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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 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
50 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
51 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
54 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
55 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
56 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
57 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
60 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
62 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
63 simplify later merging:
64 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
65 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
66 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
67 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
68 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
72 + update config.guess, config.sub from
73 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
76 + modify configure script:
77 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
78 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
79 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
80 + improve initialization for MinGW port (patch by Juergen Pfeifer):
81 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
82 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
83 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
84 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
86 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
87 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
90 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
91 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
92 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
93 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
94 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
95 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
99 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
102 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
103 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
104 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
105 + add terminology entry -TD
106 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
107 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
110 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
111 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
112 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
113 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
114 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
118 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
119 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
120 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
121 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
122 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
125 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
128 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
129 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
130 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
134 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
135 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
136 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
137 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
138 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
139 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
141 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
142 html emitted by docbook.
145 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
146 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
147 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
148 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
151 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
152 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
153 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
154 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
155 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
156 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
159 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
160 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
161 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
162 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
165 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
166 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
169 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
171 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
174 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
175 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
176 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
177 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
179 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
181 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
182 + updated llib-l* files.
185 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
186 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
190 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
194 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
195 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
196 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
197 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
198 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
199 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
200 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
201 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
202 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
203 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
204 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
205 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
206 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
207 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
209 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
211 + update config.sub from
212 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
215 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
218 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
219 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
220 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
221 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
223 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
226 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
227 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
228 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
229 them more consistent with other packages.
232 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
233 compiling ncurses-examples.
234 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
237 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
240 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
241 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
242 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
243 cross-compiles to MinGW.
244 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
248 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
249 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
253 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
254 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
256 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
258 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
259 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
260 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
261 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
262 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
265 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
266 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
267 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
270 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
272 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
273 before/after Debian #700177.
274 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
275 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
277 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
278 of sort, improving portability.
279 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
280 + update config.guess, config.sub from
281 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
284 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
285 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
287 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
288 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
289 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
292 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
293 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
294 introduced by Debian #700177.
295 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
296 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
299 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
300 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
302 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
303 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
304 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
307 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
308 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
310 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
311 cross-compile support packages.
312 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
315 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
316 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
317 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
318 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
319 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
320 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
321 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
322 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
323 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
324 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
325 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
326 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
329 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
330 initialization of cur_term.
333 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
334 + minor compiler-warning fixes
337 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
338 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
339 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
340 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
341 --enable-auto-import flag.
342 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
346 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
347 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
348 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
349 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
350 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
352 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
353 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
354 (patch by Eric Raymond).
357 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
358 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
359 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
361 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
362 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
363 not printing the full pathname of the program.
364 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
365 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
366 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
369 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
370 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
372 + add test/dots_termcap.c
373 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
374 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
375 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
376 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
377 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
378 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
379 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
380 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
381 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
383 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
384 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
387 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
388 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
389 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
390 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
391 the left margin of the display.
392 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
393 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
394 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
395 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
398 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
399 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
400 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
401 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
402 + regenerated html manpages.
403 + update doctype used for html documentation.
406 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
407 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
408 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
409 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
410 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
411 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
414 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
415 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
416 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
417 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
418 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
421 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
422 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
425 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
426 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
427 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
428 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
429 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
431 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
432 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
433 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
434 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
437 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
438 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
439 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
440 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
442 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
444 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
446 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
449 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
453 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
454 (report by Christian Ebert).
455 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
456 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
457 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
460 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
461 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
462 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
463 add bold for consistency with sgr,
464 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
465 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
466 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
468 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
469 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
470 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
471 line split after "%;".
472 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
473 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
476 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
477 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
478 + regenerated html manpages.
479 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
480 + updated some autoconf macros:
481 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
482 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
483 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
484 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
485 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
486 configuration (Redhat #911540).
487 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
488 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
491 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
492 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
494 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
495 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
497 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
498 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
499 of raw input in MinGW port.
502 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
503 + update config.guess, config.sub
506 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
508 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
510 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
511 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
512 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
513 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
514 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
515 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
516 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
518 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
519 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
522 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
523 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
525 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
526 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
527 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
530 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
531 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
532 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
535 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
536 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
537 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
539 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
540 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
541 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
542 by Dennis Grevenstein).
543 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
545 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
546 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
547 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
550 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
551 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
552 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
553 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
554 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
555 + improve error-checking in copywin
556 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
557 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
558 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
559 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
560 matching capability names.
561 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
562 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
563 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
566 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
567 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
568 are unused in the current driver model.
569 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
571 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
572 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
573 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
574 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
577 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
578 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
580 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
581 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
582 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
583 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
584 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
587 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
588 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
589 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
593 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
595 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
596 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
598 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
599 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
600 wide-character which can be used.
603 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
604 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
605 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
606 by Erwin Waterlander).
607 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
608 > fixes based on Coverity report:
609 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
610 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
611 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
612 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
616 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
617 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
618 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
619 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
620 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
621 > fixes based on Coverity report:
622 + remove a few redundant checks.
623 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
625 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
626 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
627 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
628 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
630 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
631 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
632 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
636 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
637 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
638 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
642 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
643 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
644 > fixes based on Coverity report:
645 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
648 > fixes based on Coverity report:
649 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
650 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
651 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
652 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
653 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
654 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
655 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
657 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
658 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
659 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
660 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
663 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
664 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
665 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
667 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
668 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
669 libraries or executables.
672 + realign these related pages:
677 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
678 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
679 (report by Reuben Thomas).
680 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
681 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
682 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
683 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
684 based on testing with tack -TD
685 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
686 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
689 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
691 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
692 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
693 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
696 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
700 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
701 (patch by Christian Persch).
704 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
706 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
707 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
708 has used that for a while.
709 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
710 for experimental use.
711 + remove unused configure macros.
712 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
713 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
714 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
715 + update config.guess, config.sub
718 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
719 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
720 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
721 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
722 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
723 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
724 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
727 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
728 to help with MinGW port.
731 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
733 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
736 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
739 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
740 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
741 might not be allocated.
742 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
745 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
746 initial screen-sizes.
747 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
748 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
752 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
753 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
757 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
758 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
759 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
761 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
762 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
765 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
766 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
767 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
768 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
769 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
770 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
771 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
775 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
776 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
777 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
778 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
779 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
780 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
781 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
782 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
786 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
787 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
788 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
789 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
790 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
791 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
794 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
798 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
800 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
802 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
803 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
804 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
805 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
806 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
807 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
810 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
812 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
813 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
814 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
816 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
817 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
820 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
821 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
822 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
825 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
826 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
828 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
829 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
831 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
832 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
835 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
837 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
838 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
839 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
840 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
841 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
842 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
845 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
846 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
847 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
848 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
849 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
850 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
851 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
852 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
853 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
855 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
856 analysis by Martin Husemann).
857 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
858 Onno van der Linden).
861 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
863 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
865 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
866 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
869 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
870 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
871 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
872 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
873 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
874 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
875 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
878 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
879 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
880 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
881 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
882 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
883 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
884 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
885 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
886 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
887 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
888 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
889 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
890 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
891 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
892 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
895 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
896 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
897 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
898 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
899 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
900 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
901 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
902 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
903 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
904 are interpreted as key definitions.
905 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
906 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
910 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
911 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
912 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
913 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
914 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
915 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
916 as building-blocks -TD
917 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
920 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
921 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
922 title is a status-line. -TD
923 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
924 of ordering and overrides -TD
925 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
926 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
927 used in that file -TD
930 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
931 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
932 definable capabilities.
933 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
934 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
935 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
936 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
937 embedded in the description.
938 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
939 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
940 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
941 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
942 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
943 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
946 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
947 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
948 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
949 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
951 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
952 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
953 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
956 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
957 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
958 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
959 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
960 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
961 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
964 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
965 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
966 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
968 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
969 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
970 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
971 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
974 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
975 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
976 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
979 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
980 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
981 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
983 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
984 calls to setupterm().
985 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
987 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
988 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
989 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
991 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
995 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
998 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1000 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1001 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1002 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1003 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1004 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1005 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1007 + update config.guess, config.sub
1010 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1011 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1012 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1013 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1014 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1015 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1016 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1017 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1018 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1021 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1022 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1023 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1024 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1025 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1026 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1027 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1028 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1029 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1030 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1031 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1032 Linux versus most other systems.
1035 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1039 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1040 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1041 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1042 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1043 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1044 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1045 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1046 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1047 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1048 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1049 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1050 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1051 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1052 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1055 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1057 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1059 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1060 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1061 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1062 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1065 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1067 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1068 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1069 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1070 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1071 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1073 + regenerated html manpages.
1076 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1077 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1078 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1079 + change recommended regular expression library.
1080 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1081 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1084 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1085 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1086 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1087 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1088 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1089 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1090 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1094 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1095 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1097 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1100 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1102 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1104 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1105 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1106 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1108 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1110 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1113 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1114 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1115 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1116 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1118 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1119 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1120 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1123 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1124 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1126 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1129 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1131 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1133 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1135 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1136 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1137 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1138 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1139 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1140 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1141 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1144 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1145 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1147 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1148 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1149 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1150 database (cf: 20111001).
1153 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1154 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1155 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1157 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1158 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1160 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1161 in older FreeBSD machines.
1162 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1163 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1164 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1167 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1168 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1169 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1170 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1171 root's home directory.
1172 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1173 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1174 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1175 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1176 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1178 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1179 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1180 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1181 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1182 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1183 (report by Peter Kruse).
1186 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1187 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1189 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1191 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1192 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1193 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1196 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1197 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1198 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1199 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1200 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1201 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1204 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1205 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1206 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1207 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1208 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1211 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1212 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1213 input and output of termcap source.
1214 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1215 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1216 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1217 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1218 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1219 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1220 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1221 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1222 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1225 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1228 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1230 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1231 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1232 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1233 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1235 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1238 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1239 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1241 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1242 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1245 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1246 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1248 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1249 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1251 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1252 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1253 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1254 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1256 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1257 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1258 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1259 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1261 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1262 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1265 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1266 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1267 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1268 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1271 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1272 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1273 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1274 + add terminator entry -TD
1275 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1276 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1277 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1281 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1282 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1283 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1284 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1285 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1286 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1287 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1288 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1289 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1290 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1294 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1295 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1296 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1297 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1298 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1299 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1301 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1302 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1303 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1305 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1308 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1309 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1310 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1311 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1313 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1314 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1316 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1317 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1318 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1319 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1320 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1321 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1322 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1323 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1325 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1326 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1328 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1329 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1330 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1331 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1332 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1333 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1334 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1335 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1336 translating to termcap.
1337 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1338 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1341 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1342 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1343 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1344 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1345 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1346 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1348 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1349 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1350 regarding Schilling's test program):
1351 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1352 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1353 + use \040 rather than \s
1354 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1355 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1358 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1359 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1360 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1361 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1362 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1363 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1364 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1365 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1366 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1367 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1368 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1369 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1372 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1373 are not used in the $CC variable.
1374 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1375 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1376 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1377 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1378 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1379 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1382 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1383 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1387 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1388 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1389 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1390 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1391 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1393 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1394 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1396 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1399 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1400 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1403 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1404 + set default prefix to /usr.
1405 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1406 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1407 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1408 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1411 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1412 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1413 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1414 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1416 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1417 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1421 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1424 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1425 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1426 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1428 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1429 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1430 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1431 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1434 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1435 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1436 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1437 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1438 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1439 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1440 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1441 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1442 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1443 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1444 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1447 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1448 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1450 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1451 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1452 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1453 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1456 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1457 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1458 as different types on some Unix systems.
1459 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1460 function pointer passed to tputs().
1461 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1462 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1463 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1464 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1467 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1468 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1469 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1470 + update config.guess, config.sub
1473 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1475 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1476 some ncurses packages.
1477 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1478 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1479 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1481 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1484 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1485 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1486 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1487 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1488 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1489 needed for rpm script.
1490 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1491 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1492 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1495 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1496 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1497 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1498 that sample program.
1499 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1500 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1501 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1502 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1506 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1508 + regen Ada html documentation.
1509 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1510 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1512 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1514 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1515 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1516 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1517 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1518 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1519 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1521 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1522 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1524 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1525 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1528 + regen Ada html documentation.
1529 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1530 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1532 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1533 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1534 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1535 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1536 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1537 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1538 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1539 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1540 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1541 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1542 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1543 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1544 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1545 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1546 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1547 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1548 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1549 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1550 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1553 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1554 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1555 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1557 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1559 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1560 explain.txt is not found.
1563 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1564 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1565 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1566 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1567 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1569 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1572 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1573 + regenerated html manpages.
1574 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1576 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1577 a new install of hashed database.
1578 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1581 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1582 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1583 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1584 wide-character configuration.
1585 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1586 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1589 + regenerated html manpages.
1590 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1591 special case of trace configuration.
1594 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1595 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1596 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1597 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1598 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1602 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1603 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1604 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1605 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1606 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1608 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1609 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1612 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1613 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1614 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1615 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1616 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1617 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1618 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1619 file configuration if that is used.
1620 + update config.guess, config.sub
1623 + regenerated html manpages.
1624 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1626 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1627 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1630 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1631 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1634 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1635 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1636 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1639 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1641 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1642 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1643 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1644 wide-character configuration.
1645 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1646 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1647 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1650 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1651 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1652 version which works with termcap.
1653 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1654 (request by Sven Joachim).
1655 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1656 (report by Sven Joachim).
1659 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1660 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1661 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1664 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1666 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1667 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1670 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1672 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1673 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1674 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1675 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1676 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1677 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1681 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1682 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1683 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1685 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1688 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1690 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1694 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1696 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1697 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1698 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1699 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1700 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1701 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1702 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1703 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1704 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1705 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1706 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1707 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1710 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1711 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1712 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1713 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1714 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1715 external package "cindent".
1718 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1719 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1720 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1721 inconsistent printer-controls.
1722 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1723 form is available -TD
1724 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1726 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1728 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1729 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1730 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1731 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1732 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1734 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1735 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1739 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1740 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1741 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1742 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1743 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1745 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1748 + regenerated html manpages.
1749 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1750 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1751 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1754 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1756 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1757 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1758 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1759 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1763 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1764 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1767 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1768 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1769 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1770 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1771 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1772 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1773 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1777 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1778 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1779 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1780 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1781 by Tim van der Molen).
1782 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1783 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1784 library configuration.
1785 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1786 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1787 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1790 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1792 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1793 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1794 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1795 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1796 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1799 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1800 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1801 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1802 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1803 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1804 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1805 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1806 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1809 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1810 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1811 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1812 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1813 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1814 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1815 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1816 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1819 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1820 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1821 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1822 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1825 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1826 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1827 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1830 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1831 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1832 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1835 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1836 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1837 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1838 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1841 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1842 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1843 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1845 + update Ada95/configure.
1846 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1847 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1848 of updating LIBS variable.
1851 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1852 work with 64-bit compiles.
1853 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1857 + regenerated html documentation.
1858 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1860 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1861 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1862 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1863 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1866 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1867 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1869 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1870 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1871 build- and target-machines differ.
1872 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1873 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1875 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1876 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1879 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1880 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1881 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1882 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1883 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1884 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1885 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1886 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1887 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1888 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1889 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1890 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1891 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1892 found in predefined libraries.
1893 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1896 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1897 (patch by David Benjamin).
1898 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1899 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1900 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1901 may be defined by that route.
1904 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1905 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1906 the predefined include directories.
1907 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1908 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1909 where older versions would produce an error.
1912 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1913 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1914 terminfo to termcap strings
1915 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1916 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1917 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1918 directory was already added.
1919 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1920 directories (which will be ignored).
1923 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1924 + discard motion events
1925 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1926 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1927 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1928 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1931 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1932 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1933 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1934 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1935 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1936 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1937 extended-colors configuration.
1938 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1939 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1940 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1943 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1945 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1946 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1947 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1949 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1950 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1951 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1954 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1955 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1959 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1960 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1961 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1962 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1963 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1964 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1965 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1966 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1967 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1971 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1972 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1973 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1974 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1977 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1979 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1980 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1981 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1984 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1985 making those separately distributable.
1986 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1987 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1991 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1994 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1995 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1996 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1997 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2001 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2002 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2003 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2004 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2007 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2008 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2009 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2010 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2012 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2013 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2014 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2015 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2019 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2020 that line-drawing works.
2021 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2022 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2023 capabilities can run.
2024 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2028 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2029 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2030 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2031 before older in the list.
2032 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2033 + minor documentation cleanup.
2034 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2035 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2036 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2039 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2040 most common case of SGR 0.
2041 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2042 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2043 events remain, it will return ERR.
2046 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2047 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2048 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2049 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2050 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2053 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2054 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2055 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2058 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2059 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2060 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2061 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2062 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2063 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2066 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2067 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2068 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2069 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2070 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2072 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2074 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2076 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2077 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2078 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2080 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2081 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2084 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2085 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2087 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2088 writing terminfo entries.
2089 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2090 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2091 by Nicholas Marriott).
2094 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2096 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2097 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2101 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2102 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2103 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2104 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2105 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2109 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2110 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2111 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2112 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2115 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2116 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2117 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2118 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2119 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2120 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2121 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2124 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2125 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2126 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2127 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2128 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2129 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2130 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2131 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2132 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2133 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2134 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2137 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2138 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2139 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2140 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
2143 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2144 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2147 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2148 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2149 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2153 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2154 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2155 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2156 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2157 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2159 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2160 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2163 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2164 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2165 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2166 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2167 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2168 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2170 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2171 library (some work remains for forms library).
2174 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2175 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2176 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2177 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2179 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2180 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2181 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2182 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2185 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2186 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2189 test/test_addchstr.c
2190 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2191 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2192 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2193 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2196 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2198 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2199 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2200 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2201 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2205 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2206 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2207 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2208 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2211 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2212 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2213 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2216 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2219 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2220 broken in 20090509 merging.
2221 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2222 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2223 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2224 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2225 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2226 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2227 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2228 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2230 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2233 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2234 implementation details of hash function.
2237 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2238 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2239 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2242 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2243 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2244 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2245 test/demo_terminfo.c
2246 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2247 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2250 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2251 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2255 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2258 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2260 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2261 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2262 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2263 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2264 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2266 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2267 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2268 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2271 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2272 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2273 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2276 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2277 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2279 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2282 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2283 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2285 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2286 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2290 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2291 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2292 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2295 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2298 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2301 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2302 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2303 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2304 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2307 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2310 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2311 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2312 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2313 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2317 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2320 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2321 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2324 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2327 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2331 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2334 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2335 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2336 part of the form library.
2339 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2340 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2343 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2344 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2345 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2346 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2347 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2348 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2349 a temporary variable.
2350 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2351 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2352 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2353 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2354 with Charles Wilson).
2355 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2356 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2357 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2358 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2359 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2360 digits, after the final '.').
2361 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2362 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2363 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2364 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2365 from 2009031 changes.
2366 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2367 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2368 termlib) is to be linked.
2369 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2370 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2373 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2374 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2375 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2376 (report by Charles Wilson).
2377 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2378 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2379 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2380 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2381 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2384 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2385 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2386 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2387 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2388 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2390 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2391 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2392 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2393 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2394 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2395 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2396 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2397 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2400 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2401 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2402 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2405 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2408 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2410 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2411 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2412 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2413 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2414 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2417 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2418 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2419 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2420 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2421 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2422 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2425 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2426 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2428 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2429 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2430 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2433 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2434 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2435 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2436 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2437 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2438 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2439 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2440 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2441 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2444 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2445 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2447 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2449 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2450 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2453 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2455 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2456 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2457 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2458 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2461 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2462 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2463 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2465 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2466 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2469 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2470 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2471 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2472 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2473 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2474 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2476 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2477 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2479 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2480 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2483 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2484 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2485 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2488 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2489 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2490 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2492 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2493 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2496 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2498 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2499 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2500 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2502 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2503 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2504 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2505 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2506 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2507 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2509 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2510 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2513 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2514 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2515 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2516 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2517 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2518 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2519 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2520 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2521 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2522 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2523 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2526 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2527 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2528 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2529 passing color or video attributes.
2530 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2531 display meta-characters.
2532 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2533 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2534 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2535 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2539 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2540 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2541 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2543 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2546 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2548 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2549 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2551 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2554 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2555 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2556 does not work well on that platform).
2557 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2560 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2561 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2562 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2564 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2565 --disable-database is used.
2566 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2567 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2568 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2569 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2573 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2574 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2575 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2576 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2577 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2578 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2579 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2583 + regenerated html documentation.
2584 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2585 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2586 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2587 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2588 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2589 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2590 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2591 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2594 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2595 works for C/C++ parts).
2596 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2597 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2600 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2601 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2602 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2603 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2604 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2605 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2606 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2607 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2608 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2610 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2611 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2612 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2613 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2614 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2615 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2618 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2619 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2622 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2623 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2624 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2625 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2626 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2627 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2630 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2631 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2634 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2638 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2639 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2640 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2641 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2643 + update test/configure script.
2644 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2645 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2646 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2647 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2648 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2651 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2652 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2654 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2656 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2657 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2658 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2659 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2660 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2661 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2662 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2663 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2664 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2667 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2668 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2669 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2670 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2671 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2672 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2673 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2674 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2675 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2676 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2677 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2681 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2682 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2683 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2684 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2685 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2687 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2688 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2689 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2690 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2691 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2694 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2695 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2696 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2697 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2698 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2699 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2700 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2703 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2707 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2710 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2713 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2714 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2716 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2717 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2718 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2722 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2723 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2725 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2726 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2727 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2728 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2731 + regenerated html documentation.
2732 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2733 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2734 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2735 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2736 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2739 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2740 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2741 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2745 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2746 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2747 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2748 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2749 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2750 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2753 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2754 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2756 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2757 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2758 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2759 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2760 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2761 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2762 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2763 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2764 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2767 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2768 screen which must be updated.
2769 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2770 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2771 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2775 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2776 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2778 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2779 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2780 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2781 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2784 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2785 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2786 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2788 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2792 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2793 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2794 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2797 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2798 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2799 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2800 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2803 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2804 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2806 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2808 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2811 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2812 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2813 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2814 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2815 python-dev2 mailing list).
2818 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2819 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2820 are not associated with a particular screen.
2821 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2822 stdscr to the callback function.
2823 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2824 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2825 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2826 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2827 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2828 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2829 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2833 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2834 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2835 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2836 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2838 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2839 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2840 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2841 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2842 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2845 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2846 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2847 that the 'F' accepts.
2848 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2849 are working concurrently.
2850 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2854 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2855 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2856 _nc_free_and_exit().
2859 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2860 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2863 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2864 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2867 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2868 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2869 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2870 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2873 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2874 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2875 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2876 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2877 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2878 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2880 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2881 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2885 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2886 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2887 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2890 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2891 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2892 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2895 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2896 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2897 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2901 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2902 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2903 "link_test" builds properly.
2904 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2905 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2906 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2907 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2908 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2909 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2910 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2912 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2915 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2919 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2920 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2923 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2925 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2926 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2927 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2930 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2931 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2932 pierre4d2 comments).
2933 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2934 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2935 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2936 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2940 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2941 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2942 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2943 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2944 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2946 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2947 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2948 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2952 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2953 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2956 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2958 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2960 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2964 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2965 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2967 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2968 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2969 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2970 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2971 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2973 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2974 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2977 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2978 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2979 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2980 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2983 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2984 calls within the ncurses library.
2985 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2987 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2988 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2989 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2991 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2992 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2993 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2994 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2995 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2998 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2999 for threaded library (incomplete).
3000 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3001 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3005 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3006 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3007 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3008 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3009 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3010 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3011 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3012 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3013 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3016 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3018 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3019 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3022 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3023 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3024 "\0" followed by a digit.
3025 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3026 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3027 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3028 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3029 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3030 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3031 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3032 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3033 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3036 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3037 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3038 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3039 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3040 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3042 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3043 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3044 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3048 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3049 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3050 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3051 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3052 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3053 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3054 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3055 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3056 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3059 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3060 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3061 + add test/test_getstr.c
3062 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3063 + add test/test_instr.c
3066 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3067 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3068 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3072 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3073 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3074 ".log" to the name and try again.
3075 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3076 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3077 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3078 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3079 --disable-echo option is used.
3080 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3081 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3082 + update config.guess, config.sub
3085 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3086 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3087 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3091 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3092 problems with multi-column characters.
3093 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3094 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3095 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3096 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3097 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3098 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3099 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3102 + add test/demo_panels.c
3103 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3106 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3108 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3109 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3112 + add test/key_name.c
3113 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3114 + update test/configure
3115 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3116 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3117 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3121 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3122 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3123 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3124 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3125 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3126 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3127 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3128 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3129 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3132 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3133 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3134 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3135 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3136 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3137 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3140 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3141 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3143 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3144 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3145 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3146 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3149 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3150 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3151 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3152 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3154 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3156 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3157 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3158 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3159 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3160 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3163 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3164 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3166 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3167 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3168 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3169 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3170 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3171 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3172 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3173 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3174 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3175 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3176 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3179 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3180 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3181 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3182 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3183 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3184 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3185 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3188 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3189 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3190 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3191 Ada95 tree is not built.
3194 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3195 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3196 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3197 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3198 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3199 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3201 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3202 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3203 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3204 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3205 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3206 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3207 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3208 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3209 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3210 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3211 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3212 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3213 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3214 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3215 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3216 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3217 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3218 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3219 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3221 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3222 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3223 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3224 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3225 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3226 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3227 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3228 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3229 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3232 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3233 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3234 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3235 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3236 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3237 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3238 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3239 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3243 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3244 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3245 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3246 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3247 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3251 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3252 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3253 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3254 in the configure script to an error.
3255 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3256 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3257 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3258 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3259 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3261 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3262 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3265 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3266 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3269 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3270 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3272 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3273 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3274 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3275 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3276 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3277 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3278 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3279 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3282 + regenerated html documentation.
3283 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3284 opaque in selected configurations.
3285 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3286 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3287 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3288 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3289 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3290 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3291 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3292 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3293 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3294 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3295 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3297 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3298 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3301 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3302 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3303 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3304 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3305 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3306 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3307 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3308 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3309 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3310 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3311 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3312 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3315 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3317 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3318 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3319 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3321 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3322 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3323 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3324 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3325 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3326 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3327 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3328 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3330 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3331 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3334 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3335 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3337 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3339 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3340 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3341 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3344 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3345 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3346 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3347 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3349 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3350 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3351 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3352 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3353 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3354 no longer relies on it.
3355 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3356 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3357 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3360 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3361 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3364 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3365 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3366 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3367 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3368 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3369 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3370 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3371 its license consistent with ncurses.
3372 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3373 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3374 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3377 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3378 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3379 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3380 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3384 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3385 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3386 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3388 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3389 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3392 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3393 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3394 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3397 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3398 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3399 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3400 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3401 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3402 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3403 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3404 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3405 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3406 to manpages as needed.
3407 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3408 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3411 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3412 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3413 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3414 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3415 + update config.guess, config.sub
3417 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3420 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3421 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3422 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3423 correct nor portable.
3424 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3426 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3427 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3431 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3432 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3433 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3434 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3435 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3436 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3439 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3440 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3441 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3442 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3444 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3445 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3446 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3447 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3448 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
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