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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 may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
50 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
51 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
53 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
54 called (report by "Kau").
55 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
58 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
59 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
60 rather than using def_prog_mode().
61 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
62 externals that are used by tack.
63 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
64 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
65 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
67 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
68 + regenerate man-html documentation.
71 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
72 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
73 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
74 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
75 terminal emulators -TD
76 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
78 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
79 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
81 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
82 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
84 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
87 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
88 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
89 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
90 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
92 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
95 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
98 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
99 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
100 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
101 treated as only absent.
102 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
103 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
104 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
107 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
108 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
109 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
110 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
111 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
112 --enable-sp-funcs option.
113 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
114 without modifying API/ABI.
115 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
116 similar options for the other libraries.
119 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
121 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
122 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
123 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
124 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
125 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
126 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
127 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
128 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
131 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
132 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
133 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
134 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
135 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
136 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
137 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
140 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
141 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
142 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
143 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
144 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
145 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
146 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
148 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
149 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
152 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
153 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
154 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
155 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
156 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
160 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
161 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
162 either reset- or init-strings.
163 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
164 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
165 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
166 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
167 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
168 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
169 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
170 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
171 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
172 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
173 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
174 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
177 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
178 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
179 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
180 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
181 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
182 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
183 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
184 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
186 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
187 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
188 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
189 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
191 + update config.guess, config.sub from
192 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
195 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
196 (patch by Leon Winter).
197 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
198 patch by Mihail Konev).
199 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
200 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
204 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
205 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
206 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
207 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
208 did not work after changes in 20130112.
211 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
212 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
213 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
214 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
215 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
216 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
218 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
221 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
222 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
225 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
227 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
228 reverse-video control -TD
229 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
230 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
231 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
232 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
233 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
234 video escape without using a delay.
235 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
236 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
240 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
241 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
242 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
243 by various discussions including
244 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
247 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
248 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
249 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
250 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
253 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
254 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
257 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
260 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
261 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
262 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
263 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
264 not optional in tput.
265 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
266 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
267 for transformed names.
268 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
269 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
272 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
273 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
274 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
275 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
277 + regenerate llib-* files.
278 + regenerate HTML manpages.
279 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
282 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
283 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
284 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
287 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
288 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
290 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
291 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
294 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
295 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
296 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
299 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
300 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
303 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
305 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
306 page (patch by Leon Winter).
307 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
308 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
309 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
310 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
311 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
314 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
316 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
317 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
319 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
320 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
321 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
322 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
326 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
328 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
330 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
331 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
332 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
333 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
334 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
335 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
336 + update config.guess, config.sub from
337 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
340 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
341 modes by sharing functions with tset.
342 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
343 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
344 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
345 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
347 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
350 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
351 handle a case of "configure && make install".
352 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
353 in sed (Debian #818067).
356 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
357 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
358 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
359 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
361 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
362 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
366 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
367 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
368 output or error are redirected.
369 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
373 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
374 redirected to a file or pipe.
375 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
378 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
380 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
381 for special keys, based on xterm.
384 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
387 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
388 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
389 work (report by Sven Joachim).
392 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
393 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
394 to make it more readable.
397 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
398 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
399 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
400 better testing of function-keys.
401 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
402 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
403 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
404 that could be returned -TD
405 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
408 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
409 + add test/list_keys.c
412 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
413 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
416 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
417 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
418 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
419 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
420 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
421 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
422 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
423 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
424 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
425 cannot combine -c and -o options.
428 + regenerate HTML manpages.
429 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
430 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
431 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
432 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
433 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
434 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
437 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
438 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
440 + modify test/ncurses.c:
441 + check return-value of putwin
442 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
443 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
444 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
447 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
448 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
449 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
450 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
454 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
455 PIC builds documented in
456 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
457 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
458 due to program-transformation configure options.
459 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
462 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
463 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
466 + regenerate HTML manpages.
467 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
471 + regenerate HTML manpages.
472 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
473 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
474 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
475 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
476 can handle the event.
479 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
480 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
481 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
482 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
485 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
486 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
487 as responding to window size-changes.
490 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
491 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
494 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
495 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
496 in case weak symbols are used.
497 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
498 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
500 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
501 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
502 + update config.guess, config.sub from
503 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
506 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
507 in threaded configuration.
508 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
509 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
512 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
513 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
514 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
518 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
519 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
520 unwanted blank lines.
523 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
524 (report by Corey Minyard).
525 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
528 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
529 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
530 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
531 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
533 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
534 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
535 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
537 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
538 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
541 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
542 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
543 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
544 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
547 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
548 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
549 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
552 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
554 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
556 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
557 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
560 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
561 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
562 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
563 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
564 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
565 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
566 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
567 drawing characters as double-width.
570 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
571 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
572 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
573 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
574 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
575 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
576 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
577 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
581 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
583 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
585 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
586 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
587 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
588 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
589 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
592 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
593 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
594 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
595 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
598 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
599 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
600 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
601 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
602 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
604 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
605 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
606 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
607 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
608 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
611 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
612 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
613 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
614 install time (cf: 20150822).
615 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
616 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
617 empty "local" section.
618 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
619 to incorrect attribute-masking.
622 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
623 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
624 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
625 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
626 did not display well.
627 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
628 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
629 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
630 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
631 Normand, Novell #946048).
632 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
633 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
634 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
635 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
636 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
637 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
639 + update config.guess, config.sub from
640 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
643 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
644 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
645 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
646 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
647 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
648 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
649 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
650 + support building with libtool on OS/2
651 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
652 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
655 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
656 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
657 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
658 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
660 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
661 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
662 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
665 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
667 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
668 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
671 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
673 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
674 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
675 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
676 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
679 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
681 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
682 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
683 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
684 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
685 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
686 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
688 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
691 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
693 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
694 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
695 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
697 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
698 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
701 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
703 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
704 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
705 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
706 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
707 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
711 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
712 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
713 + update release notes in INSTALL.
714 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
717 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
718 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
719 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
721 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
724 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
725 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
726 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
727 more than 200 snapshots.
728 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
732 + updated llib-* files.
733 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
734 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
736 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
737 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
738 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
739 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
740 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
741 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
742 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
745 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
746 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
747 curs_initscr.3x page.
748 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
749 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
750 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
752 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
753 e.g., ncursestw library.
756 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
757 configuration of ncurses6.
758 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
759 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
760 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
761 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
762 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
765 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
766 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
767 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
770 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
772 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
773 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
774 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
775 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
776 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
777 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
778 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
779 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
780 setupterm and restartterm functions.
781 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
782 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
783 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
787 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
788 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
789 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
790 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
791 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
792 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
793 discussion with Sven Joachim).
794 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
797 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
798 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
799 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
800 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
801 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
802 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
803 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
804 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
805 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
806 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
807 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
808 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
809 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
810 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
813 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
814 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
815 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
816 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
817 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
818 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
819 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
820 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
823 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
824 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
825 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
826 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
827 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
829 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
830 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
833 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
834 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
835 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
836 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
838 + regenerate html manpages.
839 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
840 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
841 Stack Overflow forum):
844 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
845 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
846 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
847 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
848 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
852 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
853 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
854 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
855 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
856 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
858 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
859 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
860 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
861 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
862 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
863 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
865 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
866 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
867 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
868 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
869 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
870 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
872 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
873 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
875 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
876 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
878 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
879 the ncurses library aside from headers.
880 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
881 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
882 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
883 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
884 + update config.guess, config.sub from
885 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
888 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
889 (report by Todd M Lewis).
890 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
891 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
892 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
893 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
894 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
895 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
897 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
898 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
899 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
900 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
901 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
902 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
903 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
906 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
907 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
908 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
909 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
910 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
911 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
912 with the shared libraries.
913 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
914 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
915 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
916 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
917 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
918 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
919 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
920 inherit into new windows.
923 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
924 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
925 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
926 readonly text segment.
929 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
930 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
933 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
934 the extended putwin/getwin.
935 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
937 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
941 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
942 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
943 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
944 for a magic code at the beginning:
945 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
948 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
950 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
951 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
954 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
955 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
956 (report by Grady Martin).
959 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
960 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
961 the wide-character libraries.
962 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
964 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
965 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
968 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
969 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
970 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
974 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
975 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
978 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
979 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
980 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
981 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
982 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
985 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
986 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
987 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
990 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
991 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
992 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
994 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
995 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
996 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
997 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
998 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
999 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1000 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1001 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1002 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1003 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1006 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1007 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1008 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1009 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1010 variations in ABI 6.
1013 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1014 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1018 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1022 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1023 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1024 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1025 the ABI 5 libraries.
1026 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1027 regenerate html-manpages.
1030 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1031 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1033 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1034 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1035 package for ncurses6.
1036 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1037 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1038 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1039 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1040 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1041 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1045 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1046 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1047 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1048 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1049 gcc introduced here:
1050 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1051 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1052 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1053 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1056 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1057 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1058 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1059 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1060 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1063 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1064 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1065 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1066 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1067 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1068 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1069 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1073 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1074 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1078 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1079 msys2 configuration.
1082 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1083 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1084 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1085 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1086 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1088 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1089 (report by Mike Gran).
1092 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1093 demonstration of its limitations.
1094 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1095 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1096 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1097 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1098 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1099 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1100 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1102 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1103 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1106 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1107 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1108 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1110 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1111 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1112 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1113 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1114 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1115 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1116 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1117 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1120 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1121 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1122 some older cross-compiler environments.
1123 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1124 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1125 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1126 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1127 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1128 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1129 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1130 + update config.sub from
1131 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1134 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1135 C++ cross-compilers.
1136 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1139 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1141 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1144 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1145 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1146 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1149 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1150 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1154 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1155 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1156 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1159 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1160 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1161 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1162 + regenerated html manpages.
1163 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1164 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1165 which reverses cause/effect.
1166 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1167 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1168 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1169 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1174 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1175 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1176 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1177 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1179 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1180 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1181 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1182 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1186 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1187 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1188 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1189 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1190 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1191 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1192 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1193 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1194 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1197 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1198 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1199 options, from xterm changes.
1202 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1203 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1207 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1208 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1211 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1212 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1213 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1214 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1215 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1216 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1217 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1220 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1221 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1222 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1223 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1224 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1225 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1226 providing directly comparable screens.
1227 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1230 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1232 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1233 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1234 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1235 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1236 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1237 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1238 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1241 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1242 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1243 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1244 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1245 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1248 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1249 overlap with sgr functionality.
1250 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1251 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1252 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1253 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1254 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1255 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1256 older ncurses than 20131207.
1257 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1258 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1259 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1260 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1261 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1264 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1265 environment variable.
1266 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1267 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1268 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1269 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1270 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1271 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1272 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1273 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1274 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1275 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1276 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1277 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1278 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1279 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1281 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1283 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1284 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1285 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1287 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1288 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1289 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1290 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1291 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1292 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1293 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1295 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1297 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1298 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1299 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1300 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1301 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1302 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1303 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1304 to be consecutive anyway.
1305 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1306 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1307 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1308 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1311 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1312 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1313 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1316 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1317 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1318 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1319 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1322 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1324 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1325 simplify later merging:
1326 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1327 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1328 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1329 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1330 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1334 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1335 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1338 + modify configure script:
1339 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1340 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1341 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1342 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1343 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1344 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1345 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1346 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1347 "#win32console", and
1348 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1349 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1352 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1353 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1354 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1355 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1356 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1357 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1361 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1364 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1365 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1366 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1367 + add terminology entry -TD
1368 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1369 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1372 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1373 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1374 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1375 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1376 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1380 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1381 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1382 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1383 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1384 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1387 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1390 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1391 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1392 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1396 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1397 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1398 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1399 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1400 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1401 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1403 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1404 html emitted by docbook.
1407 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1408 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1409 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1410 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1413 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1414 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1415 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1416 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1417 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1418 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1421 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1422 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1423 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1424 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1427 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1428 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1431 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1433 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1436 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1437 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1438 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1439 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1441 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1443 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1444 + updated llib-l* files.
1447 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1448 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1452 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1453 recognized by clang.
1456 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1457 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1458 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1459 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1460 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1461 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1462 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1463 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1464 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1465 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1466 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1467 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1469 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1471 + update config.sub from
1472 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1475 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1478 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1479 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1480 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1481 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1483 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1486 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1487 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1488 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1489 them more consistent with other packages.
1492 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1493 compiling ncurses-examples.
1494 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1497 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1500 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1501 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1502 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1503 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1504 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1508 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1509 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1513 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1514 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1516 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1518 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1519 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1520 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1521 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1522 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1525 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1526 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1527 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1530 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1532 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1533 before/after Debian #700177.
1534 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1535 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1537 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1538 of sort, improving portability.
1539 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1540 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1541 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1544 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1545 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1547 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1548 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1549 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1552 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1553 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1554 introduced by Debian #700177.
1555 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1556 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1559 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1560 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1562 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1563 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1564 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1567 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1568 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1570 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1571 cross-compile support packages.
1572 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1575 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1576 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1577 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1578 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1579 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1580 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1581 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1582 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1583 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1584 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1585 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1586 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1589 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1590 initialization of cur_term.
1593 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1594 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1597 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1598 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1599 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1600 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1601 --enable-auto-import flag.
1602 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1606 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1607 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1608 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1609 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1610 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1612 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1613 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1614 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1617 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1618 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1619 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1621 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1622 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1623 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1624 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1625 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1626 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1629 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1630 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1632 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1633 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1634 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1635 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1636 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1637 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1638 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1639 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1640 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1641 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1643 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1644 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1647 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1648 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1649 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1650 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1651 the left margin of the display.
1652 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1653 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1654 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1655 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1658 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1659 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1660 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1661 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1662 + regenerated html manpages.
1663 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1666 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1667 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1668 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1669 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1670 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1671 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1674 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1675 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1676 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1677 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1678 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1681 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1682 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1685 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1686 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1687 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1688 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1689 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1691 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1692 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1693 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1694 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1697 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1698 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1699 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1700 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1702 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1704 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1706 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1709 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1713 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1714 (report by Christian Ebert).
1715 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1716 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1717 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1720 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1721 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1722 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1723 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1724 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1725 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1726 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1727 by Benjamin Sittler)
1728 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1729 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1730 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1731 line split after "%;".
1732 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1733 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1736 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1737 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1738 + regenerated html manpages.
1739 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1740 + updated some autoconf macros:
1741 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1742 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1743 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1744 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1745 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1746 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1747 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1748 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1751 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1752 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1754 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1755 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1757 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1758 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1759 of raw input in MinGW port.
1762 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1763 + update config.guess, config.sub
1766 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1768 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1770 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1771 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1772 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1773 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1774 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1775 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1776 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1778 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1779 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1782 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1783 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1785 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1786 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1787 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1790 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1791 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1792 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1795 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1796 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1797 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1798 help reduce flicker.
1799 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1800 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1801 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1802 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1803 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1804 Dennis Grevenstein).
1805 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1806 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1807 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1810 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1811 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1812 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1813 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1814 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1815 + improve error-checking in copywin
1816 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1817 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1818 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1819 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1820 matching capability names.
1821 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1822 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1823 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1826 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1827 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1828 are unused in the current driver model.
1829 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1831 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1832 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1833 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1834 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1837 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1838 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1840 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1841 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1842 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1843 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1844 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1847 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1848 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1849 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1853 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1855 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1856 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1858 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1859 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1860 wide-character which can be used.
1863 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1864 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1865 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1866 by Erwin Waterlander).
1867 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1868 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1869 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1870 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1871 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1872 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1876 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1877 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1878 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1879 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1880 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1881 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1882 + remove a few redundant checks.
1883 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1885 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1886 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1887 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1888 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1890 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1891 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1892 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1896 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1897 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1898 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1902 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1903 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1904 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1905 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1908 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1909 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1910 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1911 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1912 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1913 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1914 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1915 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1917 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1918 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1919 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1920 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1923 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1924 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1925 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1927 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1928 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1929 libraries or executables.
1932 + realign these related pages:
1937 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1938 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1939 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1940 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1941 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1942 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1943 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1944 based on testing with tack -TD
1945 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1946 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1949 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1951 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1952 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1953 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1956 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1960 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1961 (patch by Christian Persch).
1964 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1966 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1967 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1968 has used that for a while.
1969 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1970 for experimental use.
1971 + remove unused configure macros.
1972 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1973 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1974 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1975 + update config.guess, config.sub
1978 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1979 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1980 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1981 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1982 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1983 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1984 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1987 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1988 to help with MinGW port.
1991 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1993 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1996 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1999 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2000 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2001 might not be allocated.
2002 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2005 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2006 initial screen-sizes.
2007 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2008 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2012 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2013 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2017 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2018 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2019 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2021 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2022 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2025 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2026 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2027 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2028 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2029 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2030 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2031 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2035 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2036 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2037 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2038 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2039 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2040 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2041 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2042 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2046 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2047 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2048 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2049 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2050 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2051 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2054 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2058 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2060 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2062 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2063 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2064 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2065 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2066 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2067 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2070 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2072 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2073 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2074 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2076 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2077 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2080 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2081 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2082 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2085 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2086 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2088 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2089 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2091 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2092 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2095 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2097 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2098 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2099 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2100 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2101 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2102 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2105 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2106 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2107 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2108 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2109 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2110 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2111 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2112 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2113 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2115 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2116 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2117 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2118 Onno van der Linden).
2121 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2123 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2125 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2126 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2129 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2130 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2131 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2132 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2133 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2134 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2135 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2138 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2139 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2140 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2141 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2142 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2143 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2144 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2145 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2146 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2147 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2148 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2149 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2150 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2151 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2152 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2155 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2156 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2157 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2158 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2159 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2160 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2161 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2162 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2163 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2164 are interpreted as key definitions.
2165 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2166 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2170 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2171 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2172 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2173 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2174 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2175 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2176 as building-blocks -TD
2177 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2180 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2181 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2182 title is a status-line. -TD
2183 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2184 of ordering and overrides -TD
2185 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2186 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2187 used in that file -TD
2190 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2191 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2192 definable capabilities.
2193 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2194 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2195 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2196 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2197 embedded in the description.
2198 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2199 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2200 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2201 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2202 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2203 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2206 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2207 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2208 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2209 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2210 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2211 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2212 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2213 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2216 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2217 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2218 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2219 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2220 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2221 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2224 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2225 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2226 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2228 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2229 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2230 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2231 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2234 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2235 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2236 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2239 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2240 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2241 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2243 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2244 calls to setupterm().
2245 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2247 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2248 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2249 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2251 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2255 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2258 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2260 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2261 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2262 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2263 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2264 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2265 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2267 + update config.guess, config.sub
2270 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2271 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2272 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2273 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2274 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2275 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2276 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2277 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2278 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2281 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2282 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2283 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2284 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2285 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2286 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2287 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2288 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2289 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2290 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2291 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2292 Linux versus most other systems.
2295 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2299 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2300 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2301 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2302 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2303 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2304 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2305 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2306 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2307 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2308 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2309 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2310 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2311 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2312 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2315 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2317 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2319 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2320 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2321 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2322 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2325 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2327 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2328 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2329 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2330 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2331 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2333 + regenerated html manpages.
2336 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2337 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2338 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2339 + change recommended regular expression library.
2340 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2341 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2344 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2345 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2346 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2347 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2348 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2349 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2350 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2354 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2355 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2357 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2360 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2362 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2364 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2365 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2366 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2368 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2370 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2373 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2374 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2375 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2376 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2378 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2379 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2380 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2383 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2384 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2386 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2389 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2391 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2393 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2395 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2396 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2397 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2398 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2399 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2400 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2401 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2404 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2405 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2407 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2408 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2409 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2410 database (cf: 20111001).
2413 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2414 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2415 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2417 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2418 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2420 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2421 in older FreeBSD machines.
2422 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2423 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2424 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2427 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2428 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2429 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2430 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2431 root's home directory.
2432 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2433 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2434 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2435 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2436 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2438 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2439 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2440 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2441 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2442 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2443 (report by Peter Kruse).
2446 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2447 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2449 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2451 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2452 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2453 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2456 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2457 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2458 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2459 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2460 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2461 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2464 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2465 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2466 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2467 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2468 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2471 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2472 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2473 input and output of termcap source.
2474 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2475 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2476 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2477 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2478 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2479 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2480 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2481 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2482 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2485 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2488 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2490 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2491 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2492 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2493 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2495 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2498 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2499 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2501 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2502 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2505 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2506 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2508 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2509 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2511 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2512 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2513 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2514 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2516 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2517 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2518 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2519 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2521 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2522 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2525 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2526 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2527 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2528 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2531 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2532 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2533 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2534 + add terminator entry -TD
2535 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2536 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2537 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2541 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2542 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2543 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2544 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2545 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2546 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2547 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2548 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2549 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2550 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2554 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2555 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2556 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2557 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2558 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2559 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2561 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2562 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2563 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2565 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2568 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2569 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2570 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2571 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2573 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2574 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2576 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2577 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2578 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2579 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2580 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2581 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2582 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2583 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2585 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2586 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2588 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2589 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2590 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2591 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2592 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2593 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2594 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2595 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2596 translating to termcap.
2597 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2598 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2601 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2602 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2603 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2604 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2605 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2606 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2608 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2609 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2610 regarding Schilling's test program):
2611 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2612 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2613 + use \040 rather than \s
2614 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2615 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2618 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2619 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2620 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2621 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2622 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2623 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2624 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2625 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2626 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2627 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2628 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2629 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2632 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2633 are not used in the $CC variable.
2634 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2635 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2636 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2637 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2638 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2639 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2642 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2643 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2647 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2648 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2649 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2650 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2651 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2653 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2654 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2656 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2659 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2660 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2663 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2664 + set default prefix to /usr.
2665 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2666 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2667 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2668 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2671 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2672 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2673 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2674 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2676 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2677 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2681 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2684 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2685 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2686 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2688 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2689 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2690 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2691 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2694 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2695 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2696 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2697 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2698 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2699 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2700 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2701 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2702 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2703 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2704 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2707 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2708 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2710 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2711 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2712 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2713 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2716 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2717 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2718 as different types on some Unix systems.
2719 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2720 function pointer passed to tputs().
2721 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2722 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2723 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2724 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2727 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2728 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2729 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2730 + update config.guess, config.sub
2733 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2735 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2736 some ncurses packages.
2737 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2738 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2739 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2741 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2744 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2745 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2746 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2747 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2748 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2749 needed for rpm script.
2750 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2751 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2752 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2755 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2756 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2757 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2758 that sample program.
2759 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2760 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2761 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2762 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2766 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2768 + regen Ada html documentation.
2769 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2770 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2772 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2774 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2775 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2776 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2777 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2778 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2779 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2781 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2782 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2784 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2785 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2788 + regen Ada html documentation.
2789 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2790 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2792 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2793 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2794 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2795 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2796 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2797 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2798 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2799 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2800 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2801 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2802 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2803 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2804 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2805 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2806 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2807 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2808 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2809 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2810 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2813 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2814 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2815 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2817 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2819 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2820 explain.txt is not found.
2823 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2824 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2825 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2826 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2827 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2829 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2832 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2833 + regenerated html manpages.
2834 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2836 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2837 a new install of hashed database.
2838 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2841 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2842 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2843 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2844 wide-character configuration.
2845 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2846 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2849 + regenerated html manpages.
2850 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2851 special case of trace configuration.
2854 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2855 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2856 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2857 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2858 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2862 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2863 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2864 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2865 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2866 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2868 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2869 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2872 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2873 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2874 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2875 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2876 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2877 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2878 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2879 file configuration if that is used.
2880 + update config.guess, config.sub
2883 + regenerated html manpages.
2884 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2886 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2887 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2890 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2891 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2894 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2895 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2896 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2899 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2901 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2902 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2903 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2904 wide-character configuration.
2905 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2906 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2907 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2910 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2911 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2912 version which works with termcap.
2913 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2914 (request by Sven Joachim).
2915 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2916 (report by Sven Joachim).
2919 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2920 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2921 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2924 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2926 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2927 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2930 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2932 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2933 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2934 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2935 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2936 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2937 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2941 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2942 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2943 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2945 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2948 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2950 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2954 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2956 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2957 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2958 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2959 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2960 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2961 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2962 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2963 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2964 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2965 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2966 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2967 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2970 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2971 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2972 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2973 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2974 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2975 external package "cindent".
2978 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2979 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2980 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2981 inconsistent printer-controls.
2982 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2983 form is available -TD
2984 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2986 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2988 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2989 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2990 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2991 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2992 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2994 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2995 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2999 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3000 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3001 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3002 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3003 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3005 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3008 + regenerated html manpages.
3009 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3010 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3011 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3014 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3016 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3017 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3018 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3019 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3023 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3024 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3027 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3028 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3029 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3030 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3031 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3032 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3033 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3037 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3038 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3039 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3040 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3041 by Tim van der Molen).
3042 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3043 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3044 library configuration.
3045 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3046 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3047 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3050 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3052 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3053 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3054 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3055 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3056 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3059 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3060 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3061 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3062 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3063 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3064 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3065 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3066 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3069 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3070 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3071 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3072 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3073 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3074 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3075 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3076 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3079 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3080 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3081 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3082 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3085 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3086 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3087 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3090 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3091 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3092 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3095 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3096 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3097 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3098 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3101 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3102 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3103 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3105 + update Ada95/configure.
3106 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3107 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3108 of updating LIBS variable.
3111 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3112 work with 64-bit compiles.
3113 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3117 + regenerated html documentation.
3118 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3120 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3121 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3122 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3123 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3126 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3127 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3129 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3130 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3131 build- and target-machines differ.
3132 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3133 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3135 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3136 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3139 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3140 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3141 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3142 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3143 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3144 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3145 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3146 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3147 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3148 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3149 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3150 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3151 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3152 found in predefined libraries.
3153 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3156 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3157 (patch by David Benjamin).
3158 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3159 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3160 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3161 may be defined by that route.
3164 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3165 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3166 the predefined include directories.
3167 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3168 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3169 where older versions would produce an error.
3172 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3173 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3174 terminfo to termcap strings
3175 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3176 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3177 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3178 directory was already added.
3179 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3180 directories (which will be ignored).
3183 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3184 + discard motion events
3185 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3186 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3187 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3188 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3191 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3192 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3193 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3194 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3195 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3196 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3197 extended-colors configuration.
3198 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3199 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3200 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3203 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3205 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3206 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3207 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3209 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3210 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3211 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3214 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3215 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3219 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3220 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3221 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3222 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3223 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3224 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3225 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3226 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3227 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3231 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3232 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3233 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3234 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3237 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3239 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3240 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3241 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3244 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3245 making those separately distributable.
3246 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3247 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3251 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3254 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3255 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3256 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3257 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3261 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3262 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3263 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3264 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3267 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3268 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3269 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3270 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3272 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3273 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3274 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3275 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3279 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3280 that line-drawing works.
3281 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3282 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3283 capabilities can run.
3284 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3288 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3289 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3290 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3291 before older in the list.
3292 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3293 + minor documentation cleanup.
3294 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3295 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3296 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3299 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3300 most common case of SGR 0.
3301 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3302 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3303 events remain, it will return ERR.
3306 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3307 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3308 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3309 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3310 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3313 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3314 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3315 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3318 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3319 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3320 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3321 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3322 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3323 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3326 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3327 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3328 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3329 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3330 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3332 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3334 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3336 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3337 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3338 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3340 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3341 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3344 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3345 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3347 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3348 writing terminfo entries.
3349 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3350 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3351 by Nicholas Marriott).
3354 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3356 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3357 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3361 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3362 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3363 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3364 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3365 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3369 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3370 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3371 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3372 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3375 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3376 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3377 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3378 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3379 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3380 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3381 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3384 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3385 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3386 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3387 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3388 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3389 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3390 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3391 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3392 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3393 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3394 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3397 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3398 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3399 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3400 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3403 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3404 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3407 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3408 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3409 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3413 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3414 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3415 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3416 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3417 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3419 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3420 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3423 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3424 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3425 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3426 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3427 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3428 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3430 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3431 library (some work remains for forms library).
3434 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3435 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3436 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3437 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3439 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3440 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3441 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3442 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3445 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3446 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3449 test/test_addchstr.c
3450 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3451 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3452 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3453 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3456 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3458 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3459 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3460 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3461 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3465 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3466 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3467 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3468 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3471 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3472 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3473 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3476 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3479 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3480 broken in 20090510 merging.
3481 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3482 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3483 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3484 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3485 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3486 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3487 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3488 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3490 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3493 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3494 implementation details of hash function.
3497 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3498 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3499 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3502 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3503 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3504 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3505 test/demo_terminfo.c
3506 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3507 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3510 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3511 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3515 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3518 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3520 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3521 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3522 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3523 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3524 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3526 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3527 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3528 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3531 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3532 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3533 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3536 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3537 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3539 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3542 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3543 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3545 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3546 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3550 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3551 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3552 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3555 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3558 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3561 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3562 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3563 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3564 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3567 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3570 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3571 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3572 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3573 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3577 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3580 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3581 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3584 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3587 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3591 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3594 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3595 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3596 part of the form library.
3599 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3600 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3603 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3604 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3605 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3606 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3607 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3608 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3609 a temporary variable.
3610 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3611 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3612 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3613 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3614 with Charles Wilson).
3615 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3616 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3617 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3618 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3619 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3620 digits, after the final '.').
3621 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3622 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3623 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3624 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3625 from 20090321 changes.
3626 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3627 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3628 termlib) is to be linked.
3629 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3630 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3633 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3634 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3635 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3636 (report by Charles Wilson).
3637 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3638 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3639 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3640 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3641 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
3644 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
3645 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
3646 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
3647 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
3648 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
3650 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3651 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
3652 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
3653 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
3654 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
3655 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
3656 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
3657 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
3660 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3661 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
3662 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
3665 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3668 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
3670 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3671 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
3672 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
3673 some internals work is needed to complete these).
3674 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
3677 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
3678 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
3679 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
3680 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3681 + make it work with $DESTDIR
3682 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3685 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3686 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3688 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3689 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3690 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3693 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3694 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3695 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3696 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3697 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3698 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3699 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3700 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3701 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3704 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3705 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3707 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3709 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3710 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3713 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3715 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3716 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3717 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3718 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3721 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3722 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3723 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3725 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3726 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3729 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3730 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3731 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3732 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3733 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3734 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3736 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3737 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3739 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3740 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3743 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3744 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3745 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3748 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3749 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3750 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3752 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3753 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3756 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3758 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3759 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3760 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3762 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3763 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3764 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3765 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3766 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3767 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3769 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3770 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3773 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3774 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3775 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3776 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3777 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3778 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3779 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3780 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3781 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3782 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3783 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3786 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3787 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3788 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3789 passing color or video attributes.
3790 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3791 display meta-characters.
3792 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3793 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3794 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3795 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3799 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3800 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3801 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3803 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3806 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3808 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3809 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3811 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3814 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3815 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3816 does not work well on that platform).
3817 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3820 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3821 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3822 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3824 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3825 --disable-database is used.
3826 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3827 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3828 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3829 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3833 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3834 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3835 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3836 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3837 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3838 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3839 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3843 + regenerated html documentation.
3844 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3845 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3846 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3847 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3848 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3849 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3850 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3851 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3854 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3855 works for C/C++ parts).
3856 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3857 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3860 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3861 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3862 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3863 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3864 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3865 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3866 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3867 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3868 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3870 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3871 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3872 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3873 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3874 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3875 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3878 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3879 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3882 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3883 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3884 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3885 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3886 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3887 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3890 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3891 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3894 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3898 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3899 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3900 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3901 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3903 + update test/configure script.
3904 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3905 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3906 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3907 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3908 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3911 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3912 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3914 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3916 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3917 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3918 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3919 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3920 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3921 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3922 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3923 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3924 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3927 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3928 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3929 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3930 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3931 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3932 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3933 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3934 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3935 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3936 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3937 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3941 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3942 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3943 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3944 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3945 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3947 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3948 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3949 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3950 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3951 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3954 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3955 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3956 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3957 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3958 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3959 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3960 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3963 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3967 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3970 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3973 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3974 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3976 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3977 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3978 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3982 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3983 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3985 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3986 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3987 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3988 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3991 + regenerated html documentation.
3992 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3993 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3994 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3995 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3996 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3999 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
4000 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
4001 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
4005 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
4006 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
4007 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
4008 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
4009 window which is being used in a wgetch().
4010 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.