6 2012-01-07 quotearg In the C locale, the function will no longer use
7 the grave accent character to begin a quoted
8 string (`like this'). It will use apostrophes
9 'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
10 ‘like these’. You may want to adjust any error
11 messages that hard code the quoting characters.
13 2010-09-04 gnulib-tool The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
14 now expects the complete list of modules and other
15 options on the command line. If you want to
16 augment (not set) the list of modules, use the
17 new option '--add-import' instead of '--import'.
19 User visible incompatible changes
20 ---------------------------------
24 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
25 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
27 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
28 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
29 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
30 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
32 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
33 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
34 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
36 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
37 function. If you need this function, you now need
38 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
40 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
41 function. If you need this function, you now need
42 to request the 'fstatat' module.
44 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
45 function. If you need this function, you now need
46 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
48 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
49 function. If you need this function, you now need
50 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
52 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
53 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
55 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
56 function. If you need this function, you now need
57 to request the 'fchownat' module.
59 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
60 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
62 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
63 function. If you need this function, you now need
64 to request the 'fstat' module.
66 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
68 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
69 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
71 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
72 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
73 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
74 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
75 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
77 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
78 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
79 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
82 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
83 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
84 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
85 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
86 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
88 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
89 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
90 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
91 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
92 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
94 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
95 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
97 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
98 is now set to "no", not to ":".
100 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
103 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
104 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
106 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
107 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
109 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
110 default; to retain robust handling of directories
111 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
112 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
114 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
117 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
118 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
119 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
121 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
122 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
123 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
124 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
125 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
126 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
127 rmdir header dosname.h.
132 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
133 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
134 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
135 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
136 (which should have been internal to the module
137 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
138 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
139 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
140 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
143 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
144 module no longer guarantees that the following are
145 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
146 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
148 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
149 function. If you need this function, you now need
150 to request the 'iswblank' module.
152 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
154 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
155 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
157 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
158 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
160 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
161 parse-datetime module for the replacement
162 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
163 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
164 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
165 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
167 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
168 function. If you need this function, you now need
169 to request the 'waitpid' module.
171 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
172 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
173 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
174 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
176 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
177 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
178 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
179 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
181 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
182 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
183 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
184 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
185 may change again in the future once glibc provides
186 this feature as well.
188 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
190 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
191 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
192 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
194 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
195 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
197 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
198 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
200 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
201 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
203 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
204 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
207 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
208 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
210 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
211 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
214 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
215 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
216 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
217 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
219 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
220 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
221 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
222 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
225 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
226 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
227 get the functions that were previously provided.
229 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
230 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
232 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
233 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
234 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
237 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
238 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
239 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
242 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
243 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
244 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
247 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
248 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
249 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
251 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
252 must contain an explicit dependency on
255 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
256 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
257 effect except on very old platforms.
259 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
260 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
262 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
264 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
267 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
270 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
271 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
273 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
274 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
277 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
278 rather than only defined to 1.
280 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
281 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
282 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
283 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
284 include <unistd.h>. For all other
285 functions provided by this module,
286 continue to include "openat.h".
288 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
289 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
292 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
293 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
295 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
296 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
297 "long options" and "options with optional
298 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
300 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
303 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
304 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
305 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
306 The calling convention of the functions
307 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
309 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
310 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
311 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
312 The calling convention of the functions
313 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
315 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
316 The maint.mk file was copied from
317 coreutils, and the old
318 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
319 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
320 this will add several new checks. If some
321 new check is annoying, add the name of the
322 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
325 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
327 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
329 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
331 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
333 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
334 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
335 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
338 val = c_strtod (...);
339 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
342 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
343 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
345 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
346 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
348 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
349 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
350 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
351 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
352 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
353 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
355 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
358 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
361 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
364 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
366 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
368 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
371 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
374 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
377 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
380 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
383 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
386 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
387 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
388 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
389 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
390 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
392 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
393 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
394 socket descriptors are now compatible with
395 file descriptors. In general, this change
396 will simply improve your code's portability
397 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
398 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
399 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
400 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
401 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
402 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
404 This change does not remove the need to call
405 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
406 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
407 when you include the sys_socket module; while
408 the functionality will be restored soon, for
409 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
410 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
412 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
414 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
415 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
416 equivalent function, use function
417 xconcatenated_filename from module
420 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
421 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
422 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
423 You may need to create a symbolic link for
424 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
425 installed in $prefix/lib.
427 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
430 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
431 to "glthread/lock.h".
432 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
435 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
436 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
437 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
439 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
440 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
441 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
442 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
444 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
445 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
446 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
447 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
449 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
450 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
451 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
452 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
453 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
455 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
457 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
460 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
463 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
464 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
466 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
467 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
468 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
469 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
471 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
472 implementations; clients that use controlled
473 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
474 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
475 module instead for smaller code size.
477 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
478 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
479 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
480 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
481 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
483 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
484 implementations; clients that use controlled
485 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
486 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
487 module instead for smaller code size.
489 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
490 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
491 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
492 module if you need it.
494 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
497 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
500 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
501 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
502 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
503 module description for the applicable license.
505 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
506 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
507 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
509 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
510 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
511 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
514 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
515 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
516 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
518 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
520 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
521 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
523 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
524 error to standard error; that is now the
525 caller's responsibility. It returns an
526 error code of type enum strtol_error
527 instead of the integer option value, and stores
528 the option value via a new int * argument.
529 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
530 are now an option name and option argument
531 instead of an option argument and a type string,
532 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
534 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
536 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
537 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
539 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
542 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
543 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
545 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
548 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
549 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
553 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
554 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
559 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
560 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
561 that has a different signature.
563 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
564 #include "sigprocmask.h"
568 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
569 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
570 'long double' as a type exists.
572 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
573 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
574 des Renamed to crypto/des.
575 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
576 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
577 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
578 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
579 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
580 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
581 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
582 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
583 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
584 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
585 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
586 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
587 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
588 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
589 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
590 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
591 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
592 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
593 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
594 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
596 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
597 #include "vasprintf.h"
601 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
604 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
606 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
607 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
608 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
610 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
611 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
612 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
614 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
617 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
618 iconv_string -> str_iconv
619 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
622 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
623 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
624 carray-list You can pass NULL.
632 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
633 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
637 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
640 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
641 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
642 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
643 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
644 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
645 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
646 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
647 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
648 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
649 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
650 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
652 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
653 using the "des" module directly.
655 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
656 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
657 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
659 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
660 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
661 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
666 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
673 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
674 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil