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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 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
50 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
51 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
52 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
53 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
55 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
56 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
59 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
60 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
61 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
62 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
64 + regenerate html manpages.
65 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
66 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
67 Stack Overflow forum):
70 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
71 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
72 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
73 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
74 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
78 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
79 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
80 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
81 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
82 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
84 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
85 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
86 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
87 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
88 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
89 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
91 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
92 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
93 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
94 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
95 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
96 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
98 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
99 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
101 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
102 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
104 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
105 the ncurses library aside from headers.
106 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
107 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
108 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
109 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
110 + update config.guess, config.sub from
111 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
114 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
115 (report by Todd M Lewis).
116 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
117 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
118 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
119 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
120 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
121 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
123 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
124 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
125 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
126 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
127 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
128 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
129 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
132 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
133 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
134 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
135 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
136 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
137 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
138 with the shared libraries.
139 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
140 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
141 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
142 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
143 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
144 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
145 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
146 inherit into new windows.
149 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
150 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
151 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
152 readonly text segment.
155 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
156 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
159 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
160 the extended putwin/getwin.
161 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
163 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
167 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
168 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
169 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
170 for a magic code at the beginning:
171 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
174 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
176 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
177 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
180 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
181 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
182 (report by Grady Martin).
185 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
186 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
187 the wide-character libraries.
188 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
190 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
191 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
194 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
195 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
196 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
200 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
201 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
204 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
205 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
206 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
207 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
208 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
211 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
212 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
213 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
216 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
217 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
218 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
220 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
221 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
222 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
223 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
224 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
225 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
226 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
227 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
228 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
229 (report by Pavel Balaev).
232 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
233 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
234 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
235 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
239 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
240 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
244 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
248 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
249 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
250 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
252 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
253 regenerate html-manpages.
256 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
257 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
259 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
260 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
261 package for ncurses6.
262 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
263 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
264 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
265 in the corresponding ".map" files.
266 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
267 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
271 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
272 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
273 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
274 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
276 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
277 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
278 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
279 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
282 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
283 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
284 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
285 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
286 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
289 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
290 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
291 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
292 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
293 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
294 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
295 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
299 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
300 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
304 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
308 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
309 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
310 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
311 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
312 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
314 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
315 (report by Mike Gran).
318 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
319 demonstration of its limitations.
320 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
321 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
322 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
323 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
324 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
325 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
326 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
328 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
329 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
332 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
333 + implement flash in win_driver.c
334 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
336 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
337 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
338 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
339 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
340 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
341 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
342 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
343 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
346 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
347 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
348 some older cross-compiler environments.
349 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
350 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
351 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
352 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
353 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
354 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
355 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
356 + update config.sub from
357 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
360 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
362 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
365 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
367 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
370 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
371 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
372 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
375 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
376 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
380 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
381 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
382 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
385 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
386 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
387 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
388 + regenerated html manpages.
389 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
390 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
391 which reverses cause/effect.
392 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
393 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
394 + fixes for win_driver.c:
395 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
400 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
401 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
402 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
403 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
405 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
406 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
407 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
408 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
412 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
413 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
414 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
415 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
416 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
417 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
418 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
419 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
420 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
423 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
424 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
425 options, from xterm changes.
428 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
429 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
433 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
434 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
437 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
438 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
439 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
440 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
441 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
442 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
443 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
446 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
447 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
448 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
449 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
450 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
451 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
452 providing directly comparable screens.
453 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
456 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
458 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
459 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
460 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
461 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
462 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
463 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
464 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
467 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
468 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
469 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
470 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
471 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
474 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
475 overlap with sgr functionality.
476 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
477 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
478 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
479 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
480 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
481 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
482 older ncurses than 20131207.
483 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
484 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
485 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
486 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
487 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
490 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
491 environment variable.
492 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
493 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
494 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
495 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
496 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
497 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
498 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
499 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
500 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
501 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
502 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
503 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
504 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
505 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
507 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
509 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
510 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
511 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
513 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
514 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
515 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
516 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
517 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
518 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
519 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
521 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
523 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
524 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
525 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
526 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
527 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
528 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
529 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
530 to be consecutive anyway.
531 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
532 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
533 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
534 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
537 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
538 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
539 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
542 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
543 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
544 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
545 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
548 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
550 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
551 simplify later merging:
552 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
553 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
554 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
555 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
556 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
560 + update config.guess, config.sub from
561 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
564 + modify configure script:
565 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
566 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
567 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
568 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
569 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
570 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
571 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
572 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
574 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
575 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
578 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
579 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
580 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
581 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
582 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
583 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
587 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
590 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
591 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
592 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
593 + add terminology entry -TD
594 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
595 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
598 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
599 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
600 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
601 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
602 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
606 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
607 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
608 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
609 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
610 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
613 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
616 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
617 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
618 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
622 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
623 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
624 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
625 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
626 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
627 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
629 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
630 html emitted by docbook.
633 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
634 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
635 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
636 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
639 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
640 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
641 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
642 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
643 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
644 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
647 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
648 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
649 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
650 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
653 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
654 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
657 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
659 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
662 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
663 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
664 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
665 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
667 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
669 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
670 + updated llib-l* files.
673 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
674 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
678 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
682 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
683 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
684 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
685 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
686 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
687 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
688 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
689 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
690 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
691 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
692 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
693 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
694 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
695 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
697 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
699 + update config.sub from
700 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
703 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
706 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
707 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
708 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
709 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
711 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
714 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
715 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
716 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
717 them more consistent with other packages.
720 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
721 compiling ncurses-examples.
722 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
725 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
728 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
729 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
730 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
731 cross-compiles to MinGW.
732 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
736 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
737 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
741 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
742 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
744 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
746 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
747 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
748 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
749 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
750 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
753 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
754 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
755 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
758 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
760 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
761 before/after Debian #700177.
762 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
763 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
765 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
766 of sort, improving portability.
767 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
768 + update config.guess, config.sub from
769 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
772 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
773 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
775 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
776 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
777 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
780 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
781 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
782 introduced by Debian #700177.
783 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
784 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
787 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
788 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
790 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
791 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
792 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
795 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
796 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
798 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
799 cross-compile support packages.
800 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
803 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
804 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
805 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
806 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
807 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
808 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
809 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
810 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
811 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
812 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
813 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
814 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
817 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
818 initialization of cur_term.
821 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
822 + minor compiler-warning fixes
825 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
826 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
827 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
828 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
829 --enable-auto-import flag.
830 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
834 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
835 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
836 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
837 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
838 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
840 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
841 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
842 (patch by Eric Raymond).
845 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
846 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
847 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
849 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
850 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
851 not printing the full pathname of the program.
852 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
853 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
854 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
857 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
858 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
860 + add test/dots_termcap.c
861 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
862 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
863 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
864 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
865 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
866 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
867 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
868 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
869 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
871 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
872 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
875 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
876 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
877 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
878 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
879 the left margin of the display.
880 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
881 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
882 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
883 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
886 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
887 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
888 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
889 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
890 + regenerated html manpages.
891 + update doctype used for html documentation.
894 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
895 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
896 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
897 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
898 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
899 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
902 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
903 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
904 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
905 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
906 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
909 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
910 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
913 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
914 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
915 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
916 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
917 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
919 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
920 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
921 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
922 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
925 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
926 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
927 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
928 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
930 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
932 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
934 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
937 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
941 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
942 (report by Christian Ebert).
943 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
944 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
945 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
948 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
949 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
950 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
951 add bold for consistency with sgr,
952 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
953 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
954 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
956 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
957 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
958 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
959 line split after "%;".
960 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
961 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
964 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
965 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
966 + regenerated html manpages.
967 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
968 + updated some autoconf macros:
969 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
970 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
971 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
972 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
973 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
974 configuration (Redhat #911540).
975 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
976 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
979 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
980 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
982 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
983 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
985 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
986 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
987 of raw input in MinGW port.
990 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
991 + update config.guess, config.sub
994 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
996 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
998 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
999 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1000 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1001 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1002 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1003 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1004 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1006 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1007 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1010 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1011 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1013 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1014 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1015 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1018 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1019 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1020 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1023 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1024 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1025 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1026 help reduce flicker.
1027 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1028 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1029 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1030 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1031 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1032 Dennis Grevenstein).
1033 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1034 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1035 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1038 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1039 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1040 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1041 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1042 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1043 + improve error-checking in copywin
1044 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1045 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1046 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1047 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1048 matching capability names.
1049 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1050 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1051 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1054 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1055 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1056 are unused in the current driver model.
1057 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1059 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1060 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1061 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1062 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1065 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1066 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1068 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1069 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1070 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1071 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1072 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1075 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1076 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1077 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1081 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1083 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1084 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1086 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1087 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1088 wide-character which can be used.
1091 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1092 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1093 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1094 by Erwin Waterlander).
1095 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1096 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1097 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1098 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1099 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1100 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1104 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1105 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1106 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1107 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1108 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1109 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1110 + remove a few redundant checks.
1111 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1113 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1114 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1115 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1116 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1118 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1119 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1120 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1124 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1125 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1126 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1130 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1131 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1132 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1133 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1136 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1137 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1138 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1139 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1140 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1141 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1142 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1143 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1145 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1146 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1147 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1148 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1151 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1152 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1153 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1155 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1156 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1157 libraries or executables.
1160 + realign these related pages:
1165 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1166 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1167 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1168 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1169 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1170 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1171 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1172 based on testing with tack -TD
1173 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1174 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1177 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1179 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1180 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1181 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1184 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1188 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1189 (patch by Christian Persch).
1192 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1194 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1195 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1196 has used that for a while.
1197 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1198 for experimental use.
1199 + remove unused configure macros.
1200 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1201 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1202 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1203 + update config.guess, config.sub
1206 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1207 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1208 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1209 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1210 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1211 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1212 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1215 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1216 to help with MinGW port.
1219 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1221 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1224 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1227 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1228 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1229 might not be allocated.
1230 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1233 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1234 initial screen-sizes.
1235 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1236 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1240 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1241 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1245 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1246 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1247 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1249 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1250 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1253 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1254 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1255 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1256 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1257 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1258 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1259 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1263 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1264 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1265 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1266 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1267 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1268 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1269 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1270 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1274 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1275 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1276 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1277 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1278 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1279 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1282 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1286 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1288 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1290 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1291 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1292 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1293 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1294 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1295 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1298 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1300 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1301 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1302 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1304 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1305 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1308 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1309 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1310 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1313 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1314 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1316 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1317 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1319 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1320 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1323 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1325 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1326 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1327 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1328 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1329 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1330 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1333 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1334 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1335 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1336 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1337 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1338 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1339 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1340 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1341 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1343 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1344 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1345 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1346 Onno van der Linden).
1349 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1351 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1353 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1354 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1357 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1358 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1359 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1360 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1361 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1362 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1363 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1366 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1367 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1368 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1369 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1370 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1371 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1372 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1373 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1374 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1375 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1376 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1377 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1378 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1379 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1380 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1383 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1384 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1385 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1386 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1387 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1388 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1389 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1390 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1391 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1392 are interpreted as key definitions.
1393 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1394 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1398 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1399 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1400 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1401 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1402 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1403 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1404 as building-blocks -TD
1405 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1408 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1409 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1410 title is a status-line. -TD
1411 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1412 of ordering and overrides -TD
1413 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1414 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1415 used in that file -TD
1418 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1419 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1420 definable capabilities.
1421 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1422 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1423 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1424 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1425 embedded in the description.
1426 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1427 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1428 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1429 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1430 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1431 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1434 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1435 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1436 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1437 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1438 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1439 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1440 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1441 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1444 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1445 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1446 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1447 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1448 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1449 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1452 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1453 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1454 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1456 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1457 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1458 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1459 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1462 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1463 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1464 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1467 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1468 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1469 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1471 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1472 calls to setupterm().
1473 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1475 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1476 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1477 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1479 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1483 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1486 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1488 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1489 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1490 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1491 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1492 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1493 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1495 + update config.guess, config.sub
1498 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1499 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1500 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1501 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1502 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1503 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1504 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1505 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1506 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1509 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1510 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1511 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1512 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1513 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1514 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1515 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1516 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1517 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1518 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1519 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1520 Linux versus most other systems.
1523 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1527 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1528 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1529 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1530 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1531 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1532 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1533 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1534 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1535 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1536 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1537 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1538 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1539 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1540 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1543 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1545 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1547 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1548 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1549 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1550 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1553 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1555 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1556 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1557 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1558 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1559 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1561 + regenerated html manpages.
1564 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1565 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1566 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1567 + change recommended regular expression library.
1568 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1569 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1572 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1573 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1574 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1575 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1576 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1577 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1578 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1582 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1583 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1585 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1588 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1590 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1592 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1593 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1594 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1596 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1598 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1601 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1602 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1603 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1604 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1606 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1607 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1608 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1611 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1612 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1614 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1617 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1619 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1621 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1623 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1624 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1625 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1626 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1627 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1628 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1629 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1632 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1633 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1635 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1636 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1637 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1638 database (cf: 20111001).
1641 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1642 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1643 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1645 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1646 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1648 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1649 in older FreeBSD machines.
1650 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1651 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1652 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1655 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1656 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1657 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1658 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1659 root's home directory.
1660 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1661 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1662 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1663 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1664 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1666 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1667 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1668 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1669 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1670 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1671 (report by Peter Kruse).
1674 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1675 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1677 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1679 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1680 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1681 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1684 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1685 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1686 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1687 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1688 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1689 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1692 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1693 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1694 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1695 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1696 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1699 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1700 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1701 input and output of termcap source.
1702 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1703 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1704 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1705 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1706 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1707 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1708 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1709 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1710 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1713 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1716 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1718 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1719 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1720 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1721 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1723 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1726 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1727 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1729 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1730 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1733 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1734 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1736 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1737 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1739 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1740 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1741 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1742 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1744 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1745 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1746 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1747 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1749 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1750 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1753 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1754 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1755 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1756 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1759 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1760 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1761 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1762 + add terminator entry -TD
1763 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1764 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1765 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1769 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1770 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1771 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1772 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1773 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1774 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1775 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1776 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1777 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1778 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1782 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1783 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1784 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1785 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1786 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1787 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1789 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1790 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1791 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1793 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1796 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1797 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1798 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1799 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1801 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1802 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1804 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1805 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1806 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1807 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1808 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1809 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1810 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1811 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1813 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1814 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1816 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1817 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1818 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1819 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1820 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1821 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1822 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1823 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1824 translating to termcap.
1825 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1826 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1829 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1830 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1831 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1832 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1833 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1834 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1836 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1837 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1838 regarding Schilling's test program):
1839 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1840 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1841 + use \040 rather than \s
1842 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1843 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1846 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1847 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1848 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1849 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1850 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1851 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1852 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1853 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1854 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1855 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1856 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1857 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1860 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1861 are not used in the $CC variable.
1862 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1863 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1864 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1865 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1866 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1867 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1870 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1871 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1875 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1876 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1877 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1878 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1879 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1881 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1882 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1884 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1887 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1888 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1891 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1892 + set default prefix to /usr.
1893 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1894 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1895 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1896 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1899 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1900 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1901 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1902 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1904 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1905 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1909 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1912 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1913 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1914 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1916 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1917 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1918 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1919 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1922 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1923 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1924 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1925 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1926 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1927 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1928 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1929 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1930 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1931 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1932 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1935 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1936 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1938 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1939 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1940 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1941 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1944 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1945 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1946 as different types on some Unix systems.
1947 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1948 function pointer passed to tputs().
1949 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1950 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1951 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1952 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1955 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1956 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1957 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1958 + update config.guess, config.sub
1961 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1963 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1964 some ncurses packages.
1965 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1966 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1967 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1969 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1972 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1973 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1974 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1975 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1976 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1977 needed for rpm script.
1978 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1979 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1980 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1983 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1984 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1985 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1986 that sample program.
1987 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1988 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1989 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1990 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1994 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1996 + regen Ada html documentation.
1997 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1998 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2000 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2002 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2003 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2004 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2005 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2006 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2007 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2009 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2010 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2012 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2013 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2016 + regen Ada html documentation.
2017 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2018 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2020 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2021 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2022 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2023 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2024 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2025 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2026 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2027 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2028 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2029 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2030 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2031 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2032 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2033 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2034 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2035 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2036 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2037 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2038 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2041 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2042 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2043 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2045 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2047 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2048 explain.txt is not found.
2051 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2052 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2053 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2054 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2055 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2057 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2060 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2061 + regenerated html manpages.
2062 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2064 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2065 a new install of hashed database.
2066 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2069 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2070 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2071 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2072 wide-character configuration.
2073 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2074 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2077 + regenerated html manpages.
2078 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2079 special case of trace configuration.
2082 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2083 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2084 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2085 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2086 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2090 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2091 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2092 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2093 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2094 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2096 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2097 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2100 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2101 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2102 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2103 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2104 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2105 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2106 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2107 file configuration if that is used.
2108 + update config.guess, config.sub
2111 + regenerated html manpages.
2112 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2114 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2115 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2118 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2119 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2122 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2123 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2124 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2127 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2129 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2130 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2131 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2132 wide-character configuration.
2133 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2134 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2135 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2138 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2139 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2140 version which works with termcap.
2141 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2142 (request by Sven Joachim).
2143 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2144 (report by Sven Joachim).
2147 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2148 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2149 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2152 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2154 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2155 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2158 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2160 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2161 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2162 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2163 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2164 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2165 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2169 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2170 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2171 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2173 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2176 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2178 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2182 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2184 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2185 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2186 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2187 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2188 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2189 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2190 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2191 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2192 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2193 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2194 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2195 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2198 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2199 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2200 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2201 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2202 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2203 external package "cindent".
2206 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2207 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2208 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2209 inconsistent printer-controls.
2210 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2211 form is available -TD
2212 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2214 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2216 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2217 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2218 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2219 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2220 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2222 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2223 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2227 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2228 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2229 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2230 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2231 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2233 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2236 + regenerated html manpages.
2237 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2238 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2239 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2242 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2244 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2245 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2246 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2247 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2251 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2252 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2255 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2256 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2257 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2258 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2259 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2260 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2261 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2265 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2266 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2267 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2268 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2269 by Tim van der Molen).
2270 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2271 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2272 library configuration.
2273 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2274 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2275 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2278 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2280 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2281 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2282 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2283 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2284 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2287 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2288 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2289 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2290 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2291 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2292 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2293 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2294 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2297 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2298 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2299 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2300 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2301 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2302 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2303 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2304 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2307 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2308 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2309 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2310 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2313 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2314 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2315 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2318 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2319 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2320 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2323 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2324 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2325 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2326 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2329 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2330 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2331 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2333 + update Ada95/configure.
2334 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2335 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2336 of updating LIBS variable.
2339 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2340 work with 64-bit compiles.
2341 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2345 + regenerated html documentation.
2346 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2348 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2349 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2350 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2351 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2354 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2355 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2357 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2358 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2359 build- and target-machines differ.
2360 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2361 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2363 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2364 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2367 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2368 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2369 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2370 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2371 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2372 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2373 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2374 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2375 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2376 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2377 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2378 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2379 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2380 found in predefined libraries.
2381 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2384 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2385 (patch by David Benjamin).
2386 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2387 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2388 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2389 may be defined by that route.
2392 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2393 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2394 the predefined include directories.
2395 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2396 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2397 where older versions would produce an error.
2400 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2401 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2402 terminfo to termcap strings
2403 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2404 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2405 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2406 directory was already added.
2407 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2408 directories (which will be ignored).
2411 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2412 + discard motion events
2413 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2414 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2415 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2416 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2419 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2420 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2421 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2422 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2423 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2424 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2425 extended-colors configuration.
2426 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2427 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2428 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2431 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2433 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2434 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2435 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2437 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2438 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2439 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2442 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2443 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2447 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2448 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2449 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2450 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2451 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2452 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2453 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2454 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2455 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2459 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2460 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2461 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2462 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2465 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2467 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2468 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2469 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2472 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2473 making those separately distributable.
2474 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2475 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2479 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2482 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2483 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2484 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2485 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2489 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2490 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2491 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2492 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2495 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2496 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2497 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2498 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2500 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2501 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2502 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2503 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2507 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2508 that line-drawing works.
2509 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2510 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2511 capabilities can run.
2512 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2516 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2517 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2518 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2519 before older in the list.
2520 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2521 + minor documentation cleanup.
2522 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2523 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2524 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2527 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2528 most common case of SGR 0.
2529 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2530 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2531 events remain, it will return ERR.
2534 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2535 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2536 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2537 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2538 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2541 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2542 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2543 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2546 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2547 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2548 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2549 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2550 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2551 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2554 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2555 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2556 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2557 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2558 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2560 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2562 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2564 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2565 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2566 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2568 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2569 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2572 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2573 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2575 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2576 writing terminfo entries.
2577 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2578 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2579 by Nicholas Marriott).
2582 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2584 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2585 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2589 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2590 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2591 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2592 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2593 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2597 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2598 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2599 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2600 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2603 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2604 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2605 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2606 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2607 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2608 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2609 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2612 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2613 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2614 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2615 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2616 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2617 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2618 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2619 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2620 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2621 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2622 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2625 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2626 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2627 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2628 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2631 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2632 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2635 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2636 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2637 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2641 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2642 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2643 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2644 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2645 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2647 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2648 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2651 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2652 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2653 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2654 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2655 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2656 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2658 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2659 library (some work remains for forms library).
2662 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2663 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2664 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2665 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2667 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2668 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2669 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2670 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2673 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2674 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2677 test/test_addchstr.c
2678 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2679 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2680 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2681 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2684 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2686 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2687 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2688 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2689 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2693 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2694 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2695 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2696 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2699 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2700 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2701 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2704 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2707 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2708 broken in 20090510 merging.
2709 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2710 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2711 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2712 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2713 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2714 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2715 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2716 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2718 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2721 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2722 implementation details of hash function.
2725 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2726 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2727 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2730 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2731 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2732 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2733 test/demo_terminfo.c
2734 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2735 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2738 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2739 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2743 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2746 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2748 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2749 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2750 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2751 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2752 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2754 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2755 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2756 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2759 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2760 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2761 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2764 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2765 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2767 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2770 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2771 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2773 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2774 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2778 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2779 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2780 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2783 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2786 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2789 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2790 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2791 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2792 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2795 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2798 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2799 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2800 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2801 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2805 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2808 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2809 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2812 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2815 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2819 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2822 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2823 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2824 part of the form library.
2827 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2828 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2831 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2832 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2833 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2834 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2835 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2836 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2837 a temporary variable.
2838 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2839 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2840 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2841 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2842 with Charles Wilson).
2843 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2844 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2845 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2846 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2847 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2848 digits, after the final '.').
2849 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2850 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2851 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2852 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2853 from 20090321 changes.
2854 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2855 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2856 termlib) is to be linked.
2857 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2858 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2861 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2862 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2863 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2864 (report by Charles Wilson).
2865 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2866 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2867 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2868 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2869 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2872 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2873 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2874 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2875 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2876 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2878 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2879 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2880 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2881 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2882 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2883 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2884 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2885 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2888 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2889 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2890 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2893 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2896 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2898 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2899 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2900 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2901 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2902 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2905 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2906 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2907 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2908 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2909 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2910 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2913 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2914 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2916 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2917 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2918 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2921 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2922 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2923 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2924 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2925 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2926 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2927 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2928 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2929 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2932 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2933 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2935 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2937 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2938 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2941 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2943 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2944 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2945 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2946 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2949 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2950 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2951 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2953 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2954 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2957 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2958 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2959 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2960 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2961 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2962 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2964 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2965 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2967 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2968 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2971 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2972 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2973 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2976 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2977 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2978 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2980 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2981 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2984 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2986 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2987 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2988 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2990 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2991 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2992 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2993 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2994 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2995 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2997 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2998 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3001 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3002 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3003 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3004 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3005 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3006 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3007 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3008 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3009 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3010 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3011 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3014 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3015 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3016 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3017 passing color or video attributes.
3018 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3019 display meta-characters.
3020 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3021 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3022 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3023 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3027 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3028 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3029 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3031 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3034 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3036 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3037 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3039 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3042 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3043 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3044 does not work well on that platform).
3045 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3048 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3049 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3050 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3052 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3053 --disable-database is used.
3054 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3055 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3056 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3057 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3061 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3062 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3063 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3064 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3065 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3066 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3067 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3071 + regenerated html documentation.
3072 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3073 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3074 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3075 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3076 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3077 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3078 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3079 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3082 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3083 works for C/C++ parts).
3084 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3085 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3088 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3089 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3090 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3091 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3092 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3093 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3094 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3095 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3096 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3098 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3099 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3100 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3101 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3102 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3103 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3106 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3107 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3110 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3111 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3112 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3113 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3114 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3115 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3118 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3119 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3122 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3126 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3127 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3128 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3129 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3131 + update test/configure script.
3132 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3133 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3134 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3135 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3136 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3139 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3140 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3142 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3144 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3145 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3146 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3147 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3148 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3149 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3150 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3151 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3152 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3155 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3156 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3157 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3158 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3159 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3160 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3161 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3162 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3163 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3164 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3165 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3169 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3170 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3171 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3172 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3173 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3175 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3176 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3177 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3178 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3179 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3182 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3183 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3184 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3185 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3186 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3187 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3188 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3191 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3195 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3198 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3201 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3202 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3204 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3205 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3206 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3210 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3211 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3213 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3214 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3215 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3216 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3219 + regenerated html documentation.
3220 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3221 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3222 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3223 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3224 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3227 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3228 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3229 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3233 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3234 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3235 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3236 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3237 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3238 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3241 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3242 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3244 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3245 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3246 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3247 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3248 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3249 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3250 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3251 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3252 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3255 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3256 screen which must be updated.
3257 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3258 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3259 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3263 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3264 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3266 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3267 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3268 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3269 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3272 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3273 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3274 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3276 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3280 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3281 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3282 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3285 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3286 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3287 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3288 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3291 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3292 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3294 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3296 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3299 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3300 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3301 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3302 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3303 python-dev2 mailing list).
3306 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3307 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3308 are not associated with a particular screen.
3309 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3310 stdscr to the callback function.
3311 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3312 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3313 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3314 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3315 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3316 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3317 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3321 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3322 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3323 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3324 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3326 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3327 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3328 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3329 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3330 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3333 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3334 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3335 that the 'F' accepts.
3336 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3337 are working concurrently.
3338 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3342 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3343 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3344 _nc_free_and_exit().
3347 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3348 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3351 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3352 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3355 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3356 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3357 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3358 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3361 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3362 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3363 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3364 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3365 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3366 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3368 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3369 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3373 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3374 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3375 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3378 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3379 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3380 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3383 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3384 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3385 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3389 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3390 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3391 "link_test" builds properly.
3392 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3393 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3394 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3395 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3396 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3397 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3398 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3400 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3403 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3407 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3408 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3411 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3413 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3414 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3415 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3418 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3419 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3420 pierre4d2 comments).
3421 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3422 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3423 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3424 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3428 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3429 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3430 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3431 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3432 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3434 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3435 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3436 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3440 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3441 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3444 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3446 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
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