 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
539 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
540 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
541 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
543 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
544 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
545 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
546 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
547 automatically.
549 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
550 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
551 get the functions that were previously provided.
553 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
554 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
556 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
557 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
558 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
559 instead.
561 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
562 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
563 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
564 instead.
566 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
567 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
568 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
569 instead.
571 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
572 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
573 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
575 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
576 must contain an explicit dependency on
577 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
579 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
580 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
581 effect except on very old platforms.
583 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
584 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
586 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
588 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
589 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
591 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
592 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
594 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
595 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
597 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
598 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
599 to <stdlib.h>.
601 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
602 rather than only defined to 1.
604 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
605 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
606 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
607 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
608 include <unistd.h>. For all other
609 functions provided by this module,
610 continue to include "openat.h".
612 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
613 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
614 iconv_t arguments.
616 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
617 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
619 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
620 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
621 "long options" and "options with optional
622 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
624 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
625 <stdio.h>.
627 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
628 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
629 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
630 The calling convention of the functions
631 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
633 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
634 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
635 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
636 The calling convention of the functions
637 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
639 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
640 The maint.mk file was copied from
641 coreutils, and the old
642 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
643 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
644 this will add several new checks. If some
645 new check is annoying, add the name of the
646 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
647 cfg.mk.
649 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
651 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
653 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
655 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
657 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
658 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
659 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
660 for it, like this:
661 errno = 0;
662 val = c_strtod (...);
663 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
664 xalloc_die ();
666 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
667 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
669 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
670 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
672 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
673 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
674 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
675 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
676 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
677 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
679 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
680 was removed.
682 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
683 <sys/stat.h>.
685 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
686 to <netdb.h>.
688 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
689 <math.h>.
690 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
691 <math.h>.
692 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
693 <math.h>.
695 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
696 <sys/stat.h>.
698 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
699 <dirent.h>.
701 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
702 to <unistd.h>.
704 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
705 to <unistd.h>.
707 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
708 $(LIBSOCKET).
710 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
711 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
712 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
713 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
714 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
716 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
717 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
718 socket descriptors are now compatible with
719 file descriptors. In general, this change
720 will simply improve your code's portability
721 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
722 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
723 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
724 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
725 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
726 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
728 This change does not remove the need to call
729 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
730 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
731 when you include the sys_socket module; while
732 the functionality will be restored soon, for
733 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
734 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
736 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
738 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
739 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
740 equivalent function, use function
741 xconcatenated_filename from module
742 'xconcat-filename'.
744 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
745 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
746 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
747 You may need to create a symbolic link for
748 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
749 installed in $prefix/lib.
751 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
752 to <string.h>.
754 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
755 to "glthread/lock.h".
756 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
757 to "glthread/tls.h".
759 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
760 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
761 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
763 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
764 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
765 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
766 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
768 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
769 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
770 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
771 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
773 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
774 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
775 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
776 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
777 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
779 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
781 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
782 to <arpa/inet.h>.
784 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
785 to <arpa/inet.h>.
787 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
788 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
790 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
791 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
792 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
793 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
795 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
796 implementations; clients that use controlled
797 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
798 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
799 module instead for smaller code size.
801 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
802 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
803 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
804 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
805 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
807 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
808 implementations; clients that use controlled
809 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
810 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
811 module instead for smaller code size.
813 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
814 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
815 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
816 module if you need it.
818 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
819 to <unistd.h>.
821 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
822 <strings.h>.
824 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
825 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
826 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
827 module description for the applicable license.
829 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
830 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
831 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
833 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
834 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
835 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
836 areadlink_with_size.
838 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
839 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
840 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
842 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
844 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
845 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
847 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
848 error to standard error; that is now the
849 caller's responsibility. It returns an
850 error code of type enum strtol_error
851 instead of the integer option value, and stores
852 the option value via a new int * argument.
853 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
854 are now an option name and option argument
855 instead of an option argument and a type string,
856 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
858 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
860 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
861 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
863 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
864 <wchar.h>.
866 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
867 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
869 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
870 <unistd.h>.
872 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
873 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
874 renamed:
875 xallocsa -> xmalloca
877 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
878 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
879 macros were renamed:
880 allocsa -> malloca
881 freesa -> freea
883 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
884 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
885 that has a different signature.
887 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
888 #include "sigprocmask.h"
889 with
890 #include <signal.h>
892 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
893 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
894 'long double' as a type exists.
896 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
897 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
898 des Renamed to crypto/des.
899 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
900 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
901 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
902 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
903 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
904 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
905 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
906 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
907 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
908 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
909 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
910 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
911 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
912 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
913 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
914 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
915 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
916 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
917 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
918 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
920 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
921 #include "vasprintf.h"
922 with
923 #include <stdio.h>
925 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
926 <search.h>.
928 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
929 to "unistr.h".
930 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
931 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
932 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
933 to "unistr.h".
934 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
935 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
936 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
937 to "unistr.h".
938 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
939 to "unistr.h".
941 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
942 iconv_string -> str_iconv
943 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
944 arguments)
946 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
947 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
948 carray-list You can pass NULL.
949 linked-list
950 linkedhash-list
951 avltree-list
952 rbtree-list
953 avltreehash-list
954 rbtreehash-list
956 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
957 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
958 avltree-oset
959 rbtree-oset
961 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
962 gc-des renamed:
964 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
965 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
966 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
967 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
968 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
969 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
970 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
971 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
972 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
973 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
974 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
976 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
977 using the "des" module directly.
979 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
980 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
981 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
983 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
984 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
985 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
986 #include "mkstemp.h"
987 with
988 #include <stdlib.h>
990 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
991 #include "strdup.h"
992 with
993 #include <string.h>
995 # This is for Emacs.
996 # Local Variables:
997 # coding: utf-8
998 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
999 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
1000 # End: