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1 Important general notes
2 -----------------------
4 Date Modules Changes
6 2019-12-11 Support for These modules are now supported in C++ mode as well.
7 ISO C or POSIX This means, while the autoconfiguration uses the C
8 functions compiler, the resulting header files and function
9 substitutes can be used with a matching C++ compiler
10 as well.
12 2019-02-14 gnulib-tool If you use multiple --local-dir options at once:
13 The first one now has the highest priority, not the
14 last one.
16 2019-01-04 (all) The meaning of the 'Link' section in the module
17 descriptions has been clarified: It overrides the
18 combined 'Link' sections from the dependencies.
20 2018-10-22 (all) Automake >= 1.11 and Autoconf >= 2.63 are required.
22 2016-09-05 progname There is now an alternate module 'getprogname'. It
23 defines a getprogname() function; use it to obtain
24 the name of the current program.
25 Recommended use:
26 - In a program's main() function, and associated
27 usage() and help() functions, use 'progname'.
28 - In library code, or more generally any code that
29 is not near the main() function, use
30 'getprogname'.
32 2013-04-24 gettext If your project uses 'gettextize --intl' it is now
33 your responsibility to put -I$(top_builddir)/intl
34 into the Makefile.am for gnulib.
36 2012-06-27 elisp-comp The module 'elisp-comp' is removed; the script is
37 not independently useful outside of automake.
39 2012-06-21 gnulib-tool The option --with-tests is now implied by the
40 options --create-testdir, --test,
41 --create-megatestdir, --megatest.
43 2012-01-07 quotearg In the C locale, the function will no longer use
44 the grave accent character to begin a quoted
45 string (`like this'). It will use apostrophes
46 'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
47 ‘like these’. You may want to adjust any error
48 messages that hard code the quoting characters.
50 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
51 now expects the complete list of modules and other
52 options on the command line. If you want to
53 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
54 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
56 User visible incompatible changes
57 ---------------------------------
59 Date Modules Changes
61 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
62 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
63 false.
65 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
66 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
67 mkstemp
68 mkstemps
69 mkostemp
70 mkostemps
71 tmpfile
72 stdlib-safer
73 tmpfile-safer
74 clean-temp
75 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
76 of this module.
78 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
79 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
80 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
81 removed as it is no longer necessary.
83 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
84 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
85 #include "getdate.h"
86 write
87 #include "parse-datetime.h"
88 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
90 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
91 'realloc-gnu' instead.
93 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
94 'calloc-gnu' instead.
96 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
97 'malloc-gnu' instead.
99 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
100 'fnmatch' instead.
102 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
103 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
104 #include "pipe.h"
105 write
106 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
108 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
109 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
110 provides "long options" and "options with optional
111 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
113 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
114 module 'rename' instead.
116 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
117 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
119 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
120 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
122 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
123 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
124 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
125 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
127 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
128 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
129 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
130 list of imported modules.
132 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
133 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
134 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
135 list of imported modules.
137 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
138 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
139 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
140 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
141 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
142 per POSIX and BSD.
144 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
146 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
148 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
149 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
150 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
152 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
153 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
154 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
155 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
157 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
159 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
160 takes the signal as argument.
162 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
163 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
164 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
166 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
167 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
169 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
170 now take an additional directory file descriptor
171 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
173 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
174 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
176 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
178 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
179 its include files and functions are renamed
180 accordingly.
182 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
183 on 2006-07-17.
185 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
186 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
187 not both). Now, callers should specify
188 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
189 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
191 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
192 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
193 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
195 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
197 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
198 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
199 stderr afterwards.
201 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
202 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
204 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
205 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
206 time zone and its name.
208 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
209 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
211 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
212 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
214 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
215 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
217 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
219 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
220 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
222 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
223 Programs intended to be portable to C++
224 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
226 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
227 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
228 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
230 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
231 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
232 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
233 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
235 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
237 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
238 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
239 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
240 modules now depend on time_rz.
242 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
243 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
244 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
245 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
247 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
248 detection routine, then the requirements are
249 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
250 than $LIB_ACL.
252 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
254 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
255 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
256 This changes both the ABI and the API.
257 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
258 shrink the current object; callers must now use
259 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
260 large positive) size for that.
262 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
263 were removed from public structures, and the
264 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
265 and compareseq.
267 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
268 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
269 The fdsavedir function is removed.
271 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
273 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
274 function.
276 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
277 processing is resettable. If your code uses
278 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
279 only one pass over the argument array.
281 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
282 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
284 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
285 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
286 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
287 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
289 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
290 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
291 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
293 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
294 function. If you need this function, you now need
295 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
297 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
298 function. If you need this function, you now need
299 to request the 'fstatat' module.
301 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
302 function. If you need this function, you now need
303 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
305 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
306 function. If you need this function, you now need
307 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
309 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
310 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
312 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
313 function. If you need this function, you now need
314 to request the 'fchownat' module.
316 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
317 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
319 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
320 function. If you need this function, you now need
321 to request the 'fstat' module.
323 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
325 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
326 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
328 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
329 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
330 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
331 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
332 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
334 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
335 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
336 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
337 portable to GNU/Hurd.
339 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
340 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
341 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
342 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
343 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
345 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
346 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
347 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
348 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
349 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
351 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
352 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
354 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
355 is now set to "no", not to ":".
357 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
358 to <unistd.h>.
360 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
361 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
363 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
364 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
366 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
367 default; to retain robust handling of directories
368 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
369 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
371 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
372 generalized.
374 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
375 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
376 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
378 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
379 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
380 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
381 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
382 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
383 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
384 rmdir header dosname.h.
385 savewd
386 stat
387 unlink
389 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
390 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
391 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
392 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
393 (which should have been internal to the module
394 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
395 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
396 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
397 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
398 substituted for.
400 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
401 module no longer guarantees that the following are
402 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
403 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
405 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
406 function. If you need this function, you now need
407 to request the 'iswblank' module.
409 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
411 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
412 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
414 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
415 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
417 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
418 parse-datetime module for the replacement
419 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
420 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
421 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
422 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
424 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
425 function. If you need this function, you now need
426 to request the 'waitpid' module.
428 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
429 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
430 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
431 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
433 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
434 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
435 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
436 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
438 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
439 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
440 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
441 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
442 may change again in the future once glibc provides
443 this feature as well.
445 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
447 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
448 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
449 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
451 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
452 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
454 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
455 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
457 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
458 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
460 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
461 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
462 renamed to amemxfrm.
464 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
465 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
467 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
468 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
469 --disable-cxx.
471 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
472 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
473 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
474 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
476 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
477 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
478 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
479 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
480 automatically.
482 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
483 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
484 get the functions that were previously provided.
486 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
487 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
489 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
490 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
491 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
492 instead.
494 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
495 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
496 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
497 instead.
499 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
500 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
501 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
502 instead.
504 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
505 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
506 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
508 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
509 must contain an explicit dependency on
510 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
512 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
513 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
514 effect except on very old platforms.
516 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
517 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
519 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
521 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
522 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
524 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
525 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
527 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
528 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
530 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
531 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
532 to <stdlib.h>.
534 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
535 rather than only defined to 1.
537 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
538 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
539 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
540 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
541 include <unistd.h>. For all other
542 functions provided by this module,
543 continue to include "openat.h".
545 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
546 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
547 iconv_t arguments.
549 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
550 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
552 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
553 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
554 "long options" and "options with optional
555 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
557 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
558 <stdio.h>.
560 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
561 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
562 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
563 The calling convention of the functions
564 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
566 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
567 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
568 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
569 The calling convention of the functions
570 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
572 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
573 The maint.mk file was copied from
574 coreutils, and the old
575 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
576 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
577 this will add several new checks. If some
578 new check is annoying, add the name of the
579 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
580 cfg.mk.
582 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
584 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
586 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
588 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
590 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
591 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
592 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
593 for it, like this:
594 errno = 0;
595 val = c_strtod (...);
596 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
597 xalloc_die ();
599 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
600 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
602 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
603 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
605 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
606 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
607 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
608 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
609 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
610 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
612 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
613 was removed.
615 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
616 <sys/stat.h>.
618 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
619 to <netdb.h>.
621 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
622 <math.h>.
623 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
624 <math.h>.
625 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
626 <math.h>.
628 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
629 <sys/stat.h>.
631 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
632 <dirent.h>.
634 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
635 to <unistd.h>.
637 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
638 to <unistd.h>.
640 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
641 $(LIBSOCKET).
643 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
644 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
645 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
646 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
647 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
649 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
650 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
651 socket descriptors are now compatible with
652 file descriptors. In general, this change
653 will simply improve your code's portability
654 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
655 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
656 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
657 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
658 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
659 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
661 This change does not remove the need to call
662 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
663 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
664 when you include the sys_socket module; while
665 the functionality will be restored soon, for
666 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
667 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
669 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
671 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
672 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
673 equivalent function, use function
674 xconcatenated_filename from module
675 'xconcat-filename'.
677 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
678 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
679 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
680 You may need to create a symbolic link for
681 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
682 installed in $prefix/lib.
684 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
685 to <string.h>.
687 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
688 to "glthread/lock.h".
689 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
690 to "glthread/tls.h".
692 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
693 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
694 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
696 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
697 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
698 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
699 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
701 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
702 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
703 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
704 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
706 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
707 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
708 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
709 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
710 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
712 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
714 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
715 to <arpa/inet.h>.
717 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
718 to <arpa/inet.h>.
720 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
721 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
723 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
724 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
725 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
726 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
728 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
729 implementations; clients that use controlled
730 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
731 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
732 module instead for smaller code size.
734 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
735 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
736 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
737 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
738 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
740 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
741 implementations; clients that use controlled
742 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
743 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
744 module instead for smaller code size.
746 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
747 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
748 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
749 module if you need it.
751 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
752 to <unistd.h>.
754 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
755 <strings.h>.
757 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
758 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
759 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
760 module description for the applicable license.
762 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
763 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
764 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
766 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
767 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
768 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
769 areadlink_with_size.
771 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
772 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
773 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
775 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
777 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
778 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
780 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
781 error to standard error; that is now the
782 caller's responsibility. It returns an
783 error code of type enum strtol_error
784 instead of the integer option value, and stores
785 the option value via a new int * argument.
786 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
787 are now an option name and option argument
788 instead of an option argument and a type string,
789 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
791 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
793 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
794 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
796 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
797 <wchar.h>.
799 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
800 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
802 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
803 <unistd.h>.
805 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
806 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
807 renamed:
808 xallocsa -> xmalloca
810 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
811 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
812 macros were renamed:
813 allocsa -> malloca
814 freesa -> freea
816 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
817 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
818 that has a different signature.
820 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
821 #include "sigprocmask.h"
822 with
823 #include <signal.h>
825 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
826 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
827 'long double' as a type exists.
829 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
830 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
831 des Renamed to crypto/des.
832 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
833 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
834 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
835 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
836 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
837 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
838 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
839 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
840 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
841 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
842 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
843 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
844 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
845 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
846 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
847 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
848 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
849 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
850 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
851 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
853 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
854 #include "vasprintf.h"
855 with
856 #include <stdio.h>
858 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
859 <search.h>.
861 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
862 to "unistr.h".
863 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
864 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
865 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
866 to "unistr.h".
867 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
868 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
869 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
870 to "unistr.h".
871 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
872 to "unistr.h".
874 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
875 iconv_string -> str_iconv
876 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
877 arguments)
879 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
880 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
881 carray-list You can pass NULL.
882 linked-list
883 linkedhash-list
884 avltree-list
885 rbtree-list
886 avltreehash-list
887 rbtreehash-list
889 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
890 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
891 avltree-oset
892 rbtree-oset
894 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
895 gc-des renamed:
897 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
898 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
899 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
900 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
901 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
902 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
903 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
904 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
905 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
906 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
907 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
909 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
910 using the "des" module directly.
912 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
913 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
914 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
916 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
917 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
918 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
919 #include "mkstemp.h"
920 with
921 #include <stdlib.h>
923 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
924 #include "strdup.h"
925 with
926 #include <string.h>
928 # This is for Emacs.
929 # Local Variables:
930 # coding: utf-8
931 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
932 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
933 # End: