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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 2020-08-01 libtextstyle-optional You now need to invoke
62 gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE_OPTIONAL explicitly, because
63 this macro now takes an optional
64 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
66 2020-08-01 libtextstyle You now need to invoke gl_LIBTEXTSTYLE explicitly,
67 because this macro now takes an optional
68 MINIMUM-VERSION argument.
70 2020-06-27 clean-temp The functions open_temp, fopen_temp now take a
71 'bool delete_on_close' argument. If in doubt, pass
72 false.
74 2020-06-27 tempname The link requirements of these modules are changed
75 mkdtemp from empty to $(LIB_GETRANDOM).
76 mkstemp
77 mkstemps
78 mkostemp
79 mkostemps
80 tmpfile
81 stdlib-safer
82 tmpfile-safer
83 clean-temp
84 javacomp $(LIB_GETRANDOM) was added to the link requirements
85 of this module.
87 2020-05-27 read-file The functions provided by this module now take an
88 'int flags' argument to modify the file reading
89 behavior. The read_binary_file function has been
90 removed as it is no longer necessary.
92 2020-04-27 getdate This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
93 'parse-datetime' instead. Instead of
94 #include "getdate.h"
95 write
96 #include "parse-datetime.h"
97 The function get_date is renamed to parse_datetime.
99 2020-04-27 realloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
100 'realloc-gnu' instead.
102 2020-04-27 calloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
103 'calloc-gnu' instead.
105 2020-04-27 malloc This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
106 'malloc-gnu' instead.
108 2020-04-27 fnmatch-posix This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
109 'fnmatch' instead.
111 2020-04-27 pipe This deprecated module is removed. Use the module
112 'spawn-pipe' instead. Instead of
113 #include "pipe.h"
114 write
115 #include "spawn-pipe.h"
117 2020-04-27 getopt This deprecated module is removed. Please choose
118 among getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu
119 provides "long options" and "options with optional
120 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
122 2020-04-27 rename-dest-slash This deprecated module is removed. Use the
123 module 'rename' instead.
125 2020-04-27 unictype/bidicategory-* These deprecated modules are removed. Use
126 the modules unictype/bidiclass-* instead.
128 2020-03-28 dosname On native Windows, OS/2, DOS,
129 IS_RELATIVE_FILE_NAME("c:") now returns false.
131 2020-03-28 filename The macro IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is deprecated. Use
132 IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME instead.
133 The macro IS_PATH_WITH_DIR is deprecated. Use
134 IS_FILE_NAME_WITH_DIR instead.
136 2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
137 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
138 functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
139 list of imported modules.
141 2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
142 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
143 functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
144 list of imported modules.
146 2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
147 lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
148 fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of failing
149 (the GNU/Linux behavior through glibc 2.31).
150 Future versions of GNU/Linux are planned to act as
151 per POSIX and BSD.
153 2020-01-15 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 This module is deprecated. Use gc-pbkdf2 instead.
155 2019-12-12 dfa Its API now uses ptrdiff_t instead of size_t.
157 2019-12-11 dfa To call dfamust, one must now call dfaparse
158 without yet calling dfacomp. This fixes a bug
159 introduced on 2018-10-22 that broke dfamust.
161 2019-12-07 xstrtol This module no longer defines the function
162 xstrtoll 'xstrtol_fatal'. Program that need this function
163 xstrtoimax should add the module 'xstrtol-error' to the list
164 xstrtoumax of imported modules.
166 2019-05-90 verify verify_true (deprecated 2011-06-15) is removed.
168 2019-03-16 fatal-signal The function that you pass to at_fatal_signal now
169 takes the signal as argument.
171 2019-02-02 c-strtod This and related modules no longer define
172 the HAVE_C99_STRTOLD macro. Programs requiring
173 standard strtold should use the strtold module.
175 2019-01-21 diacrit This module is deprecated. Please use the module
176 uninorm/canonical-decomposition instead.
178 2018-10-23 backupfile backup_file_rename and find_backup_file_name
179 now take an additional directory file descriptor
180 argument. Pass AT_FDCWD to get the old behavior.
182 2018-08-18 getpass The include file is changed from "getpass.h" to
183 getpass-gnu <unistd.h>.
185 2018-07-17 hard-locale m4/hard-locale.m4 and gl_HARD_LOCALE are removed.
187 2018-07-05 renameat2 This module is renamed to 'renameatu' and all
188 its include files and functions are renamed
189 accordingly.
191 2017-12-30 chdir-safer This module is removed. It was deprecated
192 on 2006-07-17.
194 2017-11-24 posixtm Previously, callers had to specify either
195 PDS_LEADING_YEAR or PDS_TRAILING_YEAR (but
196 not both). Now, callers should specify
197 only PDS_TRAILING_YEAR; leading years are
198 requested by not specifying PDS_TRAILING_YEAR.
200 2017-08-14 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to a nonzero
201 value instead of to 0, as the 'open' and
202 'openat' modules now emulate O_CLOEXEC.
204 2017-07-23 strftime This module is renamed to 'nstrftime'.
206 2017-05-19 closeout close_stdout longer closes stderr when addresses
207 are being sanitized, as the sanitizer outputs to
208 stderr afterwards.
210 2017-02-16 binary-io On MS-DOS and OS/2, set_binary_mode now fails
211 on ttys, and sets errno == EINVAL.
213 2017-01-20 parse-datetime The parse_datetime2 function now takes two
214 more arguments TZ and TZSTRING, for the
215 time zone and its name.
217 2017-01-16 host-cpu-c-abi On ARM platforms, HOST_CPU_C_ABI is now set to
218 'arm' or 'armhf' instead of 'armel'.
220 2017-01-15 localeinfo Change case_folded_counterparts's first arg's type
221 from wchar_t to wint_t, so it now accepts WEOF.
223 2016-12-17 getlogin The link requirements of these modules are changed
224 getlogin_r from empty to $(LIB_GETLOGIN).
226 2016-12-13 dfa Remove DFA_CASE_FOLD flag. Now based on RE_ICASE.
228 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmblen The function u32_strmblen can now return -1.
229 2016-11-17 unistr/u32-strmbtouc The function u32_strmbtouc can now return -1.
231 2016-08-17 stdbool This no longer supports _Bool for C++.
232 Programs intended to be portable to C++
233 compilers should use plain 'bool' instead.
235 2016-04-12 intprops The following macros were removed:
236 TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT
237 TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE
239 2015-09-25 c-ctype The following macros were removed:
240 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_DIGITS
241 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_LOWERCASE
242 C_CTYPE_CONSECUTIVE_UPPERCASE
244 2015-09-22 savewd SAVEWD_CHDIR_READABLE constant removed.
246 2015-07-24 fprintftime Exported functions' time zone arguments are now of
247 strftime type timezone_t (with NULL denoting UTC) instead of
248 type int (with nonzero denoting UTC). These
249 modules now depend on time_rz.
251 2015-04-24 acl This module no longer defines file_has_acl.
252 Use the new file-has-acl module for that.
253 Using only the latter module makes for fewer
254 link-time dependencies on GNU/Linux.
256 2015-04-15 acl If your project only uses the file_has_acl()
257 detection routine, then the requirements are
258 potentially reduced by using $LIB_HAS_ACL rather
259 than $LIB_ACL.
261 2015-04-03 hash hash_insert0 function removed (deprecated in 2011).
263 2014-10-29 obstack The obstack functions are no longer limited to
264 int sizes; size values are now of type size_t.
265 This changes both the ABI and the API.
266 obstack_blank no longer accepts a negative size to
267 shrink the current object; callers must now use
268 obstack_blank_fast with a "negative" (actually,
269 large positive) size for that.
271 2014-02-23 diffseq The members too_expensive, lo_minimal and hi_minimal
272 were removed from public structures, and the
273 find_minimal argument was removed from diag
274 and compareseq.
276 2014-02-11 savedir The savedir and streamsavedir functions have a
277 new argument specifying how to sort the result.
278 The fdsavedir function is removed.
280 2013-05-04 gnulib-tool CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
282 2013-02-08 careadlinkat This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
283 function.
285 2012-06-26 getopt-posix This module no longer guarantees that option
286 processing is resettable. If your code uses
287 'optreset' or 'optind = 0;', rewrite it to make
288 only one pass over the argument array.
290 2012-02-24 streq This module no longer provides the STREQ macro.
291 Use STREQ_OPT instead.
293 2012-01-10 ignore-value This module no longer provides the ignore_ptr
294 function. It was deprecated a year ago, but existed
295 so briefly before then that it never came into use.
296 Now, the ignore_value function does its job.
298 2011-11-18 hash This module deprecates the hash_insert0 function
299 using gcc's "deprecated" attribute. Use the better-
300 named hash_insert_if_absent equivalent.
302 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the mkdirat()
303 function. If you need this function, you now need
304 to request the 'mkdirat' module.
306 2011-11-04 openat This module no longer provides the fstatat()
307 function. If you need this function, you now need
308 to request the 'fstatat' module.
310 2011-11-03 openat This module no longer provides the unlinkat()
311 function. If you need this function, you now need
312 to request the 'unlinkat' module.
314 2011-11-02 openat This module no longer provides the fchmodat()
315 function. If you need this function, you now need
316 to request the 'fchmodat' module.
318 2011-11-01 alignof This module no longer provides the alignof() macro.
319 Use either alignof_slot() or alignof_type() instead.
321 2011-11-01 openat This module no longer provides the fchownat()
322 function. If you need this function, you now need
323 to request the 'fchownat' module.
325 2011-10-03 poll The link requirements of this module are changed
326 from empty to $(LIB_POLL).
328 2011-09-25 sys_stat This module no longer provides the fstat()
329 function. If you need this function, you now need
330 to request the 'fstat' module.
332 2011-09-23 signal This module is renamed to 'signal-h'.
334 2011-09-22 select The link requirements of this module are changed
335 from $(LIBSOCKET) to $(LIB_SELECT).
337 2011-09-12 fchdir This module no longer overrides the functions
338 opendir() and closedir(), unless the modules
339 'opendir' and 'closedir' are in use, respectively.
340 If you use opendir(), please use module 'opendir'.
341 If you use closedir(), please use module 'closedir'.
343 2011-08-04 pathmax The header file "pathmax.h" no longer defines
344 PATH_MAX on GNU/Hurd. Please use one of the methods
345 listed in pathmax.h to ensure your package is
346 portable to GNU/Hurd.
348 2011-07-24 close This module no longer pulls in the 'fclose' module.
349 If your code creates a socket descriptor using
350 socket() or accept(), then a FILE stream referring
351 to it using fdopen(), then in order to close this
352 stream, you need the 'fclose' module.
354 2011-07-12 arg-nonnull Renamed to snippet/arg-nonnull.
355 c++defs Renamed to snippet/c++defs.
356 link-warning Renamed to snippet/link-warning.
357 unused-parameter Renamed to snippet/unused-parameter.
358 warn-on-use Renamed to snippet/warn-on-use.
360 2011-06-15 verify verify_true (V) is deprecated; please use
361 verify_expr (V, 1) instead.
363 2011-06-05 ansi-c++-opt When a C++ compiler is not found, the variable CXX
364 is now set to "no", not to ":".
366 2011-05-11 group-member The include file is changed from "group-member.h"
367 to <unistd.h>.
369 2011-05-02 exit The module is removed. It was deprecated
370 on 2010-03-05. Use 'stdlib' directly instead.
372 2011-04-27 mgetgroups The 'xgetgroups' function has been split into
373 a new 'xgetgroups' module.
375 2011-04-27 save-cwd This module pulls in fewer dependencies by
376 default; to retain robust handling of directories
377 with an absolute name longer than PATH_MAX, you
378 must now explicitly include the 'getcwd' module.
380 2011-04-19 close-hook This module has been renamed to 'fd-hook' and
381 generalized.
383 2011-03-08 regex-quote The last argument is no longer an 'int cflags'
384 but instead a pointer to a previously constructed
385 'struct regex_quote_spec'.
387 2011-02-25 dirname These modules no longer put #defines for the
388 dirname-lgpl following symbols into <config.h>: ISSLASH,
389 backupfile FILE_SYSTEM_ACCEPTS_DRIVE_LETTER_PREFIX,
390 lstat FILE_SYSTEM_BACKSLASH_IS_FILE_NAME_SEPARATOR,
391 openat FILE_SYSTEM_DRIVE_PREFIX_CAN_BE_RELATIVE.
392 remove Applications that need ISSLASH can include the new
393 rmdir header dosname.h.
394 savewd
395 stat
396 unlink
398 2011-02-14 getloadavg This module no longer #defines C_GETLOADAVG or
399 HAVE_GETLOADAVG, as the application no longer needs
400 to worry about how getloadavg is defined. It no
401 longer defines the obsolete symbol NLIST_NAME_UNION
402 (which should have been internal to the module
403 anyway). Also, support for setgid use has been
404 removed, as nobody seems to be using it; thus
405 GETLOADAVG_PRIVILEGED is no longer #defined and
406 KMEM_GROUP and NEED_SETGID are no longer
407 substituted for.
409 2011-02-08 stdlib Unless the random_r module is also used, this
410 module no longer guarantees that the following are
411 defined: struct random_data, RAND_MAX, random_r,
412 srandom_r, initstate_r, setstate_r.
414 2011-02-08 wctype-h This module no longer provides the iswblank()
415 function. If you need this function, you now need
416 to request the 'iswblank' module.
418 2011-02-07 wctype This module is renamed to wctype-h.
420 2011-01-18 multiarch This no longer #defines AA_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD;
421 instead, use the shell var APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD.
423 2010-12-10 pipe This module is renamed to spawn-pipe. The include
424 file is renamed to "spawn-pipe.h".
426 2010-10-05 getdate This module is deprecated. Please use the new
427 parse-datetime module for the replacement
428 function parse_datetime(), or help us write
429 getdate-posix for getdate(). Also, the header
430 "getdate.h" has been renamed "parse-datetime.h",
431 and doc/getdate.texi to doc/parse-datetime.texi.
433 2010-09-29 sys_wait This module no longer provides the waitpid()
434 function. If you need this function, you now need
435 to request the 'waitpid' module.
437 2010-09-17 utimens The function gl_futimens is removed, and its
438 signature has been migrated to fdutimens. Callers
439 of gl_futimens should change function name, and
440 callers of fdutimens should swap parameter order.
442 2010-09-17 fdutimensat This function has a new signature: the fd now comes
443 first instead of the dir/name pair, and a new
444 atflag parameter is added at the end. Old code
445 should rearrange parameters, and pass 0 for atflag.
447 2010-09-13 regex The module is not guaranteeing anymore support for
448 64-bit regoff_t on 64-bit systems. The size of
449 regoff_t will always be 32-bit unless the program
450 is being configured --with-included-regex. This
451 may change again in the future once glibc provides
452 this feature as well.
454 2010-09-12 savedir The fdsavedir function is now deprecated.
456 2010-09-10 fcntl-h This module now defaults O_CLOEXEC to 0, and
457 it defaults O_EXEC and O_SEARCH to O_RDONLY.
458 Use "#if O_CLOEXEC" instead of "#ifdef O_CLOEXEC".
460 2010-08-28 realloc This module is deprecated. Use 'realloc-gnu'
461 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
463 2010-08-28 calloc This module is deprecated. Use 'calloc-gnu'
464 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
466 2010-08-28 malloc This module is deprecated. Use 'malloc-gnu'
467 instead. It will be removed 2012-01-01.
469 2010-08-14 memxfrm This module is renamed to amemxfrm. The include
470 file is renamed to "amemxfrm.h". The function is
471 renamed to amemxfrm.
473 2010-08-09 symlinkat This module now only provides symlinkat; use the
474 new module 'readlinkat' if needed.
476 2010-07-31 ansi-c++-opt If Autoconf >= 2.66 is used, the 'configure'
477 option is now called --disable-c++ rather than
478 --disable-cxx.
480 2010-04-02 maintainer-makefile
481 The macro _prohibit_regexp has been revamped into
482 a new macro _sc_search_regexp; custom syntax
483 checks in your cfg.mk will need to be rewritten.
485 2010-03-28 lib-ignore This module now provides a variable
486 IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES_CFLAGS that you should
487 add to LDFLAGS (when linking C programs only) or
488 CFLAGS yourself. It is no longer added to LDFLAGS
489 automatically.
491 2010-03-18 pty This module now only declares the pty.h header.
492 Use the new modules 'forkpty' or 'openpty' to
493 get the functions that were previously provided.
495 2010-03-05 exit This module is deprecated, use 'stdlib' directly
496 instead. It will be removed 2011-01-01.
498 2009-12-13 sublist The module does not define functions any more that
499 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations. Use
500 module 'xsublist' and include file "gl_xsublist.h"
501 instead.
503 2009-12-13 list The module does not define functions any more that
504 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
505 Use module 'xlist' and include file "gl_xlist.h"
506 instead.
508 2009-12-13 oset The module does not define functions any more that
509 call xalloc_die() in out-of-memory situations.
510 Use module 'xoset' and include file "gl_xoset.h"
511 instead.
513 2009-12-10 * Most source code files have been converted to
514 indentation by spaces (rather than tabs). Patches
515 of gnulib source code needs to be updated.
517 2009-12-09 link-warning The Makefile rules that use $(LINK_WARNING_H) now
518 must contain an explicit dependency on
519 $(LINK_WARNING_H).
521 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
522 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
523 effect except on very old platforms.
525 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
526 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
528 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
530 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
531 $(INET_PTON_LIB).
533 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
534 $(INET_NTOP_LIB).
536 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
537 $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME).
539 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
540 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
541 to <stdlib.h>.
543 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
544 rather than only defined to 1.
546 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
547 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
548 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
549 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
550 include <unistd.h>. For all other
551 functions provided by this module,
552 continue to include "openat.h".
554 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
555 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
556 iconv_t arguments.
558 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
559 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
561 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
562 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
563 "long options" and "options with optional
564 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
566 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
567 <stdio.h>.
569 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
570 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
571 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
572 The calling convention of the functions
573 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
575 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
576 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
577 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
578 The calling convention of the functions
579 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
581 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
582 The maint.mk file was copied from
583 coreutils, and the old
584 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
585 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
586 this will add several new checks. If some
587 new check is annoying, add the name of the
588 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
589 cfg.mk.
591 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
593 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
595 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
597 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
599 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
600 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
601 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
602 for it, like this:
603 errno = 0;
604 val = c_strtod (...);
605 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
606 xalloc_die ();
608 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
609 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
611 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
612 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
614 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
615 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
616 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
617 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
618 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
619 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
621 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
622 was removed.
624 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
625 <sys/stat.h>.
627 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
628 to <netdb.h>.
630 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
631 <math.h>.
632 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
633 <math.h>.
634 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
635 <math.h>.
637 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
638 <sys/stat.h>.
640 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
641 <dirent.h>.
643 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
644 to <unistd.h>.
646 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
647 to <unistd.h>.
649 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
650 $(LIBSOCKET).
652 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on 'select', introduced 2008-09-23,
653 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
654 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
655 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
656 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
658 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
659 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
660 socket descriptors are now compatible with
661 file descriptors. In general, this change
662 will simply improve your code's portability
663 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
664 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
665 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
666 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
667 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
668 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
670 This change does not remove the need to call
671 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
672 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
673 when you include the sys_socket module; while
674 the functionality will be restored soon, for
675 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
676 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
678 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
680 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
681 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
682 equivalent function, use function
683 xconcatenated_filename from module
684 'xconcat-filename'.
686 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
687 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
688 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
689 You may need to create a symbolic link for
690 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
691 installed in $prefix/lib.
693 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
694 to <string.h>.
696 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
697 to "glthread/lock.h".
698 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
699 to "glthread/tls.h".
701 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
702 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
703 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
705 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
706 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
707 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
708 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
710 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
711 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
712 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
713 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
715 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
716 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
717 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
718 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
719 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
721 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
723 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
724 to <arpa/inet.h>.
726 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
727 to <arpa/inet.h>.
729 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
730 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
732 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
733 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
734 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
735 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
737 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
738 implementations; clients that use controlled
739 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
740 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
741 module instead for smaller code size.
743 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
744 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
745 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
746 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
747 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
749 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
750 implementations; clients that use controlled
751 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
752 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
753 module instead for smaller code size.
755 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
756 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
757 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
758 module if you need it.
760 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
761 to <unistd.h>.
763 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
764 <strings.h>.
766 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
767 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
768 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
769 module description for the applicable license.
771 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
772 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
773 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
775 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
776 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
777 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
778 areadlink_with_size.
780 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
781 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
782 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
784 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
786 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
787 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
789 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
790 error to standard error; that is now the
791 caller's responsibility. It returns an
792 error code of type enum strtol_error
793 instead of the integer option value, and stores
794 the option value via a new int * argument.
795 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
796 are now an option name and option argument
797 instead of an option argument and a type string,
798 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
800 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
802 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
803 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
805 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
806 <wchar.h>.
808 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
809 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
811 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
812 <unistd.h>.
814 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
815 was renamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
816 renamed:
817 xallocsa -> xmalloca
819 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
820 was renamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
821 macros were renamed:
822 allocsa -> malloca
823 freesa -> freea
825 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
826 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
827 that has a different signature.
829 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
830 #include "sigprocmask.h"
831 with
832 #include <signal.h>
834 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
835 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
836 'long double' as a type exists.
838 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
839 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
840 des Renamed to crypto/des.
841 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
842 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
843 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
844 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
845 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
846 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
847 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
848 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
849 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
850 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
851 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
852 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
853 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
854 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
855 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
856 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
857 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
858 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
859 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
860 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
862 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
863 #include "vasprintf.h"
864 with
865 #include <stdio.h>
867 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
868 <search.h>.
870 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
871 to "unistr.h".
872 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
873 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
874 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
875 to "unistr.h".
876 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
877 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
878 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
879 to "unistr.h".
880 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
881 to "unistr.h".
883 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
884 iconv_string -> str_iconv
885 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
886 arguments)
888 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
889 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
890 carray-list You can pass NULL.
891 linked-list
892 linkedhash-list
893 avltree-list
894 rbtree-list
895 avltreehash-list
896 rbtreehash-list
898 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
899 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
900 avltree-oset
901 rbtree-oset
903 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
904 gc-des renamed:
906 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
907 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
908 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
909 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
910 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
911 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
912 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
913 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
914 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
915 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
916 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
918 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
919 using the "des" module directly.
921 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
922 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
923 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
925 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
926 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
927 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
928 #include "mkstemp.h"
929 with
930 #include <stdlib.h>
932 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
933 #include "strdup.h"
934 with
935 #include <string.h>
937 # This is for Emacs.
938 # Local Variables:
939 # coding: utf-8
940 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
941 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
942 # End: