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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 configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
50 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
51 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
52 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
53 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
54 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
56 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
59 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
60 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
63 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
65 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
66 reverse-video control -TD
67 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
68 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
69 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
70 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
71 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
72 video escape without using a delay.
73 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
74 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
78 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
79 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
80 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
81 by various discussions including
82 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
85 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
86 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
87 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
88 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
91 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
92 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
95 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
98 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
99 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
100 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
101 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
102 not optional in tput.
103 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
104 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
105 for transformed names.
106 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
107 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
110 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
111 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
112 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
113 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
115 + regenerate llib-* files.
116 + regenerate HTML manpages.
117 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
120 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
121 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
122 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
125 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
126 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
128 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
129 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
132 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
133 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
134 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
137 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
138 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
141 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
143 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
144 page (patch by Leon Winter).
145 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
146 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
147 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
148 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
149 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
152 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
154 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
155 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
157 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
158 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
159 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
160 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
164 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
166 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
168 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
169 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
170 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
171 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
172 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
173 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
174 + update config.guess, config.sub from
175 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
178 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
179 modes by sharing functions with tset.
180 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
181 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
182 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
183 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
185 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
188 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
189 handle a case of "configure && make install".
190 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
191 in sed (Debian #818067).
194 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
195 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
196 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
197 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
199 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
200 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
204 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
205 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
206 output or error are redirected.
207 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
211 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
212 redirected to a file or pipe.
213 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
216 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
218 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
219 for special keys, based on xterm.
222 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
225 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
226 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
227 work (report by Sven Joachim).
230 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
231 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
232 to make it more readable.
235 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
236 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
237 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
238 better testing of function-keys.
239 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
240 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
241 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
242 that could be returned -TD
243 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
246 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
247 + add test/list_keys.c
250 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
251 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
254 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
255 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
256 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
257 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
258 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
259 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
260 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
261 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
262 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
263 cannot combine -c and -o options.
266 + regenerate HTML manpages.
267 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
268 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
269 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
270 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
271 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
272 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
275 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
276 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
278 + modify test/ncurses.c:
279 + check return-value of putwin
280 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
281 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
282 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
285 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
286 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
287 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
288 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
292 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
293 PIC builds documented in
294 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
295 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
296 due to program-transformation configure options.
297 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
300 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
301 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
304 + regenerate HTML manpages.
305 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
309 + regenerate HTML manpages.
310 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
311 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
312 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
313 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
314 can handle the event.
317 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
318 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
319 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
320 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
323 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
324 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
325 as responding to window size-changes.
328 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
329 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
332 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
333 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
334 in case weak symbols are used.
335 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
336 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
338 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
339 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
340 + update config.guess, config.sub from
341 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
344 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
345 in threaded configuration.
346 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
347 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
350 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
351 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
352 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
356 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
357 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
358 unwanted blank lines.
361 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
362 (report by Corey Minyard).
363 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
366 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
367 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
368 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
369 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
371 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
372 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
373 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
375 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
376 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
379 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
380 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
381 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
382 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
385 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
386 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
387 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
390 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
392 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
394 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
395 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
398 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
399 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
400 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
401 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
402 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
403 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
404 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
405 drawing characters as double-width.
408 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
409 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
410 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
411 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
412 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
413 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
414 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
415 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
419 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
421 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
423 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
424 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
425 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
426 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
427 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
430 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
431 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
432 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
433 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
436 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
437 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
438 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
439 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
440 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
442 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
443 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
444 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
445 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
446 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
449 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
450 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
451 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
452 install time (cf: 20150822).
453 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
454 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
455 empty "local" section.
456 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
457 to incorrect attribute-masking.
460 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
461 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
462 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
463 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
464 did not display well.
465 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
466 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
467 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
468 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
469 Normand, Novell #946048).
470 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
471 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
472 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
473 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
474 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
475 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
477 + update config.guess, config.sub from
478 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
481 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
482 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
483 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
484 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
485 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
486 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
487 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
488 + support building with libtool on OS/2
489 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
490 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
493 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
494 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
495 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
496 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
498 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
499 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
500 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
503 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
505 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
506 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
509 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
511 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
512 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
513 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
514 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
517 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
519 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
520 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
521 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
522 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
523 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
524 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
526 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
529 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
531 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
532 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
533 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
535 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
536 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
539 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
541 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
542 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
543 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
544 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
545 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
549 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
550 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
551 + update release notes in INSTALL.
552 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
555 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
556 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
557 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
559 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
562 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
563 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
564 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
565 more than 200 snapshots.
566 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
570 + updated llib-* files.
571 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
572 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
574 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
575 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
576 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
577 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
578 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
579 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
580 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
583 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
584 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
585 curs_initscr.3x page.
586 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
587 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
588 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
590 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
591 e.g., ncursestw library.
594 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
595 configuration of ncurses6.
596 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
597 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
598 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
599 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
600 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
603 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
604 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
605 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
608 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
610 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
611 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
612 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
613 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
614 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
615 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
616 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
617 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
618 setupterm and restartterm functions.
619 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
620 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
621 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
625 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
626 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
627 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
628 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
629 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
630 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
631 discussion with Sven Joachim).
632 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
635 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
636 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
637 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
638 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
639 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
640 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
641 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
642 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
643 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
644 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
645 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
646 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
647 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
648 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
651 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
652 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
653 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
654 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
655 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
656 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
657 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
658 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
661 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
662 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
663 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
664 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
665 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
667 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
668 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
671 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
672 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
673 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
674 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
676 + regenerate html manpages.
677 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
678 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
679 Stack Overflow forum):
682 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
683 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
684 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
685 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
686 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
690 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
691 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
692 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
693 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
694 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
696 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
697 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
698 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
699 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
700 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
701 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
703 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
704 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
705 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
706 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
707 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
708 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
710 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
711 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
713 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
714 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
716 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
717 the ncurses library aside from headers.
718 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
719 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
720 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
721 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
722 + update config.guess, config.sub from
723 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
726 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
727 (report by Todd M Lewis).
728 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
729 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
730 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
731 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
732 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
733 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
735 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
736 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
737 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
738 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
739 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
740 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
741 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
744 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
745 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
746 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
747 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
748 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
749 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
750 with the shared libraries.
751 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
752 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
753 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
754 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
755 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
756 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
757 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
758 inherit into new windows.
761 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
762 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
763 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
764 readonly text segment.
767 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
768 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
771 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
772 the extended putwin/getwin.
773 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
775 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
779 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
780 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
781 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
782 for a magic code at the beginning:
783 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
786 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
788 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
789 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
792 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
793 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
794 (report by Grady Martin).
797 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
798 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
799 the wide-character libraries.
800 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
802 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
803 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
806 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
807 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
808 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
812 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
813 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
816 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
817 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
818 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
819 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
820 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
823 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
824 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
825 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
828 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
829 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
830 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
832 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
833 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
834 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
835 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
836 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
837 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
838 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
839 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
840 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
841 (report by Pavel Balaev).
844 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
845 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
846 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
847 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
851 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
852 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
856 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
860 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
861 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
862 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
864 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
865 regenerate html-manpages.
868 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
869 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
871 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
872 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
873 package for ncurses6.
874 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
875 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
876 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
877 in the corresponding ".map" files.
878 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
879 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
883 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
884 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
885 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
886 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
888 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
889 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
890 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
891 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
894 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
895 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
896 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
897 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
898 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
901 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
902 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
903 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
904 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
905 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
906 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
907 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
911 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
912 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
916 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
920 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
921 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
922 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
923 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
924 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
926 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
927 (report by Mike Gran).
930 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
931 demonstration of its limitations.
932 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
933 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
934 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
935 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
936 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
937 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
938 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
940 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
941 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
944 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
945 + implement flash in win_driver.c
946 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
948 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
949 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
950 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
951 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
952 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
953 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
954 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
955 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
958 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
959 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
960 some older cross-compiler environments.
961 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
962 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
963 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
964 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
965 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
966 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
967 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
968 + update config.sub from
969 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
972 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
974 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
977 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
979 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
982 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
983 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
984 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
987 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
988 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
992 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
993 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
994 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
997 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
998 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
999 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1000 + regenerated html manpages.
1001 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1002 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1003 which reverses cause/effect.
1004 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1005 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1006 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1007 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1012 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1013 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1014 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1015 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1017 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1018 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1019 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1020 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1024 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1025 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1026 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1027 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1028 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1029 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1030 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1031 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1032 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1035 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1036 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1037 options, from xterm changes.
1040 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1041 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1045 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1046 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1049 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1050 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1051 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1052 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1053 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1054 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1055 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1058 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1059 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1060 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1061 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1062 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1063 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1064 providing directly comparable screens.
1065 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1068 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1070 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1071 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1072 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1073 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1074 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1075 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1076 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1079 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1080 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1081 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1082 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1083 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1086 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1087 overlap with sgr functionality.
1088 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1089 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1090 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1091 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1092 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1093 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1094 older ncurses than 20131207.
1095 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1096 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1097 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1098 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1099 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1102 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1103 environment variable.
1104 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1105 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1106 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1107 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1108 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1109 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1110 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1111 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1112 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1113 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1114 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1115 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1116 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1117 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1119 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1121 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1122 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1123 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1125 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1126 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1127 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1128 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1129 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1130 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1131 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1133 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1135 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1136 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1137 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1138 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1139 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1140 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1141 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1142 to be consecutive anyway.
1143 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1144 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1145 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1146 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1149 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1150 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1151 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1154 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1155 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1156 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1157 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1160 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1162 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1163 simplify later merging:
1164 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1165 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1166 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1167 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1168 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1172 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1173 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1176 + modify configure script:
1177 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1178 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1179 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1180 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1181 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1182 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1183 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1184 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1185 "#win32console", and
1186 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1187 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1190 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1191 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1192 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1193 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1194 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1195 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1199 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1202 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1203 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1204 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1205 + add terminology entry -TD
1206 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1207 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1210 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1211 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1212 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1213 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1214 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1218 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1219 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1220 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1221 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1222 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1225 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1228 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1229 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1230 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1234 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1235 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1236 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1237 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1238 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1239 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1241 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1242 html emitted by docbook.
1245 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1246 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1247 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1248 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1251 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1252 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1253 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1254 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1255 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1256 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1259 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1260 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1261 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1262 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1265 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1266 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1269 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1271 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1274 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1275 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1276 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1277 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1279 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1281 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1282 + updated llib-l* files.
1285 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1286 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1290 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1291 recognized by clang.
1294 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1295 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1296 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1297 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1298 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1299 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1300 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1301 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1302 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1303 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1304 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1305 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1307 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1309 + update config.sub from
1310 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1313 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1316 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1317 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1318 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1319 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1321 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1324 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1325 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1326 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1327 them more consistent with other packages.
1330 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1331 compiling ncurses-examples.
1332 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1335 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1338 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1339 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1340 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1341 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1342 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1346 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1347 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1351 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1352 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1354 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1356 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1357 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1358 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1359 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1360 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1363 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1364 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1365 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1368 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1370 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1371 before/after Debian #700177.
1372 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1373 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1375 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1376 of sort, improving portability.
1377 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1378 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1379 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1382 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1383 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1385 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1386 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1387 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1390 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1391 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1392 introduced by Debian #700177.
1393 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1394 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1397 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1398 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1400 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1401 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1402 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1405 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1406 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1408 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1409 cross-compile support packages.
1410 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1413 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1414 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1415 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1416 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1417 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1418 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1419 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1420 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1421 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1422 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1423 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1424 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1427 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1428 initialization of cur_term.
1431 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1432 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1435 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1436 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1437 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1438 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1439 --enable-auto-import flag.
1440 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1444 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1445 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1446 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1447 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1448 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1450 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1451 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1452 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1455 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1456 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1457 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1459 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1460 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1461 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1462 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1463 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1464 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1467 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1468 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1470 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1471 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1472 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1473 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1474 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1475 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1476 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1477 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1478 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1479 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1481 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1482 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1485 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1486 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1487 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1488 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1489 the left margin of the display.
1490 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1491 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1492 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1493 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1496 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1497 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1498 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1499 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1500 + regenerated html manpages.
1501 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1504 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1505 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1506 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1507 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1508 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1509 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1512 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1513 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1514 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1515 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1516 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1519 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1520 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1523 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1524 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1525 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1526 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1527 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1529 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1530 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1531 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1532 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1535 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1536 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1537 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1538 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1540 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1542 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1544 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1547 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1551 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1552 (report by Christian Ebert).
1553 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1554 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1555 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1558 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1559 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1560 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1561 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1562 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1563 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1564 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1565 by Benjamin Sittler)
1566 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1567 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1568 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1569 line split after "%;".
1570 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1571 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1574 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1575 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1576 + regenerated html manpages.
1577 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1578 + updated some autoconf macros:
1579 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1580 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1581 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1582 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1583 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1584 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1585 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1586 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1589 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1590 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1592 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1593 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1595 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1596 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1597 of raw input in MinGW port.
1600 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1601 + update config.guess, config.sub
1604 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1606 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1608 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1609 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1610 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1611 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1612 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1613 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1614 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1616 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1617 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1620 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1621 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1623 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1624 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1625 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1628 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1629 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1630 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1633 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1634 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1635 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1636 help reduce flicker.
1637 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1638 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1639 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1640 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1641 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1642 Dennis Grevenstein).
1643 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1644 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1645 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1648 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1649 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1650 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1651 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1652 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1653 + improve error-checking in copywin
1654 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1655 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1656 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1657 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1658 matching capability names.
1659 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1660 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1661 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1664 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1665 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1666 are unused in the current driver model.
1667 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1669 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1670 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1671 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1672 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1675 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1676 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1678 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1679 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1680 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1681 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1682 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1685 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1686 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1687 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1691 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1693 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1694 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1696 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1697 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1698 wide-character which can be used.
1701 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1702 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1703 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1704 by Erwin Waterlander).
1705 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1706 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1707 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1708 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1709 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1710 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1714 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1715 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1716 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1717 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1718 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1719 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1720 + remove a few redundant checks.
1721 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1723 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1724 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1725 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1726 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1728 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1729 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1730 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1734 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1735 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1736 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1740 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1741 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1742 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1743 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1746 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1747 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1748 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1749 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1750 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1751 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1752 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1753 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1755 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1756 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1757 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1758 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1761 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1762 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1763 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1765 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1766 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1767 libraries or executables.
1770 + realign these related pages:
1775 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1776 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1777 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1778 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1779 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1780 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1781 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1782 based on testing with tack -TD
1783 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1784 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1787 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1789 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1790 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1791 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1794 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1798 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1799 (patch by Christian Persch).
1802 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1804 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1805 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1806 has used that for a while.
1807 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1808 for experimental use.
1809 + remove unused configure macros.
1810 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1811 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1812 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1813 + update config.guess, config.sub
1816 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1817 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1818 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1819 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1820 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1821 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1822 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1825 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1826 to help with MinGW port.
1829 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1831 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1834 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1837 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1838 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1839 might not be allocated.
1840 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1843 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1844 initial screen-sizes.
1845 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1846 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1850 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1851 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1855 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1856 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1857 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1859 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1860 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1863 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1864 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1865 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1866 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1867 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1868 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1869 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1873 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1874 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1875 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1876 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1877 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1878 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1879 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1880 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1884 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1885 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1886 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1887 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1888 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1889 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1892 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1896 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1898 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1900 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1901 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1902 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1903 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1904 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1905 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1908 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1910 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1911 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1912 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1914 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1915 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1918 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1919 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1920 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1923 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1924 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1926 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1927 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1929 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1930 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1933 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1935 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1936 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1937 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1938 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1939 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1940 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1943 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1944 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1945 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1946 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1947 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1948 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1949 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1950 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1951 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1953 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1954 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1955 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1956 Onno van der Linden).
1959 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1961 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1963 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1964 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1967 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1968 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1969 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1970 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1971 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1972 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1973 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1976 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1977 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1978 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1979 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1980 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1981 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1982 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1983 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1984 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1985 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1986 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1987 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1988 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1989 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1990 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1993 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1994 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1995 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1996 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1997 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1998 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1999 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2000 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2001 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2002 are interpreted as key definitions.
2003 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2004 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2008 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2009 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2010 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2011 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2012 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2013 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2014 as building-blocks -TD
2015 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2018 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2019 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2020 title is a status-line. -TD
2021 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2022 of ordering and overrides -TD
2023 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2024 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2025 used in that file -TD
2028 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2029 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2030 definable capabilities.
2031 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2032 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2033 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2034 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2035 embedded in the description.
2036 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2037 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2038 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2039 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2040 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2041 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2044 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2045 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2046 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2047 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2048 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2049 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2050 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2051 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2054 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2055 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2056 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2057 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2058 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2059 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2062 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2063 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2064 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2066 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2067 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2068 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2069 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2072 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2073 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2074 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2077 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2078 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2079 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2081 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2082 calls to setupterm().
2083 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2085 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2086 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2087 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2089 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2093 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2096 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2098 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2099 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2100 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2101 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2102 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2103 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2105 + update config.guess, config.sub
2108 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2109 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2110 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2111 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2112 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2113 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2114 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2115 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2116 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2119 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2120 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2121 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2122 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2123 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2124 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2125 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2126 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2127 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2128 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2129 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2130 Linux versus most other systems.
2133 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2137 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2138 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2139 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2140 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2141 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2142 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2143 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2144 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2145 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2146 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2147 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2148 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2149 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2150 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2153 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2155 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2157 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2158 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2159 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2160 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2163 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2165 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2166 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2167 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2168 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2169 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2171 + regenerated html manpages.
2174 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2175 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2176 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2177 + change recommended regular expression library.
2178 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2179 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2182 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2183 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2184 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2185 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2186 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2187 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2188 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2192 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2193 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2195 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2198 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2200 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2202 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2203 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2204 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2206 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2208 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2211 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2212 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2213 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2214 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2216 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2217 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2218 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2221 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2222 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2224 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2227 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2229 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2231 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2233 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2234 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2235 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2236 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2237 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2238 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2239 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2242 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2243 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2245 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2246 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2247 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2248 database (cf: 20111001).
2251 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2252 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2253 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2255 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2256 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2258 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2259 in older FreeBSD machines.
2260 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2261 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2262 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2265 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2266 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2267 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2268 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2269 root's home directory.
2270 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2271 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2272 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2273 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2274 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2276 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2277 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2278 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2279 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2280 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2281 (report by Peter Kruse).
2284 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2285 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2287 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2289 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2290 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2291 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2294 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2295 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2296 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2297 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2298 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2299 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2302 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2303 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2304 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2305 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2306 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2309 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2310 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2311 input and output of termcap source.
2312 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2313 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2314 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2315 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2316 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2317 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2318 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2319 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2320 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2323 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2326 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2328 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2329 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2330 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2331 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2333 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2336 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2337 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2339 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2340 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2343 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2344 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2346 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2347 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2349 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2350 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2351 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2352 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2354 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2355 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2356 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2357 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2359 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2360 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2363 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2364 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2365 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2366 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2369 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2370 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2371 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2372 + add terminator entry -TD
2373 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2374 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2375 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2379 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2380 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2381 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2382 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2383 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2384 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2385 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2386 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2387 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2388 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2392 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2393 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2394 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2395 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2396 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2397 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2399 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2400 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2401 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2403 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2406 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2407 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2408 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2409 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2411 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2412 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2414 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2415 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2416 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2417 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2418 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2419 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2420 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2421 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2423 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2424 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2426 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2427 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2428 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2429 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2430 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2431 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2432 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2433 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2434 translating to termcap.
2435 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2436 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2439 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2440 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2441 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2442 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2443 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2444 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2446 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2447 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2448 regarding Schilling's test program):
2449 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2450 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2451 + use \040 rather than \s
2452 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2453 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2456 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2457 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2458 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2459 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2460 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2461 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2462 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2463 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2464 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2465 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2466 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2467 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2470 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2471 are not used in the $CC variable.
2472 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2473 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2474 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2475 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2476 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2477 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2480 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2481 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2485 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2486 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2487 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2488 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2489 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2491 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2492 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2494 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2497 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2498 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2501 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2502 + set default prefix to /usr.
2503 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2504 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2505 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2506 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2509 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2510 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2511 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2512 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2514 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2515 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2519 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2522 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2523 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2524 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2526 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2527 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2528 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2529 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2532 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2533 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2534 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2535 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2536 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2537 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2538 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2539 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2540 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2541 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2542 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2545 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2546 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2548 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2549 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2550 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2551 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2554 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2555 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2556 as different types on some Unix systems.
2557 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2558 function pointer passed to tputs().
2559 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2560 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2561 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2562 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2565 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2566 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2567 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2568 + update config.guess, config.sub
2571 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2573 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2574 some ncurses packages.
2575 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2576 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2577 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2579 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2582 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2583 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2584 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2585 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2586 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2587 needed for rpm script.
2588 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2589 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2590 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2593 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2594 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2595 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2596 that sample program.
2597 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2598 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2599 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2600 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2604 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2606 + regen Ada html documentation.
2607 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2608 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2610 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2612 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2613 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2614 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2615 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2616 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2617 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2619 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2620 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2622 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2623 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2626 + regen Ada html documentation.
2627 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2628 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2630 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2631 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2632 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2633 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2634 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2635 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2636 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2637 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2638 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2639 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2640 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2641 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2642 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2643 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2644 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2645 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2646 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2647 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2648 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2651 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2652 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2653 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2655 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2657 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2658 explain.txt is not found.
2661 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2662 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2663 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2664 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2665 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2667 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2670 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2671 + regenerated html manpages.
2672 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2674 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2675 a new install of hashed database.
2676 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2679 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2680 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2681 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2682 wide-character configuration.
2683 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2684 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2687 + regenerated html manpages.
2688 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2689 special case of trace configuration.
2692 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2693 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2694 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2695 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2696 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2700 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2701 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2702 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2703 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2704 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2706 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2707 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2710 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2711 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2712 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2713 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2714 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2715 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2716 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2717 file configuration if that is used.
2718 + update config.guess, config.sub
2721 + regenerated html manpages.
2722 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2724 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2725 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2728 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2729 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2732 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2733 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2734 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2737 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2739 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2740 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2741 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2742 wide-character configuration.
2743 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2744 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2745 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2748 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2749 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2750 version which works with termcap.
2751 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2752 (request by Sven Joachim).
2753 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2754 (report by Sven Joachim).
2757 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2758 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2759 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2762 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2764 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2765 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2768 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2770 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2771 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2772 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2773 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2774 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2775 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2779 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2780 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2781 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2783 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2786 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2788 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2792 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2794 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2795 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2796 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2797 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2798 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2799 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2800 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2801 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2802 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2803 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2804 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2805 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2808 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2809 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2810 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2811 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2812 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2813 external package "cindent".
2816 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2817 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2818 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2819 inconsistent printer-controls.
2820 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2821 form is available -TD
2822 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2824 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2826 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2827 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2828 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2829 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2830 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2832 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2833 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2837 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2838 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2839 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2840 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2841 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2843 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2846 + regenerated html manpages.
2847 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2848 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2849 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2852 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2854 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2855 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2856 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2857 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2861 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2862 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2865 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2866 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2867 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2868 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2869 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2870 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2871 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2875 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2876 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2877 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2878 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2879 by Tim van der Molen).
2880 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2881 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2882 library configuration.
2883 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2884 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2885 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2888 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2890 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2891 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2892 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2893 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2894 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2897 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2898 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2899 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2900 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2901 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2902 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2903 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2904 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2907 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2908 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2909 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2910 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2911 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2912 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2913 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2914 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2917 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2918 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2919 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2920 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2923 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2924 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2925 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2928 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2929 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2930 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2933 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2934 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2935 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2936 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2939 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2940 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2941 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2943 + update Ada95/configure.
2944 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2945 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2946 of updating LIBS variable.
2949 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2950 work with 64-bit compiles.
2951 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2955 + regenerated html documentation.
2956 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2958 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2959 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2960 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2961 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2964 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2965 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2967 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2968 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2969 build- and target-machines differ.
2970 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2971 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2973 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2974 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2977 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2978 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2979 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2980 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2981 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2982 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2983 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2984 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2985 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2986 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2987 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2988 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2989 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2990 found in predefined libraries.
2991 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2994 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2995 (patch by David Benjamin).
2996 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2997 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2998 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2999 may be defined by that route.
3002 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3003 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3004 the predefined include directories.
3005 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3006 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3007 where older versions would produce an error.
3010 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3011 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3012 terminfo to termcap strings
3013 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3014 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3015 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3016 directory was already added.
3017 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3018 directories (which will be ignored).
3021 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3022 + discard motion events
3023 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3024 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3025 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3026 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3029 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3030 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3031 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3032 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3033 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3034 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3035 extended-colors configuration.
3036 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3037 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3038 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3041 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3043 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3044 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3045 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3047 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3048 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3049 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3052 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3053 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3057 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3058 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3059 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3060 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3061 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3062 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3063 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3064 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3065 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3069 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3070 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3071 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3072 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3075 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3077 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3078 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3079 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3082 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3083 making those separately distributable.
3084 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3085 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3089 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3092 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3093 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3094 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3095 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3099 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3100 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3101 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3102 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3105 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3106 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3107 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3108 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3110 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3111 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3112 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3113 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3117 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3118 that line-drawing works.
3119 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3120 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3121 capabilities can run.
3122 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3126 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3127 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3128 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3129 before older in the list.
3130 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3131 + minor documentation cleanup.
3132 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3133 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3134 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3137 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3138 most common case of SGR 0.
3139 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3140 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3141 events remain, it will return ERR.
3144 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3145 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3146 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3147 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3148 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3151 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3152 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3153 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3156 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3157 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3158 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3159 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3160 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3161 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3164 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3165 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3166 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3167 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3168 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3170 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3172 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3174 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3175 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3176 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3178 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3179 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3182 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3183 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3185 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3186 writing terminfo entries.
3187 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3188 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3189 by Nicholas Marriott).
3192 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3194 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3195 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3199 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3200 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3201 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3202 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3203 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3207 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3208 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3209 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3210 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3213 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3214 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3215 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3216 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3217 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3218 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3219 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3222 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3223 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3224 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3225 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3226 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3227 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3228 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3229 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3230 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3231 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3232 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3235 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3236 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3237 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3238 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3241 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3242 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3245 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3246 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3247 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3251 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3252 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3253 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3254 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3255 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3257 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3258 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3261 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3262 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3263 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3264 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3265 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3266 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3268 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3269 library (some work remains for forms library).
3272 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3273 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3274 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3275 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3277 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3278 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3279 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3280 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3283 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3284 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3287 test/test_addchstr.c
3288 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3289 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3290 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3291 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3294 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3296 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3297 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3298 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3299 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3303 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3304 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3305 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3306 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3309 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3310 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3311 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3314 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3317 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3318 broken in 20090510 merging.
3319 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3320 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3321 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3322 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3323 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3324 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3325 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3326 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3328 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3331 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3332 implementation details of hash function.
3335 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3336 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3337 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3340 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3341 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3342 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3343 test/demo_terminfo.c
3344 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3345 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3348 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3349 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3353 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3356 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3358 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3359 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3360 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3361 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3362 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3364 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3365 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3366 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3369 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3370 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3371 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3374 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3375 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3377 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3380 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3381 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3383 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3384 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3388 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3389 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3390 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3393 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3396 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3399 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3400 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3401 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3402 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3405 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3408 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3409 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3410 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3411 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3415 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3418 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3419 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3422 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3425 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3429 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3432 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3433 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3434 part of the form library.
3437 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3438 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3441 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3442 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3443 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3444 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3445 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3446 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
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