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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
53 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
54 (report by Christian Ebert).
55 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
56 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
57 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
60 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
61 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
62 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
63 add bold for consistency with sgr,
64 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
65 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
66 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
68 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
69 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
70 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
71 line split after "%;".
72 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
73 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
76 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
77 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
78 + regenerated html manpages.
79 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
80 + updated some autoconf macros:
81 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
82 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
83 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
84 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
85 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
86 configuration (Redhat #911540).
87 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
88 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
91 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
92 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
94 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
95 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
97 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
98 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
99 of raw input in MinGW port.
102 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
103 + update config.guess, config.sub
106 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
108 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
110 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
111 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
112 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
113 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
114 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
115 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
116 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
118 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
119 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
122 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
123 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
125 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
126 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
127 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
130 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
131 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
132 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
135 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
136 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
137 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
139 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
140 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
141 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
142 by Dennis Grevenstein).
143 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
145 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
146 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
147 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
150 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
151 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
152 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
153 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
154 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
155 + improve error-checking in copywin
156 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
157 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
158 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
159 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
160 matching capability names.
161 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
162 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
163 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
166 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
167 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
168 are unused in the current driver model.
169 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
171 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
172 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
173 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
174 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
177 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
178 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
180 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
181 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
182 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
183 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
184 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
187 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
188 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
189 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
193 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
195 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
196 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
198 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
199 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
200 wide-character which can be used.
203 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
204 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
205 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
206 by Erwin Waterlander).
207 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
208 > fixes based on Coverity report:
209 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
210 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
211 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
212 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
216 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
217 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
218 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
219 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
220 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
221 > fixes based on Coverity report:
222 + remove a few redundant checks.
223 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
225 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
226 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
227 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
228 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
230 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
231 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
232 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
236 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
237 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
238 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
242 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
243 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
244 > fixes based on Coverity report:
245 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
248 > fixes based on Coverity report:
249 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
250 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
251 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
252 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
253 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
254 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
255 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
257 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
258 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
259 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
260 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
263 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
264 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
265 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
267 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
268 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
269 libraries or executables.
272 + realign these related pages:
277 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
278 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
279 (report by Reuben Thomas).
280 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
281 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
282 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
283 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
284 based on testing with tack -TD
285 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
286 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
289 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
291 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
292 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
293 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
296 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
300 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
301 (patch by Christian Persch).
304 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
306 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
307 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
308 has used that for a while.
309 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
310 for experimental use.
311 + remove unused configure macros.
312 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
313 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
314 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
315 + update config.guess, config.sub
318 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
319 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
320 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
321 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
322 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
323 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
324 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
327 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
328 to help with MinGW port.
331 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
333 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
336 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
339 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
340 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
341 might not be allocated.
342 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
345 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
346 initial screen-sizes.
347 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
348 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
352 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
353 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
357 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
358 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
359 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
361 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
362 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
365 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
366 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
367 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
368 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
369 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
370 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
371 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
375 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
376 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
377 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
378 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
379 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
380 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
381 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
382 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
386 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
387 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
388 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
389 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
390 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
391 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
394 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
398 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
400 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
402 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
403 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
404 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
405 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
406 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
407 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
410 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
412 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
413 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
414 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
416 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
417 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
420 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
421 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
422 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
425 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
426 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
428 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
429 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
431 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
432 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
435 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
437 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
438 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
439 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
440 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
441 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
442 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
445 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
446 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
447 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
448 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
449 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
450 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
451 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
452 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
453 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
455 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
456 analysis by Martin Husemann).
457 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
458 Onno van der Linden).
461 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
463 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
465 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
466 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
469 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
470 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
471 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
472 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
473 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
474 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
475 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
478 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
479 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
480 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
481 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
482 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
483 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
484 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
485 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
486 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
487 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
488 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
489 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
490 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
491 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
492 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
495 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
496 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
497 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
498 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
499 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
500 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
501 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
502 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
503 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
504 are interpreted as key definitions.
505 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
506 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
510 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
511 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
512 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
513 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
514 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
515 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
516 as building-blocks -TD
517 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
520 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
521 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
522 title is a status-line. -TD
523 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
524 of ordering and overrides -TD
525 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
526 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
527 used in that file -TD
530 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
531 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
532 definable capabilities.
533 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
534 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
535 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
536 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
537 embedded in the description.
538 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
539 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
540 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
541 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
542 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
543 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
546 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
547 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
548 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
549 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
551 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
552 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
553 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
556 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
557 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
558 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
559 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
560 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
561 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
564 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
565 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
566 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
568 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
569 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
570 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
571 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
574 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
575 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
576 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
579 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
580 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
581 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
583 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
584 calls to setupterm().
585 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
587 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
588 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
589 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
591 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
595 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
598 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
600 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
601 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
602 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
603 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
604 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
605 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
607 + update config.guess, config.sub
610 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
611 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
612 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
613 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
614 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
615 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
616 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
617 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
618 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
621 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
622 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
623 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
624 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
625 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
626 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
627 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
628 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
629 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
630 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
631 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
632 Linux versus most other systems.
635 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
639 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
640 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
641 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
642 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
643 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
644 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
645 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
646 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
647 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
648 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
649 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
650 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
651 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
652 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
655 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
657 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
659 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
660 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
661 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
662 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
665 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
667 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
668 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
669 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
670 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
671 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
673 + regenerated html manpages.
676 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
677 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
678 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
679 + change recommended regular expression library.
680 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
681 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
684 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
685 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
686 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
687 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
688 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
689 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
690 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
694 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
695 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
697 + add putty-sco entry -TD
700 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
702 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
704 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
705 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
706 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
708 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
710 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
713 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
714 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
715 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
716 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
718 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
719 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
720 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
723 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
724 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
726 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
729 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
731 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
733 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
735 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
736 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
737 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
738 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
739 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
740 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
741 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
744 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
745 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
747 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
748 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
749 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
750 database (cf: 20111001).
753 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
754 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
755 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
757 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
758 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
760 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
761 in older FreeBSD machines.
762 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
763 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
764 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
767 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
768 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
769 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
770 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
771 root's home directory.
772 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
773 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
774 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
775 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
776 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
778 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
779 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
780 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
781 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
782 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
783 (report by Peter Kruse).
786 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
787 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
789 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
791 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
792 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
793 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
796 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
797 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
798 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
799 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
800 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
801 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
804 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
805 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
806 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
807 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
808 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
811 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
812 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
813 input and output of termcap source.
814 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
815 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
816 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
817 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
818 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
819 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
820 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
821 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
822 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
825 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
828 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
830 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
831 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
832 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
833 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
835 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
838 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
839 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
841 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
842 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
845 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
846 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
848 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
849 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
851 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
852 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
853 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
854 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
856 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
857 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
858 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
859 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
861 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
862 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
865 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
866 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
867 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
868 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
871 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
872 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
873 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
874 + add terminator entry -TD
875 + add simpleterm entry -TD
876 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
877 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
881 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
882 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
883 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
884 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
885 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
886 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
887 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
888 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
889 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
890 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
894 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
895 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
896 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
897 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
898 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
899 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
901 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
902 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
903 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
905 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
908 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
909 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
910 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
911 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
913 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
914 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
916 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
917 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
918 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
919 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
920 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
921 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
922 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
923 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
925 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
926 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
928 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
929 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
930 tctest (cf: 19991211).
931 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
932 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
933 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
934 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
935 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
936 translating to termcap.
937 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
938 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
941 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
942 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
943 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
944 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
945 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
946 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
948 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
949 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
950 regarding Schilling's test program):
951 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
952 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
953 + use \040 rather than \s
954 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
955 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
958 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
959 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
960 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
961 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
962 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
963 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
964 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
965 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
966 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
967 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
968 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
969 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
972 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
973 are not used in the $CC variable.
974 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
975 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
976 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
977 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
978 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
979 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
982 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
983 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
987 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
988 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
989 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
990 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
991 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
993 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
994 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
996 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
999 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1000 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1003 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1004 + set default prefix to /usr.
1005 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1006 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1007 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1008 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1011 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1012 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1013 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1014 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1016 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1017 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1021 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1024 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1025 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1026 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1028 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1029 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1030 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1031 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1034 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1035 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1036 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1037 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1038 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1039 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1040 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1041 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1042 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1043 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1044 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1047 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1048 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1050 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1051 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1052 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1053 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1056 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1057 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1058 as different types on some Unix systems.
1059 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1060 function pointer passed to tputs().
1061 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1062 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1063 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1064 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1067 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1068 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1069 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1070 + update config.guess, config.sub
1073 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1075 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1076 some ncurses packages.
1077 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1078 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1079 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1081 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1084 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1085 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1086 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1087 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1088 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1089 needed for rpm script.
1090 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1091 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1092 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1095 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1096 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1097 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1098 that sample program.
1099 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1100 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1101 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1102 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1106 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1108 + regen Ada html documentation.
1109 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1110 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1112 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1114 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1115 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1116 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1117 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1118 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1119 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1121 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1122 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1124 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1125 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1128 + regen Ada html documentation.
1129 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1130 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1132 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1133 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1134 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1135 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1136 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1137 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1138 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1139 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1140 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1141 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1142 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1143 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1144 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1145 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1146 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1147 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1148 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1149 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1150 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1153 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1154 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1155 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1157 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1159 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1160 explain.txt is not found.
1163 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1164 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1165 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1166 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1167 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1169 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1172 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1173 + regenerated html manpages.
1174 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1176 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1177 a new install of hashed database.
1178 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1181 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1182 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1183 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1184 wide-character configuration.
1185 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1186 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1189 + regenerated html manpages.
1190 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1191 special case of trace configuration.
1194 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1195 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1196 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1197 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1198 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1202 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1203 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1204 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1205 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1206 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1208 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1209 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1212 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1213 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1214 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1215 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1216 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1217 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1218 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1219 file configuration if that is used.
1220 + update config.guess, config.sub
1223 + regenerated html manpages.
1224 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1226 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1227 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1230 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1231 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1234 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1235 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1236 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1239 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1241 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1242 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1243 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1244 wide-character configuration.
1245 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1246 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1247 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1250 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1251 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1252 version which works with termcap.
1253 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1254 (request by Sven Joachim).
1255 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1256 (report by Sven Joachim).
1259 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1260 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1261 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1264 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1266 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1267 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1270 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1272 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1273 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1274 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1275 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1276 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1277 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1281 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1282 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1283 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1285 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1288 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1290 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1294 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1296 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1297 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1298 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1299 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1300 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1301 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1302 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1303 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1304 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1305 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1306 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1307 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1310 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1311 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1312 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1313 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1314 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1315 external package "cindent".
1318 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1319 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1320 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1321 inconsistent printer-controls.
1322 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1323 form is available -TD
1324 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1326 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1328 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1329 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1330 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1331 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1332 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1334 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1335 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1339 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1340 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1341 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1342 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1343 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1345 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1348 + regenerated html manpages.
1349 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1350 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1351 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1354 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1356 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1357 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1358 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1359 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1363 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1364 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1367 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1368 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1369 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1370 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1371 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1372 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1373 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1377 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1378 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1379 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1380 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1381 by Tim van der Molen).
1382 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1383 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1384 library configuration.
1385 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1386 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1387 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1390 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1392 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1393 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1394 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1395 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1396 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1399 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1400 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1401 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1402 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1403 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1404 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1405 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1406 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1409 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1410 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1411 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1412 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1413 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1414 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1415 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1416 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1419 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1420 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1421 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1422 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1425 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1426 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1427 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1430 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1431 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1432 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1435 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1436 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1437 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1438 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1441 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1442 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1443 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1445 + update Ada95/configure.
1446 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1447 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1448 of updating LIBS variable.
1451 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1452 work with 64-bit compiles.
1453 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1457 + regenerated html documentation.
1458 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1460 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1461 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1462 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1463 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1466 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1467 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1469 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1470 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1471 build- and target-machines differ.
1472 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1473 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1475 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1476 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1479 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1480 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1481 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1482 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1483 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1484 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1485 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1486 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1487 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1488 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1489 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1490 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1491 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1492 found in predefined libraries.
1493 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1496 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1497 (patch by David Benjamin).
1498 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1499 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1500 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1501 may be defined by that route.
1504 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1505 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1506 the predefined include directories.
1507 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1508 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1509 where older versions would produce an error.
1512 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1513 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1514 terminfo to termcap strings
1515 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1516 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1517 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1518 directory was already added.
1519 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1520 directories (which will be ignored).
1523 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1524 + discard motion events
1525 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1526 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1527 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1528 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1531 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1532 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1533 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1534 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1535 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1536 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1537 extended-colors configuration.
1538 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1539 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1540 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1543 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1545 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1546 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1547 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1549 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1550 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1551 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1554 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1555 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1559 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1560 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1561 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1562 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1563 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1564 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1565 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1566 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1567 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1571 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1572 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1573 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1574 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1577 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1579 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1580 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1581 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1584 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1585 making those separately distributable.
1586 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1587 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1591 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1594 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1595 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1596 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1597 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1601 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1602 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1603 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1604 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1607 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1608 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1609 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1610 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1612 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1613 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1614 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1615 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1619 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1620 that line-drawing works.
1621 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1622 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1623 capabilities can run.
1624 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1628 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1629 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1630 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1631 before older in the list.
1632 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1633 + minor documentation cleanup.
1634 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1635 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1636 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1639 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1640 most common case of SGR 0.
1641 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1642 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1643 events remain, it will return ERR.
1646 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1647 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1648 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1649 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1650 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1653 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1654 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1655 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1658 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1659 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1660 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1661 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1662 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1663 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1666 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1667 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1668 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1669 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1670 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1672 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1674 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1676 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1677 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1678 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1680 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1681 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1684 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1685 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1687 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1688 writing terminfo entries.
1689 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1690 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1691 by Nicholas Marriott).
1694 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1696 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1697 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1701 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1702 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1703 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1704 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1705 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1709 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1710 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1711 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1712 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1715 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1716 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1717 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1718 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1719 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1720 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1721 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1724 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1725 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1726 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1727 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1728 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1729 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1730 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1731 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1732 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1733 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1734 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1737 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1738 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1739 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1740 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1743 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1744 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1747 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1748 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1749 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1753 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1754 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1755 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1756 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1757 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1759 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1760 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1763 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1764 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1765 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1766 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1767 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1768 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1770 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1771 library (some work remains for forms library).
1774 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1775 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1776 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1777 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1779 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1780 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1781 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1782 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1785 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1786 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1789 test/test_addchstr.c
1790 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1791 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1792 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1793 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1796 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1798 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1799 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1800 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1801 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1805 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1806 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1807 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1808 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1811 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1812 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1813 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1816 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1819 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1820 broken in 20090509 merging.
1821 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1822 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1823 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1824 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1825 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1826 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1827 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1828 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1830 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1833 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1834 implementation details of hash function.
1837 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1838 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1839 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1842 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1843 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1844 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1845 test/demo_terminfo.c
1846 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1847 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1850 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1851 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1855 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1858 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1860 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1861 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1862 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1863 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1864 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1866 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1867 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1868 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1871 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1872 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1873 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1876 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1877 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1879 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1882 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1883 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1885 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1886 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1890 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1891 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1892 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1895 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1898 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1901 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1902 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1903 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1904 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1907 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1910 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1911 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1912 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1913 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1917 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1920 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1921 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1924 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1927 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1931 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1934 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1935 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1936 part of the form library.
1939 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1940 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
1943 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
1944 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
1945 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
1946 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
1947 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
1948 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
1949 a temporary variable.
1950 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
1951 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
1952 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
1953 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
1954 with Charles Wilson).
1955 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
1956 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
1957 > patches by Charles Wilson:
1958 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
1959 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
1960 digits, after the final '.').
1961 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
1962 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
1963 using that in the libtool link-commands.
1964 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
1965 from 2009031 changes.
1966 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
1967 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
1968 termlib) is to be linked.
1969 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
1970 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
1973 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
1974 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1975 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
1976 (report by Charles Wilson).
1977 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
1978 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1979 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
1980 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
1981 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
1984 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
1985 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
1986 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
1987 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
1988 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
1990 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1991 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
1992 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
1993 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
1994 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
1995 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
1996 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
1997 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2000 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2001 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2002 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2005 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2008 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2010 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2011 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2012 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2013 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2014 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2017 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2018 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2019 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2020 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2021 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2022 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2025 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2026 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2028 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2029 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2030 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2033 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2034 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2035 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2036 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2037 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2038 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2039 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2040 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2041 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2044 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2045 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2047 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2049 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2050 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2053 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2055 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2056 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2057 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2058 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2061 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2062 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2063 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2065 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2066 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2069 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2070 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2071 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2072 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2073 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2074 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2076 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2077 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2079 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2080 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2083 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2084 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2085 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2088 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2089 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2090 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2092 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2093 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2096 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2098 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2099 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2100 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2102 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2103 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2104 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2105 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2106 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2107 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2109 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2110 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2113 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2114 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2115 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2116 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2117 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2118 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2119 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2120 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2121 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2122 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2123 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2126 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2127 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2128 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2129 passing color or video attributes.
2130 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2131 display meta-characters.
2132 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2133 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2134 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2135 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2139 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2140 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2141 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2143 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2146 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2148 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2149 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2151 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2154 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2155 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2156 does not work well on that platform).
2157 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2160 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2161 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2162 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2164 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2165 --disable-database is used.
2166 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2167 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2168 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2169 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2173 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2174 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2175 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2176 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2177 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2178 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2179 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2183 + regenerated html documentation.
2184 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2185 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2186 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2187 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2188 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2189 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2190 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2191 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2194 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2195 works for C/C++ parts).
2196 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2197 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2200 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2201 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2202 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2203 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2204 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2205 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2206 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2207 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2208 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2210 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2211 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2212 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2213 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2214 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2215 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2218 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2219 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2222 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2223 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2224 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2225 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2226 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2227 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2230 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2231 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2234 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2238 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2239 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2240 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2241 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2243 + update test/configure script.
2244 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2245 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2246 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2247 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2248 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2251 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2252 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2254 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2256 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2257 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2258 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2259 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2260 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2261 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2262 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2263 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2264 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2267 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2268 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2269 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2270 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2271 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2272 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2273 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2274 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2275 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2276 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2277 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2281 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2282 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2283 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2284 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2285 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2287 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2288 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2289 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2290 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2291 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2294 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2295 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2296 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2297 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2298 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2299 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2300 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2303 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2307 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2310 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2313 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2314 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2316 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2317 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2318 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2322 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2323 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2325 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2326 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2327 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2328 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2331 + regenerated html documentation.
2332 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2333 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2334 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2335 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2336 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2339 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2340 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2341 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2345 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2346 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2347 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2348 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2349 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2350 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2353 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2354 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2356 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2357 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2358 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2359 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2360 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2361 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2362 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2363 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2364 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2367 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2368 screen which must be updated.
2369 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2370 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2371 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2375 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2376 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2378 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2379 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2380 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2381 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2384 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2385 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2386 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2388 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2392 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2393 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2394 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2397 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2398 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2399 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2400 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2403 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2404 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2406 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2408 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2411 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2412 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2413 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2414 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2415 python-dev2 mailing list).
2418 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2419 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2420 are not associated with a particular screen.
2421 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2422 stdscr to the callback function.
2423 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2424 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2425 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2426 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2427 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2428 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2429 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2433 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2434 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2435 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2436 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2438 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2439 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2440 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2441 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2442 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2445 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2446 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2447 that the 'F' accepts.
2448 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2449 are working concurrently.
2450 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2454 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2455 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2456 _nc_free_and_exit().
2459 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2460 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2463 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2464 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2467 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2468 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2469 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2470 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2473 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2474 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2475 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2476 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2477 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2478 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2480 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2481 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2485 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2486 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2487 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2490 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2491 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2492 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2495 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2496 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2497 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2501 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2502 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2503 "link_test" builds properly.
2504 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2505 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2506 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2507 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2508 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2509 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2510 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2512 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2515 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2519 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2520 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2523 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2525 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2526 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2527 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2530 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2531 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2532 pierre4d2 comments).
2533 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2534 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2535 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2536 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2540 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2541 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2542 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2543 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2544 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2546 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2547 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2548 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2552 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2553 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2556 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2558 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2560 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2564 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2565 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2567 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2568 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2569 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2570 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2571 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2573 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2574 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2577 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2578 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2579 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2580 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2583 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2584 calls within the ncurses library.
2585 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2587 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2588 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2589 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2591 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2592 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2593 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2594 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2595 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2598 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2599 for threaded library (incomplete).
2600 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2601 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2605 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2606 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2607 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2608 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2609 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2610 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2611 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2612 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2613 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2616 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2618 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2619 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2622 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2623 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2624 "\0" followed by a digit.
2625 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2626 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2627 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2628 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2629 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2630 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2631 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2632 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2633 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2636 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2637 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2638 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2639 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2640 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2642 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2643 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2644 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2648 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2649 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2650 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2651 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2652 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2653 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2654 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2655 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2656 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2659 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2660 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2661 + add test/test_getstr.c
2662 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2663 + add test/test_instr.c
2666 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2667 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2668 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2672 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2673 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2674 ".log" to the name and try again.
2675 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2676 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2677 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2678 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2679 --disable-echo option is used.
2680 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2681 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
2682 + update config.guess, config.sub
2685 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2686 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2687 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2691 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2692 problems with multi-column characters.
2693 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2694 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2695 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2696 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2697 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2698 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2699 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2702 + add test/demo_panels.c
2703 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2706 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2708 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2709 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2712 + add test/key_name.c
2713 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2714 + update test/configure
2715 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2716 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2717 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2721 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2722 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2723 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2724 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2725 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2726 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2727 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2728 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2729 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2732 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2733 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2734 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2735 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2736 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2737 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2740 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2741 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2743 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2744 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2745 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2746 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2749 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2750 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2751 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2752 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2754 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2756 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2757 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2758 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2759 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2760 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2763 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2764 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2766 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2767 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2768 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2769 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2770 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2771 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2772 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2773 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2774 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2775 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2776 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2779 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2780 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2781 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2782 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2783 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2784 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2785 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2788 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2789 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2790 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2791 Ada95 tree is not built.
2794 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2795 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2796 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2797 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2798 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2799 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2801 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2802 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2803 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2804 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2805 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2806 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2807 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2808 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2809 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2810 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2811 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2812 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2813 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2814 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2815 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2816 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2817 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2818 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2819 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2821 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2822 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2823 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2824 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2825 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2826 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2827 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2828 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2829 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2832 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2833 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2834 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2835 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2836 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2837 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2838 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2839 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2843 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2844 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2845 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2846 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2847 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2851 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2852 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2853 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2854 in the configure script to an error.
2855 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2856 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2857 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2858 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2859 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2861 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2862 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2865 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2866 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2869 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2870 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2872 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2873 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2874 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2875 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2876 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2877 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2878 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2879 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2882 + regenerated html documentation.
2883 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2884 opaque in selected configurations.
2885 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2886 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2887 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2888 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2889 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2890 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2891 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2892 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2893 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2894 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2895 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2897 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2898 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2901 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2902 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2903 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2904 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2905 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2906 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2907 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2908 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2909 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2910 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2911 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2912 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2915 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2917 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2918 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2919 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2921 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2922 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2923 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2924 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2925 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2926 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2927 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2928 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2930 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2931 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2934 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2935 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2937 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
2939 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
2940 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
2941 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
2944 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
2945 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
2946 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
2947 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
2949 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
2950 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
2951 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
2952 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
2953 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
2954 no longer relies on it.
2955 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
2956 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
2957 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
2960 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
2961 (report by Rong-En Fan).
2964 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
2965 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
2966 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
2967 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
2968 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2969 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2970 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
2971 its license consistent with ncurses.
2972 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
2973 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
2974 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
2977 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
2978 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
2979 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
2980 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
2984 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
2985 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
2986 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
2988 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
2989 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2992 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
2993 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
2994 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2997 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2998 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2999 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3000 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3001 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3002 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3003 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3004 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3005 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3006 to manpages as needed.
3007 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3008 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3011 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3012 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3013 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3014 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3015 + update config.guess, config.sub
3017 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3020 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3021 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3022 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3023 correct nor portable.
3024 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3026 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3027 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3031 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3032 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3033 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3034 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3035 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3036 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3039 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3040 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3041 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3042 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3044 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3045 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3046 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3047 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3048 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3049 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3050 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3051 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3054 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3055 database configuration.
3056 + updates for test/configure script.
3057 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3058 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3060 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3061 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3062 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3063 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3065 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3066 _nc_printf_string().
3067 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3068 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3071 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3072 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3074 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3075 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3079 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3080 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3083 + add test/echochar.c
3084 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3085 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3088 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3089 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3090 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3091 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3094 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3095 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3096 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3098 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3099 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3100 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3101 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3102 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3103 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3104 Ralf S Engelschall).
3105 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3106 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3107 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3108 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3111 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3112 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3113 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3116 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3117 and status line (Alain Bench).
3118 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3119 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3120 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3121 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3124 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3125 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3126 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3127 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3128 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3131 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3132 + updated html documentation.
3133 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3134 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3137 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3138 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3139 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3140 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3141 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3142 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3143 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3144 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3145 by report by Christopher Parker).
3149 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3150 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3151 since it does not really do this -TD
3154 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3155 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3156 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3157 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3160 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3161 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3162 embedded into a termcap description.
3163 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3164 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3165 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3166 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3167 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3170 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3172 + add test/foldkeys.c
3175 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3176 source output (Debian #378783).
3177 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3178 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3179 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3180 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3181 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3182 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3185 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3186 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3187 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3190 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3191 or as a text file if those are not available.
3192 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3193 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3194 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3197 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3198 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3199 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3200 + update config.guess, config.sub
3203 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3204 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3205 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3207 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3208 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3210 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3211 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3212 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3213 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3214 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3215 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3217 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3218 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3219 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3220 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3223 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3224 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3228 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3229 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3231 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3232 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3233 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3234 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3235 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3236 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3239 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3240 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3241 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3242 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3243 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3244 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3245 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3246 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3247 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3248 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3251 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3252 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3253 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3254 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3256 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3259 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3260 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3261 + minor copyright fixes.
3262 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3265 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3266 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3267 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3268 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3269 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3270 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3271 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3272 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3274 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3275 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3276 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3277 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3279 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3282 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3283 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3285 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3286 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3287 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3288 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3290 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3291 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3292 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3293 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3296 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3297 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3298 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3299 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3300 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3301 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3302 + update config.guess, config.sub
3303 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3304 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3305 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3306 function is broken in that implementation.
3309 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3310 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3313 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3314 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3316 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3317 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3319 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3320 reported to implement this feature -TD
3323 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3324 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3327 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3328 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3329 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3330 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3331 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3332 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3333 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3334 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3337 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3338 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3340 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3341 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3344 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3345 (report by Alain Bench).
3346 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3347 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3348 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3349 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3351 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3352 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3353 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3357 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3358 and/or video attributes.
3359 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3360 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3363 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3366 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3367 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3368 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3369 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3370 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3371 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3372 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3373 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3374 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3377 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3378 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3379 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3382 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3383 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3384 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3385 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3386 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3387 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3388 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3389 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3390 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3391 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3394 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3395 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3396 rather than delayed.
3397 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3399 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3400 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3401 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3404 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3406 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3407 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3410 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3411 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3414 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3415 + suppress line-drawing
3416 + implement max_attributes
3418 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3419 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3423 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3424 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3426 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3428 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3429 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3430 etc., when allocating screens.
3433 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3434 this in test/filter.c
3435 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3439 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3440 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3441 + add extension nofilter().
3442 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3443 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3444 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
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