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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 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
53 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
54 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
55 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
57 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
58 regenerate html-manpages.
61 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
62 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
64 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
65 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
67 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
68 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
69 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
70 in the corresponding ".map" files.
71 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
72 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
76 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
77 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
78 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
79 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
81 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
82 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
83 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
84 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
87 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
88 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
89 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
90 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
91 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
94 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
95 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
96 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
97 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
98 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
99 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
100 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
104 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
105 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
109 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
113 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
114 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
115 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
116 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
117 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
119 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
120 (report by Mike Gran).
123 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
124 demonstration of its limitations.
125 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
126 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
127 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
128 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
129 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
130 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
131 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
133 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
134 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
137 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
138 + implement flash in win_driver.c
139 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
141 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
142 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
143 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
144 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
145 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
146 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
147 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
148 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
151 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
152 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
153 some older cross-compiler environments.
154 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
155 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
156 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
157 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
158 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
159 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
160 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
161 + update config.sub from
162 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
165 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
167 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
170 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
172 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
175 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
176 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
177 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
180 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
181 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
185 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
186 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
187 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
190 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
191 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
192 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
193 + regenerated html manpages.
194 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
195 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
196 which reverses cause/effect.
197 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
198 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
199 + fixes for win_driver.c:
200 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
205 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
206 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
207 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
208 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
210 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
211 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
212 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
213 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
217 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
218 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
219 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
220 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
221 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
222 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
223 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
224 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
225 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
228 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
229 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
230 options, from xterm changes.
233 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
234 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
238 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
239 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
242 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
243 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
244 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
245 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
246 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
247 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
248 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
251 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
252 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
253 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
254 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
255 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
256 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
257 providing directly comparable screens.
258 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
261 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
263 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
264 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
265 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
266 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
267 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
268 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
269 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
272 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
273 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
274 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
275 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
276 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
279 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
280 overlap with sgr functionality.
281 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
282 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
283 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
284 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
285 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
286 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
287 older ncurses than 20131207.
288 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
289 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
290 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
291 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
292 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
295 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
296 environment variable.
297 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
298 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
299 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
300 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
301 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
302 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
303 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
304 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
305 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
306 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
307 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
308 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
309 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
310 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
312 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
314 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
315 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
316 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
318 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
319 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
320 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
321 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
322 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
323 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
324 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
326 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
328 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
329 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
330 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
331 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
332 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
333 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
334 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
335 to be consecutive anyway.
336 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
337 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
338 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
339 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
342 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
343 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
344 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
347 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
348 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
349 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
350 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
353 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
355 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
356 simplify later merging:
357 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
358 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
359 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
360 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
361 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
365 + update config.guess, config.sub from
366 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
369 + modify configure script:
370 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
371 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
372 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
373 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
374 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
375 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
376 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
377 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
379 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
380 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
383 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
384 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
385 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
386 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
387 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
388 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
392 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
395 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
396 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
397 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
398 + add terminology entry -TD
399 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
400 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
403 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
404 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
405 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
406 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
407 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
411 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
412 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
413 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
414 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
415 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
418 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
421 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
422 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
423 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
427 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
428 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
429 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
430 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
431 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
432 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
434 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
435 html emitted by docbook.
438 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
439 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
440 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
441 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
444 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
445 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
446 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
447 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
448 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
449 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
452 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
453 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
454 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
455 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
458 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
459 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
462 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
464 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
467 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
468 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
469 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
470 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
472 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
474 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
475 + updated llib-l* files.
478 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
479 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
483 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
487 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
488 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
489 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
490 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
491 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
492 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
493 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
494 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
495 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
496 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
497 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
498 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
499 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
500 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
502 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
504 + update config.sub from
505 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
508 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
511 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
512 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
513 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
514 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
516 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
519 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
520 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
521 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
522 them more consistent with other packages.
525 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
526 compiling ncurses-examples.
527 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
530 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
533 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
534 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
535 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
536 cross-compiles to MinGW.
537 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
541 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
542 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
546 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
547 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
549 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
551 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
552 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
553 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
554 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
555 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
558 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
559 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
560 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
563 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
565 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
566 before/after Debian #700177.
567 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
568 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
570 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
571 of sort, improving portability.
572 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
573 + update config.guess, config.sub from
574 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
577 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
578 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
580 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
581 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
582 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
585 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
586 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
587 introduced by Debian #700177.
588 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
589 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
592 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
593 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
595 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
596 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
597 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
600 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
601 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
603 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
604 cross-compile support packages.
605 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
608 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
609 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
610 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
611 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
612 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
613 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
614 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
615 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
616 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
617 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
618 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
619 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
622 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
623 initialization of cur_term.
626 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
627 + minor compiler-warning fixes
630 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
631 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
632 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
633 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
634 --enable-auto-import flag.
635 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
639 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
640 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
641 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
642 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
643 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
645 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
646 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
647 (patch by Eric Raymond).
650 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
651 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
652 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
654 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
655 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
656 not printing the full pathname of the program.
657 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
658 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
659 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
662 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
663 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
665 + add test/dots_termcap.c
666 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
667 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
668 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
669 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
670 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
671 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
672 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
673 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
674 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
676 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
677 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
680 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
681 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
682 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
683 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
684 the left margin of the display.
685 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
686 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
687 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
688 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
691 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
692 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
693 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
694 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
695 + regenerated html manpages.
696 + update doctype used for html documentation.
699 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
700 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
701 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
702 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
703 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
704 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
707 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
708 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
709 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
710 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
711 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
714 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
715 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
718 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
719 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
720 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
721 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
722 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
724 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
725 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
726 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
727 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
730 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
731 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
732 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
733 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
735 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
737 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
739 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
742 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
746 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
747 (report by Christian Ebert).
748 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
749 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
750 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
753 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
754 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
755 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
756 add bold for consistency with sgr,
757 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
758 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
759 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
761 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
762 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
763 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
764 line split after "%;".
765 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
766 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
769 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
770 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
771 + regenerated html manpages.
772 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
773 + updated some autoconf macros:
774 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
775 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
776 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
777 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
778 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
779 configuration (Redhat #911540).
780 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
781 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
784 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
785 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
787 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
788 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
790 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
791 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
792 of raw input in MinGW port.
795 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
796 + update config.guess, config.sub
799 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
801 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
803 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
804 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
805 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
806 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
807 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
808 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
809 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
811 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
812 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
815 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
816 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
818 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
819 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
820 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
823 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
824 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
825 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
828 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
829 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
830 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
832 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
833 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
834 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
835 by Dennis Grevenstein).
836 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
838 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
839 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
840 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
843 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
844 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
845 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
846 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
847 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
848 + improve error-checking in copywin
849 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
850 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
851 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
852 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
853 matching capability names.
854 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
855 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
856 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
859 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
860 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
861 are unused in the current driver model.
862 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
864 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
865 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
866 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
867 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
870 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
871 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
873 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
874 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
875 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
876 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
877 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
880 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
881 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
882 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
886 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
888 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
889 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
891 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
892 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
893 wide-character which can be used.
896 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
897 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
898 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
899 by Erwin Waterlander).
900 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
901 > fixes based on Coverity report:
902 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
903 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
904 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
905 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
909 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
910 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
911 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
912 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
913 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
914 > fixes based on Coverity report:
915 + remove a few redundant checks.
916 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
918 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
919 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
920 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
921 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
923 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
924 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
925 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
929 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
930 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
931 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
935 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
936 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
937 > fixes based on Coverity report:
938 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
941 > fixes based on Coverity report:
942 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
943 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
944 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
945 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
946 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
947 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
948 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
950 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
951 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
952 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
953 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
956 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
957 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
958 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
960 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
961 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
962 libraries or executables.
965 + realign these related pages:
970 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
971 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
972 (report by Reuben Thomas).
973 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
974 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
975 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
976 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
977 based on testing with tack -TD
978 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
979 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
982 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
984 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
985 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
986 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
989 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
993 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
994 (patch by Christian Persch).
997 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
999 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1000 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1001 has used that for a while.
1002 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1003 for experimental use.
1004 + remove unused configure macros.
1005 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1006 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1007 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1008 + update config.guess, config.sub
1011 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1012 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1013 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1014 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1015 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1016 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1017 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1020 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1021 to help with MinGW port.
1024 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1026 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1029 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1032 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1033 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1034 might not be allocated.
1035 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1038 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1039 initial screen-sizes.
1040 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1041 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1045 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1046 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1050 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1051 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1052 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1054 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1055 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1058 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1059 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1060 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1061 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1062 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1063 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1064 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1068 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1069 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1070 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1071 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1072 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1073 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1074 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1075 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1079 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1080 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1081 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1082 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1083 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1084 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1087 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1091 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1093 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1095 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1096 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1097 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1098 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1099 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1100 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1103 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1105 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1106 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1107 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1109 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1110 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1113 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1114 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1115 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1118 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1119 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1121 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1122 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1124 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1125 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1128 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1130 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1131 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1132 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1133 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1134 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1135 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1138 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1139 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1140 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1141 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1142 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1143 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1144 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1145 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1146 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1148 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1149 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1150 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1151 Onno van der Linden).
1154 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1156 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1158 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1159 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1162 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1163 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1164 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1165 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1166 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1167 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1168 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1171 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1172 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1173 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1174 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1175 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1176 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1177 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1178 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1179 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1180 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1181 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1182 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1183 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1184 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1185 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1188 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1189 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1190 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1191 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1192 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1193 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1194 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1195 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1196 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1197 are interpreted as key definitions.
1198 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1199 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1203 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1204 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1205 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1206 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1207 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1208 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1209 as building-blocks -TD
1210 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1213 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1214 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1215 title is a status-line. -TD
1216 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1217 of ordering and overrides -TD
1218 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1219 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1220 used in that file -TD
1223 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1224 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1225 definable capabilities.
1226 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1227 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1228 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1229 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1230 embedded in the description.
1231 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1232 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1233 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1234 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1235 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1236 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1239 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1240 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1241 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1242 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1243 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1244 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1245 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1246 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1249 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1250 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1251 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1252 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1253 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1254 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1257 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1258 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1259 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1261 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1262 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1263 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1264 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1267 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1268 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1269 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1272 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1273 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1274 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1276 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1277 calls to setupterm().
1278 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1280 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1281 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1282 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1284 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1288 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1291 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1293 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1294 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1295 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1296 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1297 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1298 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1300 + update config.guess, config.sub
1303 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1304 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1305 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1306 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1307 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1308 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1309 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1310 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1311 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1314 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1315 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1316 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1317 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1318 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1319 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1320 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1321 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1322 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1323 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1324 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1325 Linux versus most other systems.
1328 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1332 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1333 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1334 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1335 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1336 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1337 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1338 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1339 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1340 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1341 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1342 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1343 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1344 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1345 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1348 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1350 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1352 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1353 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1354 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1355 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1358 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1360 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1361 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1362 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1363 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1364 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1366 + regenerated html manpages.
1369 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1370 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1371 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1372 + change recommended regular expression library.
1373 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1374 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1377 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1378 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1379 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1380 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1381 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1382 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1383 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1387 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1388 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1390 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1393 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1395 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1397 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1398 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1399 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1401 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1403 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1406 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1407 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1408 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1409 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1411 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1412 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1413 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1416 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1417 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1419 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1422 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1424 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1426 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1428 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1429 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1430 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1431 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1432 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1433 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1434 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1437 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1438 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1440 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1441 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1442 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1443 database (cf: 20111001).
1446 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1447 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1448 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1450 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1451 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1453 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1454 in older FreeBSD machines.
1455 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1456 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1457 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1460 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1461 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1462 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1463 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1464 root's home directory.
1465 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1466 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1467 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1468 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1469 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1471 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1472 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1473 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1474 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1475 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1476 (report by Peter Kruse).
1479 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1480 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1482 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1484 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1485 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1486 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1489 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1490 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1491 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1492 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1493 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1494 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1497 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1498 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1499 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1500 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1501 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1504 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1505 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1506 input and output of termcap source.
1507 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1508 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1509 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1510 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1511 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1512 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1513 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1514 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1515 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1518 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1521 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1523 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1524 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1525 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1526 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1528 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1531 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1532 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1534 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1535 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1538 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1539 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1541 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1542 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1544 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1545 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1546 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1547 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1549 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1550 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1551 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1552 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1554 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1555 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1558 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1559 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1560 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1561 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1564 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1565 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1566 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1567 + add terminator entry -TD
1568 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1569 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1570 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1574 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1575 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1576 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1577 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1578 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1579 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1580 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1581 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1582 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1583 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1587 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1588 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1589 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1590 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1591 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1592 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1594 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1595 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1596 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1598 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1601 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1602 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1603 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1604 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1606 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1607 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1609 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1610 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1611 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1612 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1613 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1614 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1615 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1616 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1618 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1619 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1621 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1622 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1623 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1624 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1625 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1626 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1627 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1628 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1629 translating to termcap.
1630 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1631 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1634 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1635 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1636 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1637 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1638 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1639 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1641 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1642 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1643 regarding Schilling's test program):
1644 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1645 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1646 + use \040 rather than \s
1647 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1648 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1651 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1652 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1653 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1654 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1655 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1656 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1657 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1658 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1659 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1660 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1661 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1662 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1665 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1666 are not used in the $CC variable.
1667 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1668 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1669 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1670 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1671 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1672 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1675 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1676 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1680 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1681 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1682 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1683 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1684 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1686 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1687 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1689 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1692 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1693 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1696 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1697 + set default prefix to /usr.
1698 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1699 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1700 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1701 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1704 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1705 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1706 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1707 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1709 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1710 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1714 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1717 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1718 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1719 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1721 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1722 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1723 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1724 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1727 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1728 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1729 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1730 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1731 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1732 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1733 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1734 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1735 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1736 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1737 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1740 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1741 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1743 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1744 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1745 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1746 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1749 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1750 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1751 as different types on some Unix systems.
1752 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1753 function pointer passed to tputs().
1754 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1755 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1756 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1757 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1760 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1761 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1762 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1763 + update config.guess, config.sub
1766 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1768 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1769 some ncurses packages.
1770 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1771 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1772 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1774 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1777 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1778 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1779 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1780 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1781 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1782 needed for rpm script.
1783 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1784 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1785 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1788 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1789 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1790 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1791 that sample program.
1792 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1793 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1794 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1795 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1799 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1801 + regen Ada html documentation.
1802 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1803 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1805 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1807 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1808 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1809 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1810 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1811 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1812 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1814 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1815 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1817 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1818 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1821 + regen Ada html documentation.
1822 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1823 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1825 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1826 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1827 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1828 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1829 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1830 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1831 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1832 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1833 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1834 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1835 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1836 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1837 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1838 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1839 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1840 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1841 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1842 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1843 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1846 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1847 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1848 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1850 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1852 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1853 explain.txt is not found.
1856 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1857 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1858 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1859 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1860 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1862 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1865 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1866 + regenerated html manpages.
1867 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1869 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1870 a new install of hashed database.
1871 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1874 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1875 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1876 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1877 wide-character configuration.
1878 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1879 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1882 + regenerated html manpages.
1883 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1884 special case of trace configuration.
1887 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1888 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1889 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1890 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1891 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1895 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1896 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1897 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1898 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1899 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1901 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1902 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1905 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1906 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1907 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1908 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1909 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1910 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1911 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1912 file configuration if that is used.
1913 + update config.guess, config.sub
1916 + regenerated html manpages.
1917 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1919 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1920 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1923 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1924 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1927 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1928 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1929 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1932 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1934 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1935 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1936 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1937 wide-character configuration.
1938 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1939 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1940 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1943 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1944 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1945 version which works with termcap.
1946 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1947 (request by Sven Joachim).
1948 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1949 (report by Sven Joachim).
1952 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1953 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1954 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1957 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1959 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1960 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1963 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1965 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1966 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1967 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1968 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1969 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1970 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1974 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1975 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1976 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1978 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1981 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1983 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1987 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1989 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1990 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1991 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1992 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1993 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1994 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1995 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1996 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1997 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1998 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1999 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2000 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2003 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2004 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2005 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2006 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2007 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2008 external package "cindent".
2011 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2012 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2013 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2014 inconsistent printer-controls.
2015 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2016 form is available -TD
2017 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2019 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2021 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2022 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2023 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2024 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2025 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2027 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2028 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2032 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2033 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2034 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2035 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2036 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2038 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2041 + regenerated html manpages.
2042 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2043 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2044 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2047 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2049 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2050 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2051 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2052 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2056 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2057 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2060 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2061 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2062 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2063 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2064 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2065 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2066 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2070 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2071 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2072 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2073 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2074 by Tim van der Molen).
2075 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2076 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2077 library configuration.
2078 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2079 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2080 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2083 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2085 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2086 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2087 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2088 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2089 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2092 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2093 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2094 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2095 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2096 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2097 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2098 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2099 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2102 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2103 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2104 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2105 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2106 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2107 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2108 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2109 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2112 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2113 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2114 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2115 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2118 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2119 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2120 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2123 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2124 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2125 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2128 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2129 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2130 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2131 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2134 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2135 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2136 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2138 + update Ada95/configure.
2139 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2140 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2141 of updating LIBS variable.
2144 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2145 work with 64-bit compiles.
2146 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2150 + regenerated html documentation.
2151 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2153 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2154 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2155 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2156 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2159 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2160 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2162 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2163 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2164 build- and target-machines differ.
2165 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2166 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2168 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2169 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2172 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2173 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2174 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2175 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2176 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2177 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2178 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2179 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2180 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2181 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2182 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2183 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2184 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2185 found in predefined libraries.
2186 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2189 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2190 (patch by David Benjamin).
2191 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2192 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2193 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2194 may be defined by that route.
2197 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2198 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2199 the predefined include directories.
2200 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2201 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2202 where older versions would produce an error.
2205 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2206 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2207 terminfo to termcap strings
2208 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2209 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2210 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2211 directory was already added.
2212 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2213 directories (which will be ignored).
2216 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2217 + discard motion events
2218 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2219 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2220 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2221 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2224 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2225 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2226 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2227 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2228 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2229 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2230 extended-colors configuration.
2231 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2232 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2233 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2236 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2238 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2239 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2240 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2242 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2243 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2244 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2247 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2248 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2252 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2253 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2254 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2255 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2256 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2257 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2258 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2259 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2260 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2264 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2265 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2266 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2267 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2270 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2272 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2273 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2274 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2277 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2278 making those separately distributable.
2279 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2280 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2284 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2287 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2288 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2289 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2290 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2294 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2295 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2296 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2297 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2300 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2301 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2302 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2303 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2305 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2306 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2307 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2308 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2312 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2313 that line-drawing works.
2314 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2315 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2316 capabilities can run.
2317 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2321 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2322 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2323 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2324 before older in the list.
2325 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2326 + minor documentation cleanup.
2327 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2328 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2329 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2332 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2333 most common case of SGR 0.
2334 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2335 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2336 events remain, it will return ERR.
2339 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2340 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2341 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2342 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2343 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2346 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2347 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2348 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2351 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2352 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2353 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2354 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2355 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2356 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2359 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2360 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2361 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2362 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2363 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2365 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2367 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2369 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2370 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2371 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2373 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2374 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2377 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2378 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2380 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2381 writing terminfo entries.
2382 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2383 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2384 by Nicholas Marriott).
2387 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2389 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2390 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2394 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2395 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2396 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2397 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2398 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2402 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2403 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2404 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2405 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2408 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2409 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2410 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2411 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2412 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2413 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2414 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2417 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2418 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2419 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2420 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2421 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2422 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2423 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2424 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2425 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2426 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2427 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2430 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2431 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2432 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2433 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2436 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2437 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2440 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2441 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2442 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2446 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2447 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2448 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2449 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2450 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2452 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2453 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2456 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2457 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2458 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2459 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2460 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2461 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2463 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2464 library (some work remains for forms library).
2467 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2468 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2469 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2470 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2472 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2473 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2474 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2475 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2478 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2479 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2482 test/test_addchstr.c
2483 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2484 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2485 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2486 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2489 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2491 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2492 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2493 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2494 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2498 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2499 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2500 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2501 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2504 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2505 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2506 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2509 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2512 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2513 broken in 20090510 merging.
2514 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2515 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2516 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2517 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2518 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2519 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2520 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2521 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2523 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2526 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2527 implementation details of hash function.
2530 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2531 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2532 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2535 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2536 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2537 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2538 test/demo_terminfo.c
2539 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2540 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2543 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2544 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2548 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2551 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2553 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2554 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2555 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2556 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2557 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2559 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2560 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2561 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2564 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2565 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2566 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2569 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2570 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2572 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2575 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2576 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2578 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2579 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2583 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2584 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2585 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2588 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2591 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2594 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2595 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2596 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2597 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2600 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2603 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2604 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2605 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2606 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2610 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2613 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2614 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2617 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2620 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2624 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2627 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2628 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2629 part of the form library.
2632 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2633 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2636 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2637 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2638 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2639 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2640 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2641 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2642 a temporary variable.
2643 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2644 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2645 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2646 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2647 with Charles Wilson).
2648 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2649 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2650 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2651 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2652 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2653 digits, after the final '.').
2654 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2655 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2656 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2657 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2658 from 20090321 changes.
2659 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2660 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2661 termlib) is to be linked.
2662 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2663 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2666 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2667 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2668 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2669 (report by Charles Wilson).
2670 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2671 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2672 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2673 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2674 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2677 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2678 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2679 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2680 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2681 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2683 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2684 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2685 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2686 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2687 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2688 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2689 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2690 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2693 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2694 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2695 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2698 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2701 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2703 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2704 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2705 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2706 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2707 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2710 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2711 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2712 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2713 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2714 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2715 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2718 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2719 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2721 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2722 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2723 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2726 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2727 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2728 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2729 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2730 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2731 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2732 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2733 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2734 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2737 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2738 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2740 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2742 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2743 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2746 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2748 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2749 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2750 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2751 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2754 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2755 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2756 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2758 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2759 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2762 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2763 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2764 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2765 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2766 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2767 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2769 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2770 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2772 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2773 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2776 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2777 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2778 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2781 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2782 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2783 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2785 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2786 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2789 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2791 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2792 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2793 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2795 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2796 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2797 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2798 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2799 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2800 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2802 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2803 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2806 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2807 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2808 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2809 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2810 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2811 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2812 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2813 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2814 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2815 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2816 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2819 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2820 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2821 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2822 passing color or video attributes.
2823 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2824 display meta-characters.
2825 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2826 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2827 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2828 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2832 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2833 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2834 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2836 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2839 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2841 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2842 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2844 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2847 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2848 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2849 does not work well on that platform).
2850 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2853 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2854 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2855 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2857 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2858 --disable-database is used.
2859 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2860 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2861 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2862 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2866 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2867 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2868 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2869 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2870 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2871 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2872 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2876 + regenerated html documentation.
2877 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2878 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2879 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2880 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2881 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2882 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2883 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2884 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2887 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2888 works for C/C++ parts).
2889 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2890 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2893 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2894 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2895 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2896 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2897 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2898 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2899 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2900 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2901 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2903 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2904 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2905 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2906 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2907 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2908 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2911 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2912 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2915 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2916 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2917 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2918 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2919 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2920 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2923 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2924 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2927 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2931 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2932 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2933 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2934 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2936 + update test/configure script.
2937 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2938 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2939 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2940 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2941 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2944 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2945 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2947 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2949 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2950 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2951 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2952 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2953 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2954 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2955 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2956 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2957 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2960 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2961 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2962 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2963 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2964 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2965 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2966 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2967 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2968 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2969 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2970 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2974 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2975 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2976 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2977 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2978 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2980 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2981 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2982 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2983 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2984 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2987 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2988 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2989 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2990 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2991 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2992 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2993 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2996 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3000 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3003 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3006 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3007 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3009 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3010 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3011 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3015 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3016 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3018 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3019 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3020 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3021 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3024 + regenerated html documentation.
3025 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3026 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3027 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3028 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3029 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3032 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3033 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3034 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3038 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3039 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3040 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3041 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3042 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3043 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3046 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3047 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3049 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3050 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3051 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3052 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3053 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3054 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3055 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3056 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3057 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3060 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3061 screen which must be updated.
3062 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3063 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3064 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3068 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3069 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3071 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3072 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3073 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3074 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3077 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3078 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3079 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3081 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3085 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3086 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3087 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3090 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3091 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3092 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3093 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3096 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3097 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3099 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3101 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3104 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3105 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3106 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3107 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3108 python-dev2 mailing list).
3111 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3112 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3113 are not associated with a particular screen.
3114 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3115 stdscr to the callback function.
3116 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3117 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3118 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3119 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3120 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3121 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3122 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3126 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3127 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3128 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3129 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3131 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3132 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3133 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3134 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3135 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3138 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3139 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3140 that the 'F' accepts.
3141 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3142 are working concurrently.
3143 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3147 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3148 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3149 _nc_free_and_exit().
3152 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3153 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3156 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3157 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3160 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3161 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3162 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3163 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3166 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3167 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3168 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3169 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3170 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3171 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3173 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3174 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3178 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3179 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3180 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3183 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3184 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3185 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3188 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3189 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3190 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3194 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3195 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3196 "link_test" builds properly.
3197 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3198 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3199 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3200 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3201 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3202 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3203 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3205 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3208 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3212 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3213 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3216 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3218 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3219 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3220 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3223 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3224 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3225 pierre4d2 comments).
3226 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3227 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3228 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3229 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3233 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3234 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3235 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3236 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3237 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3239 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3240 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3241 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3245 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3246 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3249 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3251 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3253 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3257 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3258 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3260 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3261 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3262 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3263 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3264 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3266 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3267 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3270 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3271 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3272 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3273 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3276 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3277 calls within the ncurses library.
3278 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3280 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3281 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3282 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3284 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3285 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3286 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3287 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3288 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3291 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3292 for threaded library (incomplete).
3293 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3294 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3298 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3299 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3300 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3301 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3302 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3303 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3304 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3305 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3306 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3309 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3311 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3312 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3315 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3316 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3317 "\0" followed by a digit.
3318 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3319 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3320 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3321 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3322 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3323 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3324 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3325 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3326 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3329 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3330 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3331 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3332 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3333 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3335 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3336 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3337 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3341 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3342 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3343 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3344 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3345 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3346 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3347 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3348 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3349 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3352 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3353 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3354 + add test/test_getstr.c
3355 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3356 + add test/test_instr.c
3359 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3360 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3361 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3365 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3366 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3367 ".log" to the name and try again.
3368 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3369 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3370 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3371 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3372 --disable-echo option is used.
3373 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3374 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3375 + update config.guess, config.sub
3378 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3379 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3380 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3384 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3385 problems with multi-column characters.
3386 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3387 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3388 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3389 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3390 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3391 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3392 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3395 + add test/demo_panels.c
3396 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3399 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3401 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3402 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3405 + add test/key_name.c
3406 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3407 + update test/configure
3408 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3409 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3410 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3414 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3415 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3416 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3417 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3418 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3419 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3420 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3421 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3422 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3425 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3426 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3427 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3428 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3429 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3430 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3433 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3434 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3436 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3437 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3438 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3439 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3442 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3443 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3444 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3445 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3447 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3449 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3450 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
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