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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 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
50 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
51 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
52 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
54 + regenerate html manpages.
55 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
56 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
57 Stack Overflow forum):
60 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
61 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
62 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
63 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
64 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
68 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
69 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
70 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
71 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
72 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
74 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
75 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
76 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
77 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
78 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
79 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
81 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
82 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
83 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
84 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
85 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
86 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
88 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
89 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
91 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
92 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
94 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
95 the ncurses library aside from headers.
96 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
97 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
98 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
99 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
100 + update config.guess, config.sub from
101 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
104 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
105 (report by Todd M Lewis).
106 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
107 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
108 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
109 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
110 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
111 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
113 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
114 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
115 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
116 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
117 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
118 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
119 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
122 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
123 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
124 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
125 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
126 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
127 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
128 with the shared libraries.
129 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
130 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
131 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
132 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
133 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
134 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
135 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
136 inherit into new windows.
139 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
140 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
141 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
142 readonly text segment.
145 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
146 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
149 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
150 the extended putwin/getwin.
151 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
153 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
157 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
158 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
159 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
160 for a magic code at the beginning:
161 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
164 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
166 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
167 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
170 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
171 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
172 (report by Grady Martin).
175 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
176 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
177 the wide-character libraries.
178 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
180 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
181 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
184 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
185 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
186 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
190 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
191 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
194 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
195 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
196 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
197 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
198 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
201 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
202 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
203 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
206 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
207 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
208 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
210 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
211 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
212 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
213 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
214 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
215 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
216 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
217 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
218 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
219 (report by Pavel Balaev).
222 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
223 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
224 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
225 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
229 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
230 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
234 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
238 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
239 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
240 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
242 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
243 regenerate html-manpages.
246 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
247 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
249 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
250 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
251 package for ncurses6.
252 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
253 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
254 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
255 in the corresponding ".map" files.
256 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
257 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
261 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
262 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
263 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
264 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
266 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
267 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
268 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
269 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
272 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
273 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
274 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
275 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
276 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
279 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
280 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
281 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
282 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
283 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
284 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
285 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
289 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
290 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
294 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
298 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
299 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
300 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
301 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
302 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
304 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
305 (report by Mike Gran).
308 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
309 demonstration of its limitations.
310 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
311 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
312 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
313 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
314 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
315 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
316 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
318 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
319 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
322 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
323 + implement flash in win_driver.c
324 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
326 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
327 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
328 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
329 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
330 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
331 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
332 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
333 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
336 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
337 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
338 some older cross-compiler environments.
339 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
340 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
341 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
342 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
343 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
344 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
345 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
346 + update config.sub from
347 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
350 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
352 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
355 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
357 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
360 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
361 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
362 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
365 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
366 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
370 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
371 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
372 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
375 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
376 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
377 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
378 + regenerated html manpages.
379 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
380 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
381 which reverses cause/effect.
382 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
383 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
384 + fixes for win_driver.c:
385 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
390 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
391 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
392 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
393 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
395 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
396 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
397 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
398 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
402 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
403 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
404 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
405 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
406 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
407 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
408 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
409 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
410 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
413 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
414 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
415 options, from xterm changes.
418 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
419 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
423 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
424 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
427 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
428 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
429 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
430 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
431 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
432 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
433 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
436 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
437 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
438 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
439 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
440 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
441 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
442 providing directly comparable screens.
443 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
446 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
448 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
449 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
450 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
451 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
452 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
453 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
454 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
457 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
458 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
459 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
460 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
461 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
464 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
465 overlap with sgr functionality.
466 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
467 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
468 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
469 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
470 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
471 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
472 older ncurses than 20131207.
473 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
474 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
475 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
476 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
477 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
480 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
481 environment variable.
482 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
483 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
484 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
485 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
486 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
487 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
488 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
489 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
490 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
491 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
492 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
493 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
494 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
495 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
497 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
499 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
500 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
501 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
503 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
504 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
505 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
506 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
507 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
508 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
509 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
511 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
513 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
514 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
515 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
516 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
517 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
518 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
519 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
520 to be consecutive anyway.
521 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
522 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
523 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
524 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
527 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
528 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
529 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
532 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
533 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
534 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
535 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
538 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
540 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
541 simplify later merging:
542 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
543 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
544 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
545 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
546 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
550 + update config.guess, config.sub from
551 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
554 + modify configure script:
555 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
556 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
557 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
558 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
559 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
560 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
561 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
562 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
564 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
565 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
568 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
569 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
570 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
571 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
572 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
573 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
577 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
580 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
581 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
582 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
583 + add terminology entry -TD
584 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
585 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
588 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
589 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
590 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
591 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
592 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
596 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
597 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
598 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
599 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
600 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
603 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
606 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
607 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
608 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
612 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
613 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
614 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
615 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
616 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
617 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
619 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
620 html emitted by docbook.
623 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
624 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
625 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
626 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
629 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
630 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
631 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
632 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
633 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
634 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
637 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
638 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
639 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
640 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
643 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
644 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
647 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
649 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
652 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
653 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
654 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
655 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
657 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
659 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
660 + updated llib-l* files.
663 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
664 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
668 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
672 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
673 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
674 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
675 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
676 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
677 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
678 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
679 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
680 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
681 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
682 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
683 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
684 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
685 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
687 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
689 + update config.sub from
690 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
693 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
696 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
697 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
698 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
699 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
701 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
704 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
705 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
706 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
707 them more consistent with other packages.
710 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
711 compiling ncurses-examples.
712 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
715 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
718 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
719 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
720 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
721 cross-compiles to MinGW.
722 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
726 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
727 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
731 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
732 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
734 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
736 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
737 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
738 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
739 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
740 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
743 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
744 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
745 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
748 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
750 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
751 before/after Debian #700177.
752 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
753 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
755 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
756 of sort, improving portability.
757 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
758 + update config.guess, config.sub from
759 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
762 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
763 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
765 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
766 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
767 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
770 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
771 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
772 introduced by Debian #700177.
773 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
774 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
777 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
778 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
780 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
781 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
782 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
785 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
786 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
788 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
789 cross-compile support packages.
790 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
793 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
794 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
795 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
796 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
797 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
798 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
799 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
800 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
801 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
802 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
803 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
804 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
807 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
808 initialization of cur_term.
811 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
812 + minor compiler-warning fixes
815 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
816 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
817 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
818 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
819 --enable-auto-import flag.
820 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
824 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
825 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
826 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
827 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
828 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
830 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
831 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
832 (patch by Eric Raymond).
835 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
836 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
837 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
839 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
840 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
841 not printing the full pathname of the program.
842 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
843 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
844 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
847 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
848 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
850 + add test/dots_termcap.c
851 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
852 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
853 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
854 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
855 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
856 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
857 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
858 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
859 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
861 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
862 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
865 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
866 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
867 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
868 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
869 the left margin of the display.
870 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
871 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
872 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
873 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
876 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
877 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
878 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
879 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
880 + regenerated html manpages.
881 + update doctype used for html documentation.
884 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
885 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
886 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
887 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
888 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
889 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
892 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
893 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
894 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
895 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
896 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
899 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
900 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
903 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
904 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
905 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
906 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
907 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
909 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
910 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
911 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
912 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
915 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
916 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
917 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
918 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
920 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
922 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
924 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
927 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
931 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
932 (report by Christian Ebert).
933 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
934 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
935 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
938 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
939 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
940 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
941 add bold for consistency with sgr,
942 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
943 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
944 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
946 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
947 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
948 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
949 line split after "%;".
950 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
951 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
954 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
955 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
956 + regenerated html manpages.
957 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
958 + updated some autoconf macros:
959 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
960 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
961 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
962 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
963 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
964 configuration (Redhat #911540).
965 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
966 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
969 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
970 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
972 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
973 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
975 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
976 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
977 of raw input in MinGW port.
980 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
981 + update config.guess, config.sub
984 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
986 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
988 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
989 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
990 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
991 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
992 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
993 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
994 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
996 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
997 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1000 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1001 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1003 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1004 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1005 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1008 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1009 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1010 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1013 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1014 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1015 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1016 help reduce flicker.
1017 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1018 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1019 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1020 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1021 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1022 Dennis Grevenstein).
1023 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1024 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1025 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1028 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1029 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1030 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1031 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1032 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1033 + improve error-checking in copywin
1034 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1035 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1036 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1037 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1038 matching capability names.
1039 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1040 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1041 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1044 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1045 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1046 are unused in the current driver model.
1047 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1049 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1050 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1051 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1052 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1055 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1056 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1058 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1059 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1060 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1061 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1062 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1065 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1066 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1067 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1071 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1073 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1074 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1076 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1077 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1078 wide-character which can be used.
1081 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1082 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1083 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1084 by Erwin Waterlander).
1085 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1086 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1087 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1088 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1089 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1090 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1094 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1095 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1096 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1097 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1098 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1099 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1100 + remove a few redundant checks.
1101 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1103 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1104 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1105 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1106 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1108 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1109 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1110 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1114 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1115 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1116 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1120 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1121 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1122 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1123 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1126 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1127 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1128 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1129 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1130 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1131 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1132 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1133 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1135 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1136 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1137 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1138 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1141 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1142 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1143 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1145 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1146 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1147 libraries or executables.
1150 + realign these related pages:
1155 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1156 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1157 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1158 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1159 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1160 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1161 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1162 based on testing with tack -TD
1163 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1164 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1167 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1169 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1170 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1171 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1174 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1178 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1179 (patch by Christian Persch).
1182 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1184 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1185 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1186 has used that for a while.
1187 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1188 for experimental use.
1189 + remove unused configure macros.
1190 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1191 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1192 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1193 + update config.guess, config.sub
1196 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1197 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1198 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1199 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1200 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1201 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1202 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1205 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1206 to help with MinGW port.
1209 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1211 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1214 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1217 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1218 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1219 might not be allocated.
1220 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1223 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1224 initial screen-sizes.
1225 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1226 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1230 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1231 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1235 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1236 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1237 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1239 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1240 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1243 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1244 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1245 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1246 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1247 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1248 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1249 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1253 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1254 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1255 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1256 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1257 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1258 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1259 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1260 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1264 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1265 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1266 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1267 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1268 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1269 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1272 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1276 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1278 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1280 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1281 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1282 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1283 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1284 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1285 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1288 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1290 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1291 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1292 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1294 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1295 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1298 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1299 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1300 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1303 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1304 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1306 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1307 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1309 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1310 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1313 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1315 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1316 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1317 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1318 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1319 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1320 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1323 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1324 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1325 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1326 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1327 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1328 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1329 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1330 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1331 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1333 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1334 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1335 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1336 Onno van der Linden).
1339 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1341 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1343 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1344 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1347 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1348 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1349 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1350 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1351 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1352 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1353 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1356 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1357 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1358 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1359 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1360 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1361 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1362 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1363 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1364 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1365 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1366 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1367 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1368 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1369 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1370 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1373 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1374 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1375 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1376 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1377 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1378 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1379 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1380 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1381 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1382 are interpreted as key definitions.
1383 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1384 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1388 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1389 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1390 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1391 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1392 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1393 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1394 as building-blocks -TD
1395 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1398 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1399 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1400 title is a status-line. -TD
1401 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1402 of ordering and overrides -TD
1403 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1404 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1405 used in that file -TD
1408 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1409 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1410 definable capabilities.
1411 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1412 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1413 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1414 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1415 embedded in the description.
1416 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1417 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1418 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1419 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1420 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1421 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1424 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1425 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1426 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1427 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1428 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1429 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1430 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1431 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1434 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1435 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1436 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1437 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1438 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1439 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1442 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1443 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1444 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1446 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1447 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1448 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1449 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1452 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1453 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1454 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1457 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1458 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1459 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1461 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1462 calls to setupterm().
1463 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1465 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1466 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1467 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1469 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1473 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1476 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1478 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1479 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1480 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1481 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1482 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1483 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1485 + update config.guess, config.sub
1488 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1489 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1490 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1491 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1492 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1493 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1494 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1495 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1496 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1499 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1500 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1501 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1502 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1503 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1504 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1505 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1506 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1507 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1508 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1509 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1510 Linux versus most other systems.
1513 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1517 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1518 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1519 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1520 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1521 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1522 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1523 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1524 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1525 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1526 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1527 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1528 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1529 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1530 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1533 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1535 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1537 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1538 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1539 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1540 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1543 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1545 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1546 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1547 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1548 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1549 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1551 + regenerated html manpages.
1554 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1555 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1556 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1557 + change recommended regular expression library.
1558 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1559 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1562 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1563 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1564 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1565 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1566 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1567 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1568 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1572 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1573 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1575 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1578 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1580 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1582 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1583 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1584 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1586 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1588 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1591 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1592 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1593 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1594 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1596 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1597 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1598 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1601 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1602 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1604 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1607 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1609 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1611 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1613 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1614 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1615 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1616 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1617 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1618 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1619 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1622 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1623 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1625 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1626 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1627 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1628 database (cf: 20111001).
1631 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1632 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1633 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1635 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1636 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1638 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1639 in older FreeBSD machines.
1640 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1641 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1642 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1645 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1646 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1647 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1648 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1649 root's home directory.
1650 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1651 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1652 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1653 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1654 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1656 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1657 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1658 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1659 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1660 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1661 (report by Peter Kruse).
1664 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1665 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1667 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1669 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1670 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1671 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1674 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1675 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1676 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1677 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1678 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1679 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1682 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1683 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1684 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1685 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1686 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1689 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1690 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1691 input and output of termcap source.
1692 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1693 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1694 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1695 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1696 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1697 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1698 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1699 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1700 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1703 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1706 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1708 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1709 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1710 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1711 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1713 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1716 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1717 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1719 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1720 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1723 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1724 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1726 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1727 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1729 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1730 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1731 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1732 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1734 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1735 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1736 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1737 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1739 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1740 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1743 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1744 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1745 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1746 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1749 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1750 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1751 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1752 + add terminator entry -TD
1753 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1754 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1755 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1759 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1760 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1761 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1762 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1763 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1764 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1765 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1766 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1767 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1768 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1772 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1773 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1774 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1775 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1776 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1777 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1779 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1780 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1781 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1783 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1786 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1787 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1788 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1789 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1791 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1792 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1794 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1795 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1796 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1797 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1798 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1799 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1800 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1801 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1803 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1804 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1806 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1807 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1808 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1809 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1810 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1811 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1812 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1813 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1814 translating to termcap.
1815 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1816 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1819 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1820 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1821 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1822 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1823 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1824 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1826 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1827 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1828 regarding Schilling's test program):
1829 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1830 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1831 + use \040 rather than \s
1832 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1833 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1836 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1837 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1838 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1839 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1840 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1841 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1842 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1843 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1844 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1845 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1846 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1847 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1850 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1851 are not used in the $CC variable.
1852 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1853 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1854 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1855 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1856 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1857 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1860 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1861 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1865 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1866 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1867 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1868 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1869 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1871 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1872 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1874 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1877 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1878 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1881 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1882 + set default prefix to /usr.
1883 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1884 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1885 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1886 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1889 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1890 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1891 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1892 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1894 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1895 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1899 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1902 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1903 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1904 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1906 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1907 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1908 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1909 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1912 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1913 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1914 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1915 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1916 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1917 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1918 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1919 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1920 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1921 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1922 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1925 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1926 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1928 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1929 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1930 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1931 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1934 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1935 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1936 as different types on some Unix systems.
1937 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1938 function pointer passed to tputs().
1939 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1940 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1941 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1942 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1945 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1946 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1947 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1948 + update config.guess, config.sub
1951 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1953 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1954 some ncurses packages.
1955 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1956 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1957 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1959 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1962 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1963 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1964 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1965 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1966 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1967 needed for rpm script.
1968 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1969 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1970 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1973 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1974 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1975 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1976 that sample program.
1977 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1978 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1979 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1980 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1984 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1986 + regen Ada html documentation.
1987 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1988 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1990 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1992 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1993 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1994 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1995 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1996 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1997 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1999 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2000 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2002 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2003 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2006 + regen Ada html documentation.
2007 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2008 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2010 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2011 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2012 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2013 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2014 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2015 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2016 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2017 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2018 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2019 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2020 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2021 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2022 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2023 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2024 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2025 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2026 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2027 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2028 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2031 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2032 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2033 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2035 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2037 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2038 explain.txt is not found.
2041 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2042 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2043 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2044 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2045 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2047 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2050 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2051 + regenerated html manpages.
2052 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2054 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2055 a new install of hashed database.
2056 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2059 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2060 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2061 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2062 wide-character configuration.
2063 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2064 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2067 + regenerated html manpages.
2068 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2069 special case of trace configuration.
2072 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2073 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2074 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2075 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2076 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2080 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2081 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2082 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2083 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2084 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2086 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2087 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2090 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2091 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2092 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2093 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2094 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2095 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2096 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2097 file configuration if that is used.
2098 + update config.guess, config.sub
2101 + regenerated html manpages.
2102 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2104 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2105 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2108 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2109 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2112 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2113 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2114 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2117 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2119 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2120 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2121 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2122 wide-character configuration.
2123 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2124 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2125 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2128 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2129 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2130 version which works with termcap.
2131 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2132 (request by Sven Joachim).
2133 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2134 (report by Sven Joachim).
2137 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2138 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2139 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2142 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2144 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2145 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2148 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2150 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2151 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2152 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2153 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2154 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2155 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2159 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2160 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2161 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2163 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2166 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2168 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2172 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2174 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2175 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2176 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2177 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2178 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2179 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2180 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2181 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2182 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2183 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2184 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2185 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2188 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2189 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2190 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2191 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2192 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2193 external package "cindent".
2196 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2197 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2198 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2199 inconsistent printer-controls.
2200 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2201 form is available -TD
2202 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2204 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2206 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2207 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2208 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2209 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2210 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2212 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2213 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2217 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2218 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2219 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2220 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2221 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2223 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2226 + regenerated html manpages.
2227 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2228 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2229 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2232 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2234 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2235 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2236 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2237 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2241 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2242 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2245 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2246 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2247 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2248 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2249 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2250 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2251 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2255 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2256 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2257 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2258 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2259 by Tim van der Molen).
2260 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2261 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2262 library configuration.
2263 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2264 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2265 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2268 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2270 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2271 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2272 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2273 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2274 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2277 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2278 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2279 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2280 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2281 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2282 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2283 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2284 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2287 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2288 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2289 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2290 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2291 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2292 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2293 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2294 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2297 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2298 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2299 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2300 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2303 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2304 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2305 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2308 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2309 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2310 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2313 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2314 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2315 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2316 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2319 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2320 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2321 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2323 + update Ada95/configure.
2324 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2325 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2326 of updating LIBS variable.
2329 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2330 work with 64-bit compiles.
2331 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2335 + regenerated html documentation.
2336 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2338 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2339 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2340 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2341 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2344 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2345 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2347 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2348 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2349 build- and target-machines differ.
2350 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2351 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2353 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2354 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2357 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2358 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2359 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2360 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2361 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2362 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2363 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2364 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2365 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2366 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2367 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2368 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2369 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2370 found in predefined libraries.
2371 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2374 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2375 (patch by David Benjamin).
2376 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2377 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2378 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2379 may be defined by that route.
2382 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2383 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2384 the predefined include directories.
2385 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2386 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2387 where older versions would produce an error.
2390 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2391 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2392 terminfo to termcap strings
2393 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2394 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2395 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2396 directory was already added.
2397 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2398 directories (which will be ignored).
2401 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2402 + discard motion events
2403 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2404 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2405 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2406 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2409 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2410 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2411 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2412 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2413 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2414 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2415 extended-colors configuration.
2416 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2417 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2418 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2421 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2423 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2424 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2425 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2427 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2428 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2429 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2432 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2433 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2437 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2438 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2439 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2440 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2441 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2442 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2443 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2444 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2445 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2449 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2450 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2451 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2452 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2455 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2457 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2458 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2459 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2462 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2463 making those separately distributable.
2464 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2465 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2469 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2472 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2473 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2474 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2475 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2479 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2480 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2481 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2482 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2485 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2486 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2487 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2488 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2490 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2491 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2492 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2493 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2497 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2498 that line-drawing works.
2499 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2500 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2501 capabilities can run.
2502 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2506 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2507 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2508 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2509 before older in the list.
2510 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2511 + minor documentation cleanup.
2512 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2513 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2514 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2517 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2518 most common case of SGR 0.
2519 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2520 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2521 events remain, it will return ERR.
2524 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2525 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2526 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2527 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2528 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2531 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2532 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2533 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2536 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2537 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2538 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2539 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2540 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2541 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2544 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2545 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2546 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2547 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2548 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2550 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2552 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2554 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2555 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2556 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2558 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2559 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2562 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2563 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2565 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2566 writing terminfo entries.
2567 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2568 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2569 by Nicholas Marriott).
2572 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2574 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2575 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2579 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2580 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2581 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2582 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2583 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2587 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2588 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2589 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2590 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2593 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2594 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2595 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2596 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2597 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2598 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2599 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2602 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2603 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2604 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2605 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2606 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2607 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2608 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2609 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2610 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2611 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2612 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2615 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2616 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2617 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2618 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2621 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2622 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2625 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2626 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2627 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2631 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2632 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2633 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2634 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2635 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2637 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2638 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2641 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2642 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2643 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2644 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2645 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2646 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2648 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2649 library (some work remains for forms library).
2652 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2653 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2654 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2655 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2657 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2658 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2659 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2660 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2663 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2664 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2667 test/test_addchstr.c
2668 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2669 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2670 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2671 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2674 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2676 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2677 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2678 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2679 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2683 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2684 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2685 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2686 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2689 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2690 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2691 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2694 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2697 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2698 broken in 20090510 merging.
2699 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2700 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2701 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2702 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2703 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2704 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2705 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2706 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2708 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2711 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2712 implementation details of hash function.
2715 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2716 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2717 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2720 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2721 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2722 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2723 test/demo_terminfo.c
2724 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2725 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2728 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2729 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2733 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2736 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2738 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2739 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2740 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2741 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2742 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2744 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2745 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2746 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2749 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2750 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2751 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2754 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2755 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2757 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2760 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2761 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2763 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2764 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2768 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2769 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2770 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2773 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2776 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2779 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2780 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2781 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2782 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2785 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2788 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2789 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2790 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2791 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2795 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2798 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2799 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2802 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2805 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2809 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2812 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2813 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2814 part of the form library.
2817 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2818 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2821 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2822 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2823 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2824 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2825 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2826 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2827 a temporary variable.
2828 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2829 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2830 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2831 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2832 with Charles Wilson).
2833 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2834 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2835 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2836 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2837 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2838 digits, after the final '.').
2839 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2840 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2841 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2842 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2843 from 20090321 changes.
2844 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2845 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2846 termlib) is to be linked.
2847 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2848 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2851 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2852 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2853 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2854 (report by Charles Wilson).
2855 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2856 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2857 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2858 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2859 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2862 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2863 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2864 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2865 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2866 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2868 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2869 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2870 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2871 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2872 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2873 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2874 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2875 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2878 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2879 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2880 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2883 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2886 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2888 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2889 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2890 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2891 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2892 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2895 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2896 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2897 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2898 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2899 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2900 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2903 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2904 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2906 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2907 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2908 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2911 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2912 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2913 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2914 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2915 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2916 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2917 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2918 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2919 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2922 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2923 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2925 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2927 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2928 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2931 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2933 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2934 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2935 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2936 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2939 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2940 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2941 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2943 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2944 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2947 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2948 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2949 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2950 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2951 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2952 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2954 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2955 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2957 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2958 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2961 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2962 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2963 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2966 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2967 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2968 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2970 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2971 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2974 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2976 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2977 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2978 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2980 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2981 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2982 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2983 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2984 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2985 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2987 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2988 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2991 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2992 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2993 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2994 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2995 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2996 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2997 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2998 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2999 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3000 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3001 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3004 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3005 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3006 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3007 passing color or video attributes.
3008 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3009 display meta-characters.
3010 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3011 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3012 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3013 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3017 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3018 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3019 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3021 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3024 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3026 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3027 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3029 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3032 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3033 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3034 does not work well on that platform).
3035 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3038 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3039 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3040 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3042 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3043 --disable-database is used.
3044 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3045 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3046 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3047 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3051 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3052 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3053 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3054 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3055 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3056 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3057 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3061 + regenerated html documentation.
3062 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3063 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3064 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3065 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3066 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3067 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3068 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3069 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3072 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3073 works for C/C++ parts).
3074 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3075 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3078 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3079 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3080 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3081 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3082 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3083 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3084 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3085 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3086 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3088 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3089 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3090 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3091 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3092 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3093 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3096 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3097 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3100 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3101 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3102 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3103 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3104 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3105 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3108 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3109 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3112 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3116 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3117 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3118 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3119 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3121 + update test/configure script.
3122 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3123 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3124 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3125 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3126 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3129 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3130 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3132 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3134 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3135 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3136 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3137 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3138 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3139 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3140 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3141 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3142 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3145 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3146 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3147 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3148 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3149 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3150 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3151 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3152 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3153 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3154 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3155 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3159 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3160 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3161 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3162 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3163 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3165 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3166 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3167 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3168 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3169 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3172 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3173 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3174 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3175 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3176 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3177 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3178 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3181 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3185 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3188 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3191 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3192 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3194 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3195 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3196 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3200 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3201 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3203 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3204 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3205 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3206 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3209 + regenerated html documentation.
3210 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3211 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3212 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3213 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3214 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3217 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3218 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3219 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3223 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3224 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3225 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3226 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3227 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3228 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3231 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3232 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3234 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3235 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3236 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3237 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3238 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3239 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3240 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3241 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3242 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3245 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3246 screen which must be updated.
3247 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3248 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3249 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3253 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3254 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3256 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3257 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3258 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3259 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3262 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3263 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3264 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3266 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3270 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3271 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3272 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3275 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3276 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3277 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3278 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3281 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3282 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3284 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3286 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3289 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3290 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3291 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3292 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3293 python-dev2 mailing list).
3296 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3297 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3298 are not associated with a particular screen.
3299 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3300 stdscr to the callback function.
3301 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3302 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3303 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3304 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3305 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3306 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3307 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3311 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3312 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3313 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3314 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3316 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3317 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3318 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3319 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3320 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3323 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3324 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3325 that the 'F' accepts.
3326 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3327 are working concurrently.
3328 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3332 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3333 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3334 _nc_free_and_exit().
3337 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3338 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3341 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3342 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3345 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3346 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3347 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3348 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3351 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3352 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3353 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3354 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3355 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3356 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3358 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3359 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3363 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3364 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3365 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3368 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3369 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3370 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3373 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3374 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3375 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3379 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3380 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3381 "link_test" builds properly.
3382 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3383 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3384 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3385 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3386 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3387 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3388 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3390 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3393 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3397 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3398 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3401 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3403 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3404 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3405 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3408 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3409 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3410 pierre4d2 comments).
3411 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3412 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3413 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3414 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3418 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3419 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3420 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3421 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3422 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3424 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3425 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3426 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3430 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3431 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3434 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3436 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3438 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3442 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3443 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3445 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3446 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3447 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3448 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3449 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3451 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3452 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3455 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3456 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3457 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3458 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3461 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3462 calls within the ncurses library.
3463 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3465 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3466 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3467 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3469 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3470 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3471 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3472 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3473 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3476 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3477 for threaded library (incomplete).
3478 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3479 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3483 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3484 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3485 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3486 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3487 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3488 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3489 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3490 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3491 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3494 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3496 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3497 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3500 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3501 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3502 "\0" followed by a digit.
3503 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3504 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3505 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3506 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3507 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3508 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3509 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3510 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3511 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3514 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3515 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3516 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3517 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3518 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3520 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3521 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3522 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3526 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3527 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3528 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3529 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3530 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3531 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3532 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3533 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3534 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3537 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3538 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3539 + add test/test_getstr.c
3540 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3541 + add test/test_instr.c
3544 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3545 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3546 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3550 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3551 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3552 ".log" to the name and try again.
3553 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3554 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3555 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3556 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3557 --disable-echo option is used.
3558 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3559 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3560 + update config.guess, config.sub
3563 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3564 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3565 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3569 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3570 problems with multi-column characters.
3571 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3572 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3573 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3574 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3575 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3576 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3577 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3580 + add test/demo_panels.c
3581 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3584 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3586 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3587 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3590 + add test/key_name.c
3591 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3592 + update test/configure
3593 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3594 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3595 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3599 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3600 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3601 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3602 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3603 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3604 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3605 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3606 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3607 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3610 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3611 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3612 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3613 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3614 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3615 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3618 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3619 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3621 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3622 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3623 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3624 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3627 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3628 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3629 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3630 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3632 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3634 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3635 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3636 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3637 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3638 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3641 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3642 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3644 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3645 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3646 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3647 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3648 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3649 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3650 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3651 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3652 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3653 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3654 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3657 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3658 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3659 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3660 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3661 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3662 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3663 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3666 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3667 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3668 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3669 Ada95 tree is not built.
3672 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3673 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3674 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3675 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3676 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3677 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3679 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3680 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3681 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3682 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3683 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3684 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3685 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3686 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3687 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3688 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3689 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3690 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3691 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3692 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3693 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3694 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3695 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3696 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3697 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3699 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3700 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3701 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3702 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3703 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3704 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3705 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3706 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3707 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3710 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3711 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3712 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3713 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3714 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3715 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3716 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3717 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3721 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3722 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3723 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3724 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3725 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3729 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3730 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3731 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3732 in the configure script to an error.
3733 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3734 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3735 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3736 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3737 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3739 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3740 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3743 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3744 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3747 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3748 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3750 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3751 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3752 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3753 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3754 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3755 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3756 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3757 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3760 + regenerated html documentation.
3761 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3762 opaque in selected configurations.
3763 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3764 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3765 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3766 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3767 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3768 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3769 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3770 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3771 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3772 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3773 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3775 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3776 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3779 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3780 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3781 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3782 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3783 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3784 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3785 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3786 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3787 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3788 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3789 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3790 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3793 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3795 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3796 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3797 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3799 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3800 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3801 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3802 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3803 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3804 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3805 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3806 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3808 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3809 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3812 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3813 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3815 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3817 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3818 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3819 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3822 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3823 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3824 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3825 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3827 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3828 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3829 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3830 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3831 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3832 no longer relies on it.
3833 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3834 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3835 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3838 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3839 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3842 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3843 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3844 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3845 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3846 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3847 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3848 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3849 its license consistent with ncurses.
3850 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3851 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3852 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3855 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3856 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3857 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3858 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3862 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3863 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3864 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3866 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3867 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3870 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3871 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3872 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3875 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3876 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3877 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3878 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3879 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3880 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3881 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3882 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3883 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3884 to manpages as needed.
3885 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3886 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3889 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3890 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3891 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3892 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3893 + update config.guess, config.sub
3895 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3898 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3899 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3900 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3901 correct nor portable.
3902 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3904 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3905 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3909 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3910 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3911 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3912 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3913 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3914 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3917 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3918 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3919 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3920 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3922 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3923 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3924 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3925 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3926 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3927 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3928 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3929 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3932 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3933 database configuration.
3934 + updates for test/configure script.
3935 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3936 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3938 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3939 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3940 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3941 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3943 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3944 _nc_printf_string().
3945 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3946 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3949 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3950 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3952 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3953 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3957 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3958 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3961 + add test/echochar.c
3962 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3963 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3966 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3967 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3968 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3969 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3972 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3973 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3974 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3976 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3977 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3978 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3979 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3980 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3981 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3982 Ralf S Engelschall).
3983 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3984 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3985 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3986 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3989 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3990 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3991 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3994 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3995 and status line (Alain Bench).
3996 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3997 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3998 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3999 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
4002 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
4003 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
4004 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
4005 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
4006 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
4009 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
4010 + updated html documentation.
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