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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 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
52 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
53 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
54 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
58 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
59 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
60 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
61 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
62 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
63 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
65 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
66 html emitted by docbook.
69 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
70 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
71 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
72 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
75 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
76 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
77 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
78 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
79 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
80 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
83 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
84 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
85 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
86 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
89 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
90 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
93 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
95 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
98 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
99 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
100 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
101 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
103 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
105 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
106 + updated llib-l* files.
109 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
110 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
114 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
118 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
119 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
120 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
121 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
122 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
123 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
124 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
125 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
126 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
127 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
128 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
129 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
130 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
131 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
133 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
135 + update config.sub from
136 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
139 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
142 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
143 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
144 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
145 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
147 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
150 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
151 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
152 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
153 them more consistent with other packages.
156 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
157 compiling ncurses-examples.
158 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
161 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
164 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
165 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
166 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
167 cross-compiles to MinGW.
168 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
172 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
173 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
177 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
178 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
180 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
182 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
183 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
184 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
185 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
186 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
189 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
190 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
191 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
194 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
196 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
197 before/after Debian #700177.
198 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
199 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
201 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
202 of sort, improving portability.
203 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
204 + update config.guess, config.sub from
205 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
208 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
209 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
211 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
212 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
213 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
216 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
217 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
218 introduced by Debian #700177.
219 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
220 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
223 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
224 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
226 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
227 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
228 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
231 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
232 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
234 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
235 cross-compile support packages.
236 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
239 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
240 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
241 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
242 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
243 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
244 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
245 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
246 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
247 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
248 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
249 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
250 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
253 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
254 initialization of cur_term.
257 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
258 + minor compiler-warning fixes
261 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
262 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
263 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
264 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
265 --enable-auto-import flag.
266 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
270 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
271 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
272 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
273 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
274 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
276 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
277 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
278 (patch by Eric Raymond).
281 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
282 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
283 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
285 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
286 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
287 not printing the full pathname of the program.
288 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
289 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
290 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
293 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
294 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
296 + add test/dots_termcap.c
297 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
298 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
299 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
300 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
301 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
302 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
303 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
304 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
305 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
307 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
308 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
311 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
312 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
313 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
314 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
315 the left margin of the display.
316 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
317 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
318 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
319 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
322 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
323 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
324 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
325 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
326 + regenerated html manpages.
327 + update doctype used for html documentation.
330 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
331 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
332 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
333 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
334 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
335 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
338 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
339 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
340 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
341 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
342 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
345 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
346 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
349 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
350 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
351 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
352 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
353 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
355 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
356 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
357 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
358 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
361 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
362 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
363 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
364 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
366 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
368 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
370 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
373 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
377 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
378 (report by Christian Ebert).
379 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
380 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
381 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
384 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
385 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
386 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
387 add bold for consistency with sgr,
388 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
389 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
390 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
392 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
393 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
394 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
395 line split after "%;".
396 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
397 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
400 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
401 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
402 + regenerated html manpages.
403 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
404 + updated some autoconf macros:
405 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
406 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
407 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
408 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
409 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
410 configuration (Redhat #911540).
411 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
412 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
415 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
416 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
418 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
419 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
421 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
422 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
423 of raw input in MinGW port.
426 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
427 + update config.guess, config.sub
430 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
432 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
434 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
435 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
436 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
437 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
438 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
439 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
440 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
442 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
443 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
446 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
447 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
449 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
450 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
451 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
454 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
455 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
456 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
459 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
460 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
461 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
463 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
464 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
465 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
466 by Dennis Grevenstein).
467 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
469 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
470 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
471 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
474 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
475 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
476 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
477 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
478 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
479 + improve error-checking in copywin
480 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
481 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
482 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
483 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
484 matching capability names.
485 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
486 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
487 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
490 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
491 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
492 are unused in the current driver model.
493 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
495 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
496 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
497 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
498 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
501 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
502 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
504 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
505 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
506 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
507 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
508 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
511 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
512 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
513 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
517 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
519 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
520 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
522 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
523 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
524 wide-character which can be used.
527 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
528 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
529 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
530 by Erwin Waterlander).
531 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
532 > fixes based on Coverity report:
533 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
534 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
535 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
536 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
540 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
541 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
542 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
543 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
544 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
545 > fixes based on Coverity report:
546 + remove a few redundant checks.
547 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
549 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
550 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
551 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
552 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
554 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
555 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
556 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
560 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
561 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
562 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
566 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
567 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
568 > fixes based on Coverity report:
569 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
572 > fixes based on Coverity report:
573 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
574 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
575 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
576 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
577 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
578 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
579 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
581 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
582 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
583 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
584 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
587 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
588 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
589 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
591 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
592 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
593 libraries or executables.
596 + realign these related pages:
601 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
602 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
603 (report by Reuben Thomas).
604 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
605 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
606 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
607 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
608 based on testing with tack -TD
609 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
610 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
613 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
615 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
616 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
617 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
620 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
624 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
625 (patch by Christian Persch).
628 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
630 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
631 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
632 has used that for a while.
633 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
634 for experimental use.
635 + remove unused configure macros.
636 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
637 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
638 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
639 + update config.guess, config.sub
642 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
643 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
644 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
645 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
646 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
647 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
648 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
651 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
652 to help with MinGW port.
655 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
657 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
660 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
663 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
664 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
665 might not be allocated.
666 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
669 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
670 initial screen-sizes.
671 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
672 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
676 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
677 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
681 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
682 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
683 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
685 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
686 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
689 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
690 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
691 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
692 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
693 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
694 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
695 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
699 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
700 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
701 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
702 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
703 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
704 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
705 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
706 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
710 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
711 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
712 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
713 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
714 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
715 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
718 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
722 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
724 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
726 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
727 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
728 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
729 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
730 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
731 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
734 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
736 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
737 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
738 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
740 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
741 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
744 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
745 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
746 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
749 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
750 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
752 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
753 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
755 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
756 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
759 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
761 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
762 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
763 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
764 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
765 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
766 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
769 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
770 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
771 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
772 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
773 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
774 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
775 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
776 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
777 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
779 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
780 analysis by Martin Husemann).
781 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
782 Onno van der Linden).
785 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
787 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
789 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
790 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
793 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
794 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
795 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
796 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
797 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
798 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
799 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
802 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
803 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
804 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
805 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
806 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
807 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
808 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
809 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
810 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
811 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
812 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
813 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
814 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
815 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
816 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
819 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
820 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
821 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
822 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
823 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
824 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
825 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
826 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
827 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
828 are interpreted as key definitions.
829 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
830 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
834 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
835 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
836 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
837 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
838 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
839 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
840 as building-blocks -TD
841 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
844 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
845 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
846 title is a status-line. -TD
847 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
848 of ordering and overrides -TD
849 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
850 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
851 used in that file -TD
854 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
855 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
856 definable capabilities.
857 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
858 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
859 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
860 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
861 embedded in the description.
862 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
863 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
864 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
865 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
866 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
867 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
870 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
871 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
872 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
873 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
875 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
876 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
877 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
880 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
881 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
882 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
883 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
884 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
885 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
888 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
889 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
890 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
892 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
893 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
894 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
895 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
898 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
899 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
900 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
903 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
904 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
905 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
907 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
908 calls to setupterm().
909 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
911 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
912 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
913 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
915 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
919 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
922 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
924 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
925 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
926 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
927 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
928 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
929 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
931 + update config.guess, config.sub
934 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
935 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
936 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
937 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
938 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
939 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
940 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
941 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
942 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
945 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
946 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
947 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
948 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
949 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
950 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
951 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
952 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
953 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
954 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
955 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
956 Linux versus most other systems.
959 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
963 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
964 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
965 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
966 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
967 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
968 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
969 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
970 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
971 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
972 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
973 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
974 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
975 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
976 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
979 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
981 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
983 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
984 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
985 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
986 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
989 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
991 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
992 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
993 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
994 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
995 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
997 + regenerated html manpages.
1000 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1001 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1002 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1003 + change recommended regular expression library.
1004 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1005 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1008 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1009 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1010 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1011 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1012 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1013 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1014 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1018 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1019 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1021 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1024 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1026 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1028 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1029 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1030 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1032 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1034 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1037 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1038 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1039 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1040 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1042 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1043 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1044 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1047 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1048 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1050 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1053 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1055 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1057 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1059 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1060 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1061 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1062 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1063 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1064 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1065 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1068 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1069 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1071 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1072 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1073 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1074 database (cf: 20111001).
1077 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1078 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1079 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1081 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1082 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1084 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1085 in older FreeBSD machines.
1086 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1087 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1088 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1091 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1092 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1093 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1094 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1095 root's home directory.
1096 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1097 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1098 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1099 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1100 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1102 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1103 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1104 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1105 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1106 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1107 (report by Peter Kruse).
1110 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1111 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1113 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1115 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1116 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1117 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1120 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1121 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1122 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1123 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1124 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1125 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1128 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1129 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1130 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1131 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1132 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1135 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1136 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1137 input and output of termcap source.
1138 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1139 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1140 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1141 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1142 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1143 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1144 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1145 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1146 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1149 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1152 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1154 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1155 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1156 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1157 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1159 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1162 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1163 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1165 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1166 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1169 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1170 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1172 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1173 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1175 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1176 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1177 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1178 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1180 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1181 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1182 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1183 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1185 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1186 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1189 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1190 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1191 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1192 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1195 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1196 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1197 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1198 + add terminator entry -TD
1199 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1200 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1201 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1205 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1206 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1207 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1208 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1209 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1210 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1211 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1212 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1213 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1214 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1218 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1219 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1220 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1221 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1222 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1223 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1225 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1226 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1227 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1229 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1232 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1233 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1234 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1235 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1237 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1238 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1240 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1241 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1242 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1243 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1244 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1245 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1246 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1247 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1249 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1250 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1252 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1253 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1254 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1255 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1256 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1257 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1258 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1259 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1260 translating to termcap.
1261 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1262 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1265 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1266 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1267 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1268 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1269 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1270 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1272 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1273 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1274 regarding Schilling's test program):
1275 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1276 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1277 + use \040 rather than \s
1278 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1279 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1282 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1283 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1284 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1285 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1286 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1287 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1288 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1289 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1290 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1291 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1292 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1293 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1296 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1297 are not used in the $CC variable.
1298 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1299 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1300 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1301 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1302 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1303 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1306 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1307 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1311 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1312 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1313 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1314 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1315 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1317 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1318 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1320 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1323 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1324 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1327 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1328 + set default prefix to /usr.
1329 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1330 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1331 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1332 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1335 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1336 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1337 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1338 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1340 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1341 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1345 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1348 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1349 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1350 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1352 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1353 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1354 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1355 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1358 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1359 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1360 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1361 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1362 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1363 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1364 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1365 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1366 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1367 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1368 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1371 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1372 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1374 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1375 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1376 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1377 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1380 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1381 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1382 as different types on some Unix systems.
1383 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1384 function pointer passed to tputs().
1385 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1386 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1387 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1388 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1391 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1392 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1393 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1394 + update config.guess, config.sub
1397 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1399 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1400 some ncurses packages.
1401 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1402 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1403 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1405 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1408 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1409 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1410 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1411 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1412 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1413 needed for rpm script.
1414 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1415 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1416 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1419 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1420 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1421 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1422 that sample program.
1423 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1424 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1425 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1426 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1430 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1432 + regen Ada html documentation.
1433 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1434 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1436 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1438 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1439 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1440 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1441 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1442 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1443 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1445 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1446 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1448 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1449 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1452 + regen Ada html documentation.
1453 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1454 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1456 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1457 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1458 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1459 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1460 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1461 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1462 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1463 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1464 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1465 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1466 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1467 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1468 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1469 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1470 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1471 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1472 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1473 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1474 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1477 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1478 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1479 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1481 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1483 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1484 explain.txt is not found.
1487 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1488 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1489 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1490 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1491 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1493 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1496 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1497 + regenerated html manpages.
1498 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1500 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1501 a new install of hashed database.
1502 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1505 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1506 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1507 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1508 wide-character configuration.
1509 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1510 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1513 + regenerated html manpages.
1514 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1515 special case of trace configuration.
1518 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1519 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1520 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1521 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1522 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1526 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1527 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1528 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1529 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1530 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1532 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1533 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1536 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1537 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1538 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1539 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1540 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1541 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1542 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1543 file configuration if that is used.
1544 + update config.guess, config.sub
1547 + regenerated html manpages.
1548 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1550 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1551 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1554 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1555 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1558 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1559 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1560 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1563 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1565 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1566 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1567 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1568 wide-character configuration.
1569 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1570 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1571 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1574 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1575 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1576 version which works with termcap.
1577 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1578 (request by Sven Joachim).
1579 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1580 (report by Sven Joachim).
1583 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1584 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1585 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1588 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1590 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1591 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1594 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1596 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1597 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1598 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1599 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1600 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1601 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1605 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1606 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1607 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1609 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1612 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1614 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1618 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1620 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1621 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1622 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1623 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1624 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1625 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1626 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1627 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1628 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1629 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1630 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1631 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1634 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1635 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1636 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1637 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1638 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1639 external package "cindent".
1642 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1643 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1644 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1645 inconsistent printer-controls.
1646 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1647 form is available -TD
1648 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1650 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1652 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1653 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1654 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1655 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1656 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1658 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1659 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1663 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1664 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1665 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1666 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1667 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1669 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1672 + regenerated html manpages.
1673 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1674 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1675 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1678 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1680 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1681 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1682 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1683 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1687 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1688 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1691 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1692 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1693 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1694 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1695 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1696 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1697 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1701 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1702 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1703 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1704 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1705 by Tim van der Molen).
1706 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1707 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1708 library configuration.
1709 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1710 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1711 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1714 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1716 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1717 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1718 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1719 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1720 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1723 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1724 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1725 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1726 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1727 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1728 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1729 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1730 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1733 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1734 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1735 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1736 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1737 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1738 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1739 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1740 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1743 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1744 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1745 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1746 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1749 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1750 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1751 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1754 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1755 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1756 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1759 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1760 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1761 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1762 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1765 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1766 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1767 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1769 + update Ada95/configure.
1770 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1771 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1772 of updating LIBS variable.
1775 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1776 work with 64-bit compiles.
1777 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1781 + regenerated html documentation.
1782 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1784 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1785 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1786 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1787 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1790 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1791 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1793 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1794 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1795 build- and target-machines differ.
1796 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1797 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1799 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1800 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1803 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1804 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1805 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1806 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1807 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1808 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1809 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1810 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1811 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1812 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1813 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1814 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1815 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1816 found in predefined libraries.
1817 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1820 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1821 (patch by David Benjamin).
1822 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1823 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1824 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1825 may be defined by that route.
1828 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1829 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1830 the predefined include directories.
1831 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1832 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1833 where older versions would produce an error.
1836 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1837 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1838 terminfo to termcap strings
1839 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1840 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1841 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1842 directory was already added.
1843 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1844 directories (which will be ignored).
1847 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1848 + discard motion events
1849 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1850 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1851 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1852 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1855 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1856 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1857 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1858 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1859 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1860 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1861 extended-colors configuration.
1862 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1863 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1864 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1867 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1869 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1870 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1871 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1873 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1874 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1875 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1878 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1879 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1883 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1884 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1885 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1886 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1887 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1888 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1889 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1890 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1891 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1895 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1896 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1897 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1898 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1901 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1903 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1904 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1905 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1908 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1909 making those separately distributable.
1910 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1911 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1915 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1918 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1919 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1920 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1921 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1925 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1926 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1927 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1928 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1931 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1932 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1933 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1934 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1936 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1937 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1938 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1939 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1943 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1944 that line-drawing works.
1945 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1946 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1947 capabilities can run.
1948 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1952 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1953 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1954 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1955 before older in the list.
1956 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1957 + minor documentation cleanup.
1958 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1959 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1960 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1963 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1964 most common case of SGR 0.
1965 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1966 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1967 events remain, it will return ERR.
1970 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1971 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1972 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1973 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1974 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1977 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1978 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1979 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1982 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1983 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1984 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1985 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1986 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1987 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1990 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1991 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1992 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1993 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1994 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1996 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1998 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2000 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2001 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2002 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2004 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2005 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2008 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2009 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2011 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2012 writing terminfo entries.
2013 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2014 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2015 by Nicholas Marriott).
2018 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2020 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2021 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2025 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2026 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2027 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2028 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2029 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2033 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2034 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2035 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2036 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2039 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2040 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2041 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2042 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2043 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2044 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2045 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2048 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2049 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2050 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2051 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2052 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2053 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2054 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2055 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2056 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2057 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2058 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2061 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2062 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2063 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2064 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
2067 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2068 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2071 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2072 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2073 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2077 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2078 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2079 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2080 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2081 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2083 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2084 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2087 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2088 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2089 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2090 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2091 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2092 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2094 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2095 library (some work remains for forms library).
2098 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2099 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2100 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2101 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2103 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2104 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2105 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2106 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2109 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2110 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2113 test/test_addchstr.c
2114 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2115 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2116 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2117 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2120 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2122 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2123 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2124 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2125 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2129 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2130 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2131 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2132 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2135 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2136 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2137 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2140 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2143 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2144 broken in 20090509 merging.
2145 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2146 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2147 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2148 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2149 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2150 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2151 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2152 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2154 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2157 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2158 implementation details of hash function.
2161 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2162 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2163 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2166 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2167 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2168 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2169 test/demo_terminfo.c
2170 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2171 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2174 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2175 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2179 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2182 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2184 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2185 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2186 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2187 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2188 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2190 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2191 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2192 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2195 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2196 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2197 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2200 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2201 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2203 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2206 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2207 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2209 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2210 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2214 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2215 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2216 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2219 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2222 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2225 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2226 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2227 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2228 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2231 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2234 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2235 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2236 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2237 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2241 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2244 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2245 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2248 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2251 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2255 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2258 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2259 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2260 part of the form library.
2263 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2264 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2267 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2268 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2269 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2270 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2271 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2272 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2273 a temporary variable.
2274 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2275 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2276 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2277 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2278 with Charles Wilson).
2279 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2280 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2281 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2282 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2283 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2284 digits, after the final '.').
2285 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2286 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2287 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2288 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2289 from 2009031 changes.
2290 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2291 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2292 termlib) is to be linked.
2293 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2294 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2297 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2298 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2299 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2300 (report by Charles Wilson).
2301 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2302 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2303 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2304 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2305 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2308 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2309 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2310 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2311 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2312 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2314 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2315 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2316 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2317 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2318 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2319 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2320 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2321 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2324 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2325 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2326 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2329 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2332 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2334 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2335 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2336 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2337 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2338 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2341 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2342 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2343 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2344 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2345 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2346 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2349 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2350 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2352 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2353 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2354 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2357 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2358 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2359 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2360 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2361 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2362 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2363 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2364 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2365 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2368 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2369 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2371 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2373 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2374 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2377 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2379 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2380 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2381 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2382 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2385 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2386 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2387 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2389 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2390 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2393 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2394 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2395 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2396 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2397 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2398 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2400 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2401 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2403 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2404 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2407 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2408 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2409 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2412 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2413 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2414 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2416 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2417 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2420 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2422 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2423 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2424 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2426 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2427 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2428 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2429 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2430 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2431 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2433 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2434 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2437 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2438 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2439 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2440 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2441 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2442 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2443 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2444 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2445 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2446 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2447 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2450 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2451 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2452 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2453 passing color or video attributes.
2454 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2455 display meta-characters.
2456 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2457 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2458 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2459 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2463 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2464 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2465 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2467 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2470 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2472 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2473 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2475 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2478 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2479 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2480 does not work well on that platform).
2481 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2484 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2485 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2486 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2488 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2489 --disable-database is used.
2490 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2491 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2492 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2493 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2497 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2498 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2499 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2500 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2501 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2502 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2503 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2507 + regenerated html documentation.
2508 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2509 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2510 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2511 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2512 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2513 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2514 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2515 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2518 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2519 works for C/C++ parts).
2520 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2521 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2524 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2525 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2526 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2527 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2528 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2529 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2530 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2531 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2532 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2534 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2535 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2536 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2537 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2538 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2539 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2542 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2543 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2546 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2547 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2548 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2549 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2550 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2551 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2554 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2555 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2558 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2562 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2563 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2564 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2565 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2567 + update test/configure script.
2568 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2569 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2570 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2571 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2572 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2575 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2576 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2578 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2580 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2581 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2582 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2583 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2584 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2585 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2586 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2587 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2588 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2591 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2592 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2593 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2594 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2595 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2596 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2597 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2598 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2599 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2600 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2601 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2605 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2606 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2607 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2608 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2609 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2611 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2612 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2613 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2614 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2615 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2618 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2619 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2620 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2621 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2622 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2623 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2624 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2627 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2631 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2634 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2637 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2638 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2640 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2641 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2642 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2646 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2647 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2649 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2650 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2651 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2652 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2655 + regenerated html documentation.
2656 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2657 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2658 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2659 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2660 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2663 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2664 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2665 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2669 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2670 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2671 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2672 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2673 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2674 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2677 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2678 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2680 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2681 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2682 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2683 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2684 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2685 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2686 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2687 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2688 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2691 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2692 screen which must be updated.
2693 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2694 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2695 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2699 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2700 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2702 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2703 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2704 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2705 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2708 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2709 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2710 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2712 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2716 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2717 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2718 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2721 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2722 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2723 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2724 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2727 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2728 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2730 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2732 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2735 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2736 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2737 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2738 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2739 python-dev2 mailing list).
2742 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2743 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2744 are not associated with a particular screen.
2745 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2746 stdscr to the callback function.
2747 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2748 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2749 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2750 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2751 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2752 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2753 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2757 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2758 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2759 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2760 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2762 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2763 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2764 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2765 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2766 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2769 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2770 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2771 that the 'F' accepts.
2772 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2773 are working concurrently.
2774 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2778 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2779 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2780 _nc_free_and_exit().
2783 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2784 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2787 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2788 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2791 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2792 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2793 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2794 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2797 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2798 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2799 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2800 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2801 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2802 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2804 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2805 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2809 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2810 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2811 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2814 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2815 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2816 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2819 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2820 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2821 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2825 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2826 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2827 "link_test" builds properly.
2828 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2829 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2830 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2831 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2832 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2833 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2834 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2836 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2839 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2843 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2844 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2847 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2849 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2850 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2851 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2854 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2855 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2856 pierre4d2 comments).
2857 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2858 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2859 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2860 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2864 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2865 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2866 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2867 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2868 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2870 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2871 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2872 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2876 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2877 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2880 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2882 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2884 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2888 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2889 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2891 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2892 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2893 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2894 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2895 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2897 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2898 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2901 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2902 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2903 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2904 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2907 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2908 calls within the ncurses library.
2909 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2911 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2912 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2913 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2915 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2916 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2917 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2918 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2919 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2922 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2923 for threaded library (incomplete).
2924 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2925 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2929 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2930 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2931 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2932 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2933 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2934 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2935 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2936 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2937 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2940 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2942 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2943 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2946 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2947 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2948 "\0" followed by a digit.
2949 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2950 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2951 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2952 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2953 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2954 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2955 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2956 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2957 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2960 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2961 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2962 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2963 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2964 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2966 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2967 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2968 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2972 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2973 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2974 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2975 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2976 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2977 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2978 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2979 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2980 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2983 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2984 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2985 + add test/test_getstr.c
2986 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2987 + add test/test_instr.c
2990 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2991 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2992 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2996 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2997 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2998 ".log" to the name and try again.
2999 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3000 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3001 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3002 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3003 --disable-echo option is used.
3004 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3005 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3006 + update config.guess, config.sub
3009 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3010 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3011 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3015 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3016 problems with multi-column characters.
3017 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3018 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3019 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3020 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3021 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3022 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3023 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3026 + add test/demo_panels.c
3027 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3030 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3032 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3033 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3036 + add test/key_name.c
3037 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3038 + update test/configure
3039 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3040 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3041 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3045 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3046 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3047 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3048 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3049 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3050 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3051 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3052 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3053 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3056 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3057 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3058 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3059 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3060 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3061 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3064 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3065 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3067 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3068 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3069 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3070 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3073 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3074 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3075 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3076 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3078 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3080 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3081 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3082 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3083 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3084 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3087 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3088 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3090 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3091 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3092 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3093 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3094 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3095 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3096 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3097 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3098 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3099 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3100 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3103 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3104 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3105 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3106 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3107 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3108 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3109 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3112 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3113 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3114 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3115 Ada95 tree is not built.
3118 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3119 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3120 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3121 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3122 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3123 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3125 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3126 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3127 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3128 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3129 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3130 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3131 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3132 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3133 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3134 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3135 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3136 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3137 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3138 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3139 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3140 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3141 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3142 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3143 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3145 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3146 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3147 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3148 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3149 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3150 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3151 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3152 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3153 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3156 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3157 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3158 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3159 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3160 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3161 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3162 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3163 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3167 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3168 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3169 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3170 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3171 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3175 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3176 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3177 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3178 in the configure script to an error.
3179 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3180 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3181 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3182 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3183 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3185 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3186 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3189 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3190 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3193 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3194 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3196 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3197 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3198 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3199 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3200 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3201 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3202 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3203 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3206 + regenerated html documentation.
3207 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3208 opaque in selected configurations.
3209 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3210 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3211 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3212 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3213 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3214 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3215 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3216 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3217 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3218 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3219 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3221 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3222 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3225 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3226 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3227 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3228 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3229 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3230 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3231 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3232 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3233 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3234 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3235 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3236 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3239 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3241 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3242 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3243 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3245 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3246 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3247 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3248 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3249 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3250 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3251 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3252 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3254 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3255 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3258 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3259 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3261 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3263 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3264 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3265 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3268 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3269 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3270 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3271 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3273 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3274 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3275 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3276 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3277 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3278 no longer relies on it.
3279 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3280 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3281 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3284 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3285 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3288 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3289 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3290 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3291 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3292 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3293 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3294 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3295 its license consistent with ncurses.
3296 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3297 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3298 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3301 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3302 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3303 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3304 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3308 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3309 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3310 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3312 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3313 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3316 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3317 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3318 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3321 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3322 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3323 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3324 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3325 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3326 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3327 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3328 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3329 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3330 to manpages as needed.
3331 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3332 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3335 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3336 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3337 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3338 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3339 + update config.guess, config.sub
3341 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3344 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3345 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3346 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3347 correct nor portable.
3348 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3350 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3351 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3355 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3356 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3357 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3358 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3359 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3360 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3363 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3364 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3365 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3366 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3368 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3369 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3370 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3371 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3372 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3373 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3374 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3375 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3378 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3379 database configuration.
3380 + updates for test/configure script.
3381 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3382 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3384 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3385 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3386 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3387 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3389 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3390 _nc_printf_string().
3391 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3392 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3395 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3396 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3398 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3399 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3403 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3404 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3407 + add test/echochar.c
3408 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3409 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3412 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3413 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3414 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3415 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3418 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3419 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3420 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3422 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3423 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3424 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3425 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3426 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3427 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3428 Ralf S Engelschall).
3429 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3430 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3431 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3432 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3435 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3436 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3437 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3440 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3441 and status line (Alain Bench).
3442 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3443 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3444 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3445 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3448 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1