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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 2020-12-18 free This module, obsoleted in 2008, is gone.
65 2020-12-14 findprog-in The function 'find_in_given_path' now takes a 3rd
66 argument 'const char *directory'. To maintain the
67 previous behaviour, insert NULL as additional 3rd
68 argument.
70 2020-12-11 sh-quote The argv argument of the 'shell_quote_argv' function
71 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
72 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
73 when constructing this argument.
74 execute The prog_argv argument of the 'execute' function
75 is now of type 'const char * const *'. You no
76 longer need to cast read-only strings to 'char *'
77 when constructing this argument.
78 spawn-pipe The prog_argv argument of the functions
79 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
80 'create_pipe_bidi' is now of type
81 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
82 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
83 argument.
84 pipe-filter-gi The prog_argv argument of the
85 'pipe_filter_gi_create' function is now of type
86 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
87 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
88 argument.
89 pipe-filter-ii The prog_argv argument of the
90 'pipe_filter_ii_execute' function is now of type
91 'const char * const *'. You no longer need to cast
92 read-only strings to 'char *' when constructing this
93 argument.
94 javaexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
95 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
96 the signature of all your implementations of this
97 type.
98 csharpexec The prog_argv argument of the 'execute_fn' function
99 type is now of type 'const char * const *'. Update
100 the signature of all your implementations of this
101 type.
103 2020-12-02 spawn-pipe The functions 'create_pipe_out', 'create_pipe_in',
104 'create_pipe_bidi' now take a 4th argument
105 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
106 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
108 2020-12-02 execute The function 'execute' now takes a 4th argument
109 'const char *directory'. To maintain the previous
110 behaviour, insert NULL as additional 4th argument.
112 2020-10-16 hash This module deprecates the 'hash_delete' function
113 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
114 named 'hash_remove' equivalent.
116 2020-08-24 diffseq If you do not define NOTE_ORDERED to true,
117 the NOTE_DELETE and NOTE_INSERT actions might
118 not be done in order, to help cut down worst-case
119 recursion stack space from O(N) to O(log N).
121 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
122 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
123 this macro now takes an optional
124 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
126 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
127 because this macro now takes an optional
128 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
130 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
131 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
132 false.
134 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
135 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
136 mkstemp
137 mkstemps
138 mkostemp
139 mkostemps
140 tmpfile
141 stdlib-safer
142 tmpfile-safer
143 clean-temp
144 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
145 of this module.
147 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
148 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
149 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
150 removed as it is no longer necessary.
152 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
153 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
154 #include "getdate.h"
155 write
156 #include "parse-datetime.h"
157 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
159 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
160 'realloc-gnu' instead.
162 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
163 'calloc-gnu' instead.
165 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
166 'malloc-gnu' instead.
168 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
169 'fnmatch' instead.
171 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
172 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
173 #include "pipe.h"
174 write
175 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
177 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
178 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
179 provides "long options" and "options with optional
180 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
182 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
183 module 'rename' instead.
185 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
186 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
188 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
189 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
191 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
192 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
193 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
194 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
196 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
197 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
198 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
199 list of imported modules.
201 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
202 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
203 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
204 list of imported modules.
206 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
207 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
208 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
209 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
210 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
211 per POSIX and BSD.
213 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
215 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
217 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
218 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
219 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
221 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
222 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
223 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
224 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
226 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
228 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
229 takes the signal as argument.
231 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
232 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
233 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
235 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
236 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
238 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
239 now take an additional directory file descriptor
240 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
242 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
243 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
245 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
247 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
248 its include files and functions are renamed
249 accordingly.
251 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
252 on 2006-07-17.
254 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
255 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
256 not both). Now, callers should specify
257 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
258 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
260 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
261 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
262 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
264 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
266 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
267 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
268 stderr afterwards.
270 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
271 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
273 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
274 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
275 time zone and its name.
277 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
278 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
280 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
281 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
283 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
284 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
286 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
288 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
289 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
291 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
292 Programs intended to be portable to C++
293 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
295 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
296 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
297 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
299 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
300 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
301 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
302 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
304 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
306 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
307 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
308 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
309 modules now depend on time_rz.
311 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
312 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
313 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
314 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
316 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
317 detection routine, then the requirements are
318 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
319 than $LIB_ACL.
321 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
323 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
324 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
325 This changes both the ABI and the API.
326 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
327 shrink the current object; callers must now use
328 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
329 large positive) size for that.
331 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
332 were removed from public structures, and the
333 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
334 and compareseq.
336 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
337 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
338 The fdsavedir function is removed.
340 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
342 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
343 function.
345 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
346 processing is resettable. If your code uses
347 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
348 only one pass over the argument array.
350 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
351 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
353 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
354 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
355 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
356 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
358 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
359 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
360 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
362 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
363 function. If you need this function, you now need
364 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
366 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
367 function. If you need this function, you now need
368 to request the 'fstatat' module.
370 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
371 function. If you need this function, you now need
372 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
374 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
375 function. If you need this function, you now need
376 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
378 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
379 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
381 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
382 function. If you need this function, you now need
383 to request the 'fchownat' module.
385 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
386 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
388 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
389 function. If you need this function, you now need
390 to request the 'fstat' module.
392 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
394 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
395 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
397 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
398 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
399 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
400 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
401 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
403 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
404 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
405 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
406 portable to GNU/Hurd.
408 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
409 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
410 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
411 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
412 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
414 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
415 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
416 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
417 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
418 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
420 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
421 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
423 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
424 is now set to "no", not to ":".
426 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
427 to <unistd.h>.
429 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
430 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
432 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
433 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
435 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
436 default; to retain robust handling of directories
437 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
438 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
440 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
441 generalized.
443 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
444 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
445 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
447 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
448 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
449 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
450 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
451 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
452 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
453 rmdir header dosname.h.
454 savewd
455 stat
456 unlink
458 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
459 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
460 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
461 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
462 (which should have been internal to the module
463 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
464 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
465 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
466 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
467 substituted for.
469 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
470 module no longer guarantees that the following are
471 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
472 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
474 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
475 function. If you need this function, you now need
476 to request the 'iswblank' module.
478 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
480 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
481 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
483 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
484 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
486 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
487 parse-datetime module for the replacement
488 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
489 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
490 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
491 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
493 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
494 function. If you need this function, you now need
495 to request the 'waitpid' module.
497 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
498 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
499 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
500 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
502 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
503 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
504 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
505 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
507 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
508 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
509 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
510 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
511 may change again in the future once glibc provides
512 this feature as well.
514 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
516 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
517 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
518 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
520 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
521 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
523 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
524 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
526 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
527 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
529 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
530 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
531 renamed to amemxfrm.
533 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
534 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
536 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
537 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
538 --disable-cxx.
540 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
541 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
542 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
543 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
545 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
546 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
547 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
548 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
549 automatically.
551 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
552 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
553 get the functions that were previously provided.
555 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
556 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
558 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
559 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
560 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
561 instead.
563 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
564 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
565 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
566 instead.
568 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
569 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
570 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
571 instead.
573 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
574 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
575 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
577 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
578 must contain an explicit dependency on
579 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
581 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
582 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
583 effect except on very old platforms.
585 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
586 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
588 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
590 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
591 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
593 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
594 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
596 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
597 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
599 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
600 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
601 to <stdlib.h>.
603 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
604 rather than only defined to 1.
606 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
607 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
608 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
609 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
610 include <unistd.h>. For all other
611 functions provided by this module,
612 continue to include "openat.h".
614 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
615 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
616 iconv_t arguments.
618 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
619 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
621 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
622 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
623 "long options" and "options with optional
624 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
626 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
627 <stdio.h>.
629 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
630 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
631 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
632 The calling convention of the functions
633 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
635 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
636 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
637 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
638 The calling convention of the functions
639 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
641 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
642 The maint.mk file was copied from
643 coreutils, and the old
644 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
645 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
646 this will add several new checks. If some
647 new check is annoying, add the name of the
648 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
649 cfg.mk.
651 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
653 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
655 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
657 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
659 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
660 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
661 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
662 for it, like this:
663 errno = 0;
664 val = c_strtod (...);
665 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
666 xalloc_die ();
668 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
669 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
671 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
672 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
674 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
675 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
676 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
677 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
678 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
679 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
681 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
682 was removed.
684 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
685 <sys/stat.h>.
687 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
688 to <netdb.h>.
690 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
691 <math.h>.
692 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
693 <math.h>.
694 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
695 <math.h>.
697 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
698 <sys/stat.h>.
700 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
701 <dirent.h>.
703 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
704 to <unistd.h>.
706 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
707 to <unistd.h>.
709 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
710 $(LIBSOCKET).
712 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
713 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
714 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
715 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
716 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
718 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
719 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
720 socket descriptors are now compatible with
721 file descriptors. In general, this change
722 will simply improve your code's portability
723 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
724 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
725 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
726 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
727 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
728 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
730 This change does not remove the need to call
731 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
732 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
733 when you include the sys_socket module; while
734 the functionality will be restored soon, for
735 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
736 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
738 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
740 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
741 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
742 equivalent function, use function
743 xconcatenated_filename from module
744 'xconcat-filename'.
746 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
747 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
748 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
749 You may need to create a symbolic link for
750 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
751 installed in $prefix/lib.
753 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
754 to <string.h>.
756 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
757 to "glthread/lock.h".
758 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
759 to "glthread/tls.h".
761 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
762 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
763 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
765 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
766 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
767 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
768 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
770 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
771 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
772 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
773 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
775 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
776 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
777 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
778 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
779 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
781 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
783 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
784 to <arpa/inet.h>.
786 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
787 to <arpa/inet.h>.
789 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
790 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
792 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
793 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
794 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
795 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
797 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
798 implementations; clients that use controlled
799 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
800 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
801 module instead for smaller code size.
803 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
804 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
805 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
806 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
807 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
809 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
810 implementations; clients that use controlled
811 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
812 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
813 module instead for smaller code size.
815 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
816 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
817 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
818 module if you need it.
820 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
821 to <unistd.h>.
823 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
824 <strings.h>.
826 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
827 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
828 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
829 module description for the applicable license.
831 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
832 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
833 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
835 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
836 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
837 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
838 areadlink_with_size.
840 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
841 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
842 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
844 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
846 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
847 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
849 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
850 error to standard error; that is now the
851 caller's responsibility. It returns an
852 error code of type enum strtol_error
853 instead of the integer option value, and stores
854 the option value via a new int * argument.
855 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
856 are now an option name and option argument
857 instead of an option argument and a type string,
858 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
860 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
862 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
863 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
865 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
866 <wchar.h>.
868 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
869 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
871 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
872 <unistd.h>.
874 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
875 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
876 renamed:
877 xallocsa -> xmalloca
879 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
880 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
881 macros were renamed:
882 allocsa -> malloca
883 freesa -> freea
885 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
886 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
887 that has a different signature.
889 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
890 #include "sigprocmask.h"
891 with
892 #include <signal.h>
894 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
895 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
896 'long double' as a type exists.
898 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
899 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
900 des Renamed to crypto/des.
901 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
902 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
903 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
904 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
905 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
906 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
907 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
908 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
909 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
910 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
911 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
912 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
913 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
914 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
915 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
916 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
917 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
918 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
919 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
920 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
922 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
923 #include "vasprintf.h"
924 with
925 #include <stdio.h>
927 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
928 <search.h>.
930 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
931 to "unistr.h".
932 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
933 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
934 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
935 to "unistr.h".
936 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
937 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
938 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
939 to "unistr.h".
940 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
941 to "unistr.h".
943 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
944 iconv_string -> str_iconv
945 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
946 arguments)
948 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
949 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
950 carray-list You can pass NULL.
951 linked-list
952 linkedhash-list
953 avltree-list
954 rbtree-list
955 avltreehash-list
956 rbtreehash-list
958 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
959 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
960 avltree-oset
961 rbtree-oset
963 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
964 gc-des renamed:
966 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
967 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
968 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
969 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
970 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
971 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
972 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
973 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
974 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
975 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
976 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
978 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
979 using the "des" module directly.
981 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
982 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
983 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
985 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
986 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
987 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
988 #include "mkstemp.h"
989 with
990 #include <stdlib.h>
992 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
993 #include "strdup.h"
994 with
995 #include <string.h>
997 # This is for Emacs.
998 # Local Variables:
999 # coding: utf-8
1000 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
1001 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
1002 # End: