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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 + updated llib-* files.
50 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
51 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
53 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
54 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
55 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
56 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
57 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
58 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
59 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
62 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
63 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
65 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
66 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
67 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
69 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
70 e.g., ncursestw library.
73 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
74 configuration of ncurses6.
75 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
76 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
77 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
78 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
79 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
82 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
83 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
84 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
87 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
89 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
90 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
91 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
92 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
93 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
94 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
95 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
96 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
97 setupterm and restartterm functions.
98 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
99 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
100 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
104 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
105 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
106 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
107 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
108 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
109 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
110 discussion with Sven Joachim).
111 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
114 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
115 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
116 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
117 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
118 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
119 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
120 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
121 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
122 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
123 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
124 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
125 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
126 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
127 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
130 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
131 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
132 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
133 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
134 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
135 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
136 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
137 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
140 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
141 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
142 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
143 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
144 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
146 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
147 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
150 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
151 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
152 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
153 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
155 + regenerate html manpages.
156 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
157 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
158 Stack Overflow forum):
161 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
162 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
163 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
164 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
165 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
169 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
170 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
171 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
172 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
173 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
175 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
176 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
177 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
178 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
179 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
180 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
182 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
183 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
184 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
185 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
186 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
187 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
189 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
190 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
192 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
193 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
195 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
196 the ncurses library aside from headers.
197 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
198 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
199 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
200 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
201 + update config.guess, config.sub from
202 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
205 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
206 (report by Todd M Lewis).
207 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
208 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
209 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
210 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
211 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
212 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
214 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
215 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
216 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
217 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
218 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
219 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
220 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
223 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
224 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
225 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
226 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
227 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
228 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
229 with the shared libraries.
230 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
231 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
232 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
233 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
234 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
235 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
236 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
237 inherit into new windows.
240 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
241 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
242 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
243 readonly text segment.
246 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
247 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
250 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
251 the extended putwin/getwin.
252 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
254 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
258 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
259 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
260 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
261 for a magic code at the beginning:
262 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
265 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
267 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
268 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
271 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
272 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
273 (report by Grady Martin).
276 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
277 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
278 the wide-character libraries.
279 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
281 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
282 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
285 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
286 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
287 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
291 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
292 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
295 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
296 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
297 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
298 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
299 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
302 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
303 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
304 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
307 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
308 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
309 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
311 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
312 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
313 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
314 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
315 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
316 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
317 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
318 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
319 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
320 (report by Pavel Balaev).
323 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
324 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
325 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
326 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
330 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
331 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
335 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
339 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
340 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
341 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
343 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
344 regenerate html-manpages.
347 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
348 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
350 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
351 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
352 package for ncurses6.
353 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
354 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
355 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
356 in the corresponding ".map" files.
357 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
358 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
362 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
363 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
364 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
365 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
367 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
368 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
369 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
370 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
373 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
374 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
375 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
376 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
377 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
380 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
381 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
382 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
383 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
384 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
385 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
386 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
390 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
391 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
395 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
399 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
400 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
401 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
402 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
403 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
405 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
406 (report by Mike Gran).
409 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
410 demonstration of its limitations.
411 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
412 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
413 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
414 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
415 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
416 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
417 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
419 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
420 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
423 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
424 + implement flash in win_driver.c
425 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
427 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
428 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
429 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
430 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
431 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
432 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
433 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
434 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
437 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
438 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
439 some older cross-compiler environments.
440 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
441 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
442 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
443 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
444 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
445 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
446 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
447 + update config.sub from
448 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
451 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
453 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
456 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
458 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
461 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
462 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
463 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
466 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
467 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
471 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
472 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
473 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
476 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
477 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
478 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
479 + regenerated html manpages.
480 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
481 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
482 which reverses cause/effect.
483 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
484 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
485 + fixes for win_driver.c:
486 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
491 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
492 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
493 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
494 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
496 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
497 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
498 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
499 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
503 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
504 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
505 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
506 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
507 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
508 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
509 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
510 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
511 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
514 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
515 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
516 options, from xterm changes.
519 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
520 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
524 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
525 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
528 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
529 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
530 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
531 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
532 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
533 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
534 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
537 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
538 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
539 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
540 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
541 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
542 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
543 providing directly comparable screens.
544 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
547 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
549 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
550 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
551 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
552 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
553 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
554 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
555 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
558 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
559 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
560 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
561 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
562 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
565 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
566 overlap with sgr functionality.
567 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
568 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
569 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
570 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
571 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
572 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
573 older ncurses than 20131207.
574 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
575 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
576 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
577 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
578 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
581 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
582 environment variable.
583 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
584 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
585 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
586 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
587 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
588 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
589 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
590 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
591 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
592 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
593 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
594 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
595 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
596 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
598 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
600 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
601 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
602 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
604 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
605 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
606 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
607 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
608 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
609 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
610 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
612 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
614 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
615 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
616 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
617 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
618 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
619 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
620 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
621 to be consecutive anyway.
622 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
623 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
624 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
625 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
628 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
629 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
630 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
633 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
634 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
635 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
636 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
639 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
641 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
642 simplify later merging:
643 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
644 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
645 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
646 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
647 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
651 + update config.guess, config.sub from
652 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
655 + modify configure script:
656 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
657 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
658 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
659 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
660 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
661 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
662 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
663 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
665 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
666 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
669 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
670 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
671 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
672 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
673 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
674 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
678 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
681 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
682 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
683 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
684 + add terminology entry -TD
685 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
686 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
689 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
690 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
691 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
692 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
693 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
697 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
698 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
699 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
700 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
701 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
704 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
707 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
708 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
709 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
713 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
714 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
715 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
716 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
717 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
718 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
720 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
721 html emitted by docbook.
724 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
725 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
726 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
727 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
730 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
731 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
732 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
733 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
734 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
735 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
738 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
739 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
740 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
741 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
744 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
745 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
748 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
750 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
753 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
754 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
755 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
756 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
758 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
760 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
761 + updated llib-l* files.
764 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
765 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
769 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
773 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
774 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
775 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
776 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
777 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
778 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
779 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
780 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
781 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
782 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
783 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
784 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
786 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
788 + update config.sub from
789 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
792 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
795 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
796 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
797 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
798 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
800 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
803 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
804 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
805 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
806 them more consistent with other packages.
809 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
810 compiling ncurses-examples.
811 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
814 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
817 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
818 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
819 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
820 cross-compiles to MinGW.
821 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
825 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
826 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
830 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
831 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
833 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
835 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
836 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
837 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
838 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
839 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
842 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
843 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
844 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
847 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
849 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
850 before/after Debian #700177.
851 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
852 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
854 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
855 of sort, improving portability.
856 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
857 + update config.guess, config.sub from
858 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
861 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
862 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
864 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
865 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
866 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
869 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
870 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
871 introduced by Debian #700177.
872 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
873 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
876 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
877 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
879 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
880 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
881 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
884 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
885 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
887 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
888 cross-compile support packages.
889 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
892 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
893 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
894 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
895 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
896 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
897 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
898 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
899 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
900 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
901 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
902 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
903 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
906 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
907 initialization of cur_term.
910 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
911 + minor compiler-warning fixes
914 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
915 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
916 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
917 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
918 --enable-auto-import flag.
919 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
923 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
924 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
925 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
926 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
927 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
929 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
930 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
931 (patch by Eric Raymond).
934 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
935 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
936 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
938 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
939 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
940 not printing the full pathname of the program.
941 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
942 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
943 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
946 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
947 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
949 + add test/dots_termcap.c
950 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
951 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
952 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
953 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
954 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
955 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
956 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
957 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
958 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
960 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
961 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
964 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
965 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
966 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
967 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
968 the left margin of the display.
969 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
970 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
971 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
972 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
975 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
976 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
977 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
978 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
979 + regenerated html manpages.
980 + update doctype used for html documentation.
983 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
984 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
985 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
986 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
987 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
988 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
991 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
992 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
993 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
994 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
995 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
998 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
999 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1002 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1003 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1004 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1005 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1006 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1008 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1009 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1010 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1011 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1014 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1015 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1016 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1017 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1019 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1021 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1023 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1026 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1030 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1031 (report by Christian Ebert).
1032 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1033 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1034 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1037 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1038 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1039 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1040 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1041 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1042 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1043 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1044 by Benjamin Sittler)
1045 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1046 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1047 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1048 line split after "%;".
1049 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1050 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1053 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1054 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1055 + regenerated html manpages.
1056 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1057 + updated some autoconf macros:
1058 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1059 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1060 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1061 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1062 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1063 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1064 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1065 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1068 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1069 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1071 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1072 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1074 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1075 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1076 of raw input in MinGW port.
1079 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1080 + update config.guess, config.sub
1083 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1085 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1087 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1088 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1089 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1090 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1091 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1092 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1093 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1095 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1096 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1099 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1100 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1102 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1103 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1104 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1107 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1108 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1109 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1112 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1113 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1114 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1115 help reduce flicker.
1116 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1117 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1118 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1119 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1120 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1121 Dennis Grevenstein).
1122 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1123 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1124 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1127 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1128 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1129 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1130 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1131 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1132 + improve error-checking in copywin
1133 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1134 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1135 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1136 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1137 matching capability names.
1138 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1139 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1140 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1143 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1144 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1145 are unused in the current driver model.
1146 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1148 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1149 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1150 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1151 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1154 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1155 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1157 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1158 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1159 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1160 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1161 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1164 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1165 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1166 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1170 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1172 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1173 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1175 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1176 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1177 wide-character which can be used.
1180 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1181 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1182 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1183 by Erwin Waterlander).
1184 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1185 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1186 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1187 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1188 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1189 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1193 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1194 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1195 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1196 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1197 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1198 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1199 + remove a few redundant checks.
1200 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1202 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1203 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1204 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1205 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1207 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1208 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1209 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1213 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1214 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1215 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1219 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1220 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1221 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1222 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1225 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1226 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1227 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1228 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1229 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1230 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1231 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1232 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1234 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1235 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1236 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1237 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1240 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1241 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1242 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1244 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1245 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1246 libraries or executables.
1249 + realign these related pages:
1254 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1255 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1256 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1257 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1258 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1259 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1260 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1261 based on testing with tack -TD
1262 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1263 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1266 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1268 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1269 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1270 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1273 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1277 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1278 (patch by Christian Persch).
1281 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1283 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1284 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1285 has used that for a while.
1286 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1287 for experimental use.
1288 + remove unused configure macros.
1289 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1290 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1291 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1292 + update config.guess, config.sub
1295 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1296 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1297 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1298 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1299 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1300 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1301 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1304 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1305 to help with MinGW port.
1308 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1310 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1313 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1316 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1317 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1318 might not be allocated.
1319 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1322 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1323 initial screen-sizes.
1324 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1325 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1329 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1330 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1334 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1335 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1336 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1338 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1339 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1342 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1343 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1344 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1345 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1346 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1347 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1348 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1352 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1353 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1354 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1355 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1356 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1357 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1358 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1359 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1363 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1364 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1365 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1366 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1367 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1368 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1371 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1375 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1377 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1379 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1380 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1381 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1382 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1383 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1384 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1387 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1389 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1390 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1391 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1393 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1394 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1397 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1398 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1399 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1402 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1403 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1405 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1406 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1408 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1409 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1412 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1414 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1415 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1416 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1417 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1418 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1419 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1422 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1423 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1424 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1425 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1426 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1427 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1428 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1429 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1430 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1432 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1433 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1434 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1435 Onno van der Linden).
1438 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1440 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1442 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1443 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1446 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1447 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1448 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1449 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1450 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1451 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1452 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1455 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1456 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1457 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1458 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1459 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1460 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1461 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1462 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1463 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1464 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1465 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1466 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1467 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1468 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1469 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1472 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1473 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1474 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1475 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1476 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1477 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1478 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1479 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1480 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1481 are interpreted as key definitions.
1482 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1483 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1487 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1488 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1489 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1490 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1491 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1492 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1493 as building-blocks -TD
1494 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1497 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1498 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1499 title is a status-line. -TD
1500 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1501 of ordering and overrides -TD
1502 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1503 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1504 used in that file -TD
1507 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1508 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1509 definable capabilities.
1510 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1511 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1512 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1513 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1514 embedded in the description.
1515 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1516 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1517 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1518 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1519 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1520 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1523 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1524 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1525 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1526 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1527 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1528 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1529 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1530 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1533 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1534 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1535 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1536 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1537 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1538 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1541 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1542 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1543 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1545 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1546 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1547 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1548 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1551 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1552 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1553 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1556 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1557 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1558 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1560 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1561 calls to setupterm().
1562 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1564 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1565 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1566 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1568 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1572 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1575 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1577 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1578 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1579 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1580 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1581 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1582 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1584 + update config.guess, config.sub
1587 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1588 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1589 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1590 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1591 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1592 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1593 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1594 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1595 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1598 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1599 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1600 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1601 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1602 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1603 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1604 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1605 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1606 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1607 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1608 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1609 Linux versus most other systems.
1612 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1616 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1617 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1618 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1619 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1620 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1621 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1622 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1623 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1624 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1625 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1626 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1627 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1628 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1629 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1632 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1634 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1636 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1637 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1638 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1639 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1642 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1644 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1645 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1646 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1647 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1648 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1650 + regenerated html manpages.
1653 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1654 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1655 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1656 + change recommended regular expression library.
1657 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1658 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1661 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1662 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1663 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1664 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1665 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1666 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1667 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1671 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1672 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1674 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1677 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1679 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1681 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1682 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1683 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1685 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1687 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1690 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1691 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1692 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1693 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1695 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1696 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1697 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1700 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1701 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1703 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1706 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1708 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1710 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1712 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1713 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1714 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1715 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1716 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1717 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1718 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1721 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1722 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1724 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1725 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1726 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1727 database (cf: 20111001).
1730 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1731 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1732 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1734 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1735 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1737 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1738 in older FreeBSD machines.
1739 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1740 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1741 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1744 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1745 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1746 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1747 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1748 root's home directory.
1749 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1750 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1751 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1752 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1753 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1755 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1756 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1757 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1758 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1759 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1760 (report by Peter Kruse).
1763 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1764 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1766 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1768 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1769 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1770 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1773 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1774 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1775 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1776 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1777 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1778 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1781 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1782 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1783 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1784 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1785 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1788 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1789 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1790 input and output of termcap source.
1791 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1792 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1793 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1794 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1795 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1796 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1797 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1798 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1799 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1802 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1805 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1807 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1808 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1809 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1810 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1812 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1815 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1816 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1818 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1819 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1822 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1823 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1825 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1826 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1828 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1829 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1830 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1831 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1833 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1834 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1835 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1836 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1838 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1839 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1842 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1843 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1844 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1845 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1848 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1849 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1850 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1851 + add terminator entry -TD
1852 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1853 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1854 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1858 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1859 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1860 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1861 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1862 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1863 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1864 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1865 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1866 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1867 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1871 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1872 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1873 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1874 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1875 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1876 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1878 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1879 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1880 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1882 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1885 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1886 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1887 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1888 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1890 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1891 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1893 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1894 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1895 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1896 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1897 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1898 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1899 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1900 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1902 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1903 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1905 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1906 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1907 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1908 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1909 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1910 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1911 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1912 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1913 translating to termcap.
1914 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1915 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1918 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1919 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1920 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1921 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1922 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1923 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1925 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1926 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1927 regarding Schilling's test program):
1928 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1929 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1930 + use \040 rather than \s
1931 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1932 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1935 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1936 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1937 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1938 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1939 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1940 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1941 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1942 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1943 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1944 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1945 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1946 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1949 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1950 are not used in the $CC variable.
1951 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1952 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1953 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1954 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1955 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1956 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1959 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1960 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1964 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1965 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1966 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1967 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1968 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1970 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1971 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1973 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1976 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1977 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1980 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1981 + set default prefix to /usr.
1982 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1983 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1984 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1985 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1988 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1989 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1990 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1991 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1993 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1994 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1998 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2001 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2002 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2003 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2005 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2006 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2007 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2008 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2011 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2012 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2013 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2014 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2015 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2016 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2017 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2018 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2019 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2020 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2021 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2024 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2025 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2027 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2028 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2029 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2030 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2033 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2034 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2035 as different types on some Unix systems.
2036 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2037 function pointer passed to tputs().
2038 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2039 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2040 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2041 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2044 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2045 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2046 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2047 + update config.guess, config.sub
2050 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2052 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2053 some ncurses packages.
2054 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2055 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2056 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2058 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2061 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2062 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2063 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2064 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2065 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2066 needed for rpm script.
2067 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2068 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2069 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2072 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2073 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2074 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2075 that sample program.
2076 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2077 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2078 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2079 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2083 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2085 + regen Ada html documentation.
2086 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2087 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2089 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2091 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2092 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2093 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2094 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2095 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2096 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2098 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2099 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2101 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2102 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2105 + regen Ada html documentation.
2106 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2107 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2109 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2110 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2111 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2112 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2113 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2114 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2115 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2116 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2117 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2118 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2119 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2120 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2121 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2122 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2123 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2124 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2125 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2126 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2127 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2130 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2131 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2132 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2134 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2136 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2137 explain.txt is not found.
2140 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2141 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2142 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2143 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2144 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2146 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2149 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2150 + regenerated html manpages.
2151 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2153 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2154 a new install of hashed database.
2155 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2158 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2159 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2160 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2161 wide-character configuration.
2162 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2163 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2166 + regenerated html manpages.
2167 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2168 special case of trace configuration.
2171 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2172 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2173 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2174 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2175 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2179 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2180 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2181 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2182 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2183 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2185 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2186 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2189 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2190 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2191 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2192 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2193 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2194 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2195 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2196 file configuration if that is used.
2197 + update config.guess, config.sub
2200 + regenerated html manpages.
2201 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2203 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2204 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2207 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2208 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2211 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2212 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2213 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2216 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2218 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2219 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2220 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2221 wide-character configuration.
2222 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2223 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2224 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2227 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2228 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2229 version which works with termcap.
2230 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2231 (request by Sven Joachim).
2232 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2233 (report by Sven Joachim).
2236 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2237 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2238 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2241 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2243 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2244 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2247 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2249 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2250 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2251 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2252 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2253 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2254 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2258 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2259 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2260 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2262 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2265 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2267 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2271 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2273 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2274 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2275 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2276 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2277 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2278 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2279 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2280 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2281 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2282 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2283 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2284 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2287 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2288 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2289 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2290 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2291 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2292 external package "cindent".
2295 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2296 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2297 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2298 inconsistent printer-controls.
2299 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2300 form is available -TD
2301 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2303 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2305 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2306 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2307 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2308 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2309 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2311 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2312 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2316 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2317 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2318 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2319 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2320 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2322 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2325 + regenerated html manpages.
2326 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2327 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2328 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2331 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2333 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2334 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2335 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2336 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2340 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2341 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2344 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2345 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2346 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2347 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2348 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2349 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2350 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2354 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2355 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2356 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2357 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2358 by Tim van der Molen).
2359 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2360 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2361 library configuration.
2362 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2363 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2364 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2367 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2369 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2370 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2371 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2372 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2373 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2376 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2377 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2378 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2379 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2380 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2381 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2382 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2383 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2386 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2387 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2388 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2389 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2390 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2391 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2392 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2393 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2396 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2397 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2398 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2399 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2402 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2403 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2404 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2407 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2408 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2409 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2412 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2413 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2414 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2415 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2418 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2419 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2420 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2422 + update Ada95/configure.
2423 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2424 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2425 of updating LIBS variable.
2428 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2429 work with 64-bit compiles.
2430 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2434 + regenerated html documentation.
2435 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2437 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2438 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2439 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2440 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2443 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2444 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2446 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2447 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2448 build- and target-machines differ.
2449 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2450 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2452 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2453 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2456 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2457 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2458 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2459 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2460 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2461 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2462 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2463 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2464 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2465 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2466 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2467 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2468 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2469 found in predefined libraries.
2470 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2473 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2474 (patch by David Benjamin).
2475 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2476 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2477 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2478 may be defined by that route.
2481 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2482 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2483 the predefined include directories.
2484 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2485 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2486 where older versions would produce an error.
2489 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2490 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2491 terminfo to termcap strings
2492 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2493 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2494 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2495 directory was already added.
2496 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2497 directories (which will be ignored).
2500 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2501 + discard motion events
2502 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2503 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2504 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2505 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2508 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2509 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2510 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2511 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2512 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2513 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2514 extended-colors configuration.
2515 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2516 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2517 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2520 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2522 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2523 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2524 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2526 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2527 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2528 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2531 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2532 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2536 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2537 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2538 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2539 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2540 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2541 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2542 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2543 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2544 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2548 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2549 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2550 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2551 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2554 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2556 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2557 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2558 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2561 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2562 making those separately distributable.
2563 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2564 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2568 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2571 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2572 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2573 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2574 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2578 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2579 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2580 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2581 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2584 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2585 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2586 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2587 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2589 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2590 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2591 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2592 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2596 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2597 that line-drawing works.
2598 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2599 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2600 capabilities can run.
2601 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2605 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2606 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2607 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2608 before older in the list.
2609 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2610 + minor documentation cleanup.
2611 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2612 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2613 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2616 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2617 most common case of SGR 0.
2618 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2619 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2620 events remain, it will return ERR.
2623 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2624 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2625 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2626 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2627 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2630 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2631 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2632 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2635 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2636 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2637 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2638 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2639 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2640 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2643 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2644 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2645 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2646 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2647 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2649 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2651 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2653 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2654 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2655 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2657 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2658 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2661 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2662 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2664 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2665 writing terminfo entries.
2666 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2667 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2668 by Nicholas Marriott).
2671 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2673 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2674 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2678 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2679 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2680 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2681 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2682 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2686 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2687 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2688 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2689 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2692 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2693 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2694 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2695 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2696 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2697 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2698 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2701 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2702 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2703 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2704 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2705 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2706 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2707 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2708 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2709 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2710 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2711 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2714 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2715 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2716 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2717 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2720 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2721 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2724 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2725 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2726 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2730 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2731 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2732 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2733 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2734 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2736 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2737 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2740 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2741 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2742 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2743 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2744 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2745 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2747 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2748 library (some work remains for forms library).
2751 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2752 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2753 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2754 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2756 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2757 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2758 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2759 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2762 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2763 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2766 test/test_addchstr.c
2767 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2768 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2769 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2770 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2773 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2775 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2776 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2777 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2778 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2782 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2783 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2784 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2785 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2788 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2789 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2790 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2793 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2796 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2797 broken in 20090510 merging.
2798 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2799 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2800 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2801 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2802 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2803 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2804 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2805 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2807 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2810 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2811 implementation details of hash function.
2814 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2815 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2816 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2819 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2820 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2821 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2822 test/demo_terminfo.c
2823 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2824 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2827 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2828 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2832 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2835 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2837 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2838 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2839 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2840 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2841 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2843 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2844 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2845 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2848 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2849 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2850 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2853 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2854 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2856 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2859 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2860 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2862 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2863 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2867 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2868 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2869 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2872 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2875 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2878 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2879 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2880 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2881 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2884 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2887 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2888 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2889 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2890 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2894 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2897 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2898 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2901 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2904 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2908 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2911 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2912 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2913 part of the form library.
2916 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2917 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2920 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2921 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2922 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2923 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2924 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2925 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2926 a temporary variable.
2927 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2928 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2929 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2930 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2931 with Charles Wilson).
2932 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2933 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2934 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2935 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2936 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2937 digits, after the final '.').
2938 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2939 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2940 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2941 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2942 from 20090321 changes.
2943 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2944 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2945 termlib) is to be linked.
2946 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2947 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2950 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2951 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2952 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2953 (report by Charles Wilson).
2954 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2955 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2956 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2957 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2958 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2961 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2962 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2963 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2964 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2965 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2967 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2968 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2969 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2970 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2971 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2972 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2973 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2974 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2977 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2978 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2979 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2982 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2985 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2987 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2988 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2989 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2990 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2991 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2994 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2995 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2996 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2997 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2998 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2999 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3002 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3003 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3005 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3006 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3007 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3010 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3011 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3012 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3013 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3014 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3015 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3016 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3017 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3018 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3021 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3022 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3024 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3026 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3027 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3030 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3032 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3033 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3034 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3035 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3038 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3039 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3040 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3042 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3043 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3046 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3047 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3048 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3049 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3050 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3051 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3053 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3054 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3056 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3057 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3060 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3061 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3062 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3065 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3066 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3067 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3069 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3070 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3073 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3075 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3076 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3077 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3079 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3080 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3081 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3082 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3083 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3084 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3086 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3087 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3090 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3091 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3092 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3093 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3094 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3095 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3096 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3097 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3098 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3099 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3100 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3103 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3104 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3105 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3106 passing color or video attributes.
3107 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3108 display meta-characters.
3109 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3110 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3111 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3112 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3116 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3117 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3118 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3120 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3123 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3125 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3126 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3128 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3131 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3132 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3133 does not work well on that platform).
3134 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3137 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3138 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3139 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3141 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3142 --disable-database is used.
3143 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3144 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3145 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3146 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3150 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3151 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3152 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3153 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3154 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3155 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3156 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3160 + regenerated html documentation.
3161 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3162 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3163 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3164 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3165 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3166 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3167 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3168 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3171 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3172 works for C/C++ parts).
3173 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3174 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3177 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3178 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3179 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3180 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3181 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3182 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3183 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3184 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3185 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3187 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3188 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3189 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3190 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3191 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3192 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3195 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3196 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3199 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3200 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3201 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3202 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3203 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3204 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3207 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3208 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3211 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3215 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3216 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3217 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3218 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3220 + update test/configure script.
3221 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3222 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3223 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3224 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3225 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3228 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3229 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3231 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3233 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3234 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3235 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3236 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3237 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3238 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3239 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3240 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3241 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3244 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3245 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3246 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3247 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3248 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3249 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3250 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3251 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3252 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3253 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3254 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3258 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3259 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3260 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3261 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3262 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3264 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3265 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3266 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3267 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3268 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3271 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3272 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3273 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3274 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3275 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3276 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3277 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3280 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3284 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3287 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3290 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3291 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3293 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3294 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3295 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3299 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3300 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3302 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3303 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3304 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3305 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3308 + regenerated html documentation.
3309 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3310 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3311 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3312 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3313 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3316 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3317 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3318 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3322 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3323 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3324 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3325 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3326 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3327 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3330 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3331 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3333 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3334 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3335 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3336 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3337 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3338 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3339 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3340 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3341 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3344 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3345 screen which must be updated.
3346 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3347 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3348 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3352 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3353 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3355 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3356 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3357 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3358 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3361 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3362 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3363 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3365 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3369 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3370 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3371 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3374 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3375 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3376 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3377 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3380 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3381 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3383 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3385 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3388 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3389 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3390 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3391 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3392 python-dev2 mailing list).
3395 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3396 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3397 are not associated with a particular screen.
3398 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3399 stdscr to the callback function.
3400 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3401 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3402 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3403 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3404 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3405 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3406 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3410 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3411 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3412 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3413 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3415 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3416 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3417 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3418 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3419 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3422 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3423 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3424 that the 'F' accepts.
3425 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3426 are working concurrently.
3427 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3431 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3432 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3433 _nc_free_and_exit().
3436 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3437 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3440 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3441 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3444 + update test programs to build/work with&nbs
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