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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + regenerate HTML manpages.
50 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
51 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
52 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
53 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
54 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
55 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
58 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
59 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
61 + modify test/ncurses.c:
62 + check return-value of putwin
63 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
64 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
65 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
68 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
69 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
70 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
71 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
75 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
76 PIC builds documented in
77 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
78 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
79 due to program-transformation configure options.
80 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
83 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
84 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
87 + regenerate HTML manpages.
88 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
92 + regenerate HTML manpages.
93 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
94 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
95 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
96 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
100 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
101 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
102 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
103 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
106 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
107 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
108 as responding to window size-changes.
111 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
112 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
115 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
116 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
117 in case weak symbols are used.
118 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
119 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
121 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
122 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
123 + update config.guess, config.sub from
124 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
127 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
128 in threaded configuration.
129 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
130 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
133 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
134 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
135 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
139 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
140 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
141 unwanted blank lines.
144 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
145 (report by Corey Minyard).
146 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
149 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
150 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
151 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
152 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
154 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
155 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
156 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
158 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
159 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
162 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
163 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
164 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
165 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
168 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
169 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
170 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
173 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
175 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
177 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
178 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
181 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
182 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
183 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
184 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
185 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
186 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
187 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
188 drawing characters as double-width.
191 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
192 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
193 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
194 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
195 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
196 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
197 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
198 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
202 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
204 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
206 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
207 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
208 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
209 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
210 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
213 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
214 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
215 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
216 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
219 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
220 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
221 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
222 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
223 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
225 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
226 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
227 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
228 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
229 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
232 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
233 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
234 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
235 install time (cf: 20150822).
236 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
237 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
238 empty "local" section.
239 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
240 to incorrect attribute-masking.
243 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
244 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
245 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
246 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
247 did not display well.
248 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
249 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
250 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
251 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
252 Normand, Novell #946048).
253 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
254 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
255 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
256 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
257 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
258 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
260 + update config.guess, config.sub from
261 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
264 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
265 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
266 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
267 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
268 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
269 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
270 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
271 + support building with libtool on OS/2
272 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
273 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
276 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
277 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
278 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
279 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
281 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
282 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
283 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
286 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
288 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
289 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
292 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
294 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
295 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
296 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
297 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
300 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
302 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
303 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
304 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
305 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
306 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
307 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
309 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
312 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
314 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
315 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
316 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
318 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
319 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
322 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
324 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
325 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
326 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
327 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
328 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
332 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
333 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
334 + update release notes in INSTALL.
335 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
338 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
339 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
340 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
342 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
345 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
346 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
347 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
348 more than 200 snapshots.
349 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
353 + updated llib-* files.
354 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
355 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
357 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
358 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
359 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
360 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
361 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
362 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
363 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
366 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
367 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
368 curs_initscr.3x page.
369 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
370 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
371 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
373 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
374 e.g., ncursestw library.
377 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
378 configuration of ncurses6.
379 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
380 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
381 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
382 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
383 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
386 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
387 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
388 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
391 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
393 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
394 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
395 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
396 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
397 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
398 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
399 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
400 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
401 setupterm and restartterm functions.
402 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
403 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
404 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
408 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
409 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
410 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
411 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
412 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
413 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
414 discussion with Sven Joachim).
415 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
418 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
419 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
420 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
421 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
422 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
423 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
424 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
425 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
426 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
427 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
428 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
429 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
430 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
431 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
434 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
435 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
436 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
437 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
438 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
439 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
440 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
441 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
444 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
445 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
446 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
447 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
448 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
450 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
451 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
454 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
455 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
456 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
457 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
459 + regenerate html manpages.
460 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
461 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
462 Stack Overflow forum):
465 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
466 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
467 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
468 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
469 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
473 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
474 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
475 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
476 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
477 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
479 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
480 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
481 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
482 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
483 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
484 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
486 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
487 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
488 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
489 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
490 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
491 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
493 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
494 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
496 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
497 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
499 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
500 the ncurses library aside from headers.
501 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
502 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
503 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
504 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
505 + update config.guess, config.sub from
506 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
509 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
510 (report by Todd M Lewis).
511 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
512 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
513 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
514 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
515 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
516 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
518 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
519 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
520 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
521 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
522 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
523 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
524 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
527 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
528 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
529 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
530 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
531 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
532 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
533 with the shared libraries.
534 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
535 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
536 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
537 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
538 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
539 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
540 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
541 inherit into new windows.
544 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
545 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
546 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
547 readonly text segment.
550 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
551 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
554 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
555 the extended putwin/getwin.
556 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
558 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
562 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
563 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
564 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
565 for a magic code at the beginning:
566 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
569 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
571 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
572 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
575 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
576 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
577 (report by Grady Martin).
580 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
581 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
582 the wide-character libraries.
583 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
585 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
586 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
589 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
590 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
591 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
595 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
596 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
599 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
600 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
601 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
602 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
603 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
606 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
607 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
608 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
611 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
612 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
613 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
615 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
616 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
617 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
618 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
619 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
620 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
621 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
622 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
623 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
624 (report by Pavel Balaev).
627 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
628 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
629 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
630 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
634 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
635 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
639 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
643 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
644 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
645 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
647 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
648 regenerate html-manpages.
651 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
652 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
654 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
655 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
656 package for ncurses6.
657 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
658 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
659 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
660 in the corresponding ".map" files.
661 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
662 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
666 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
667 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
668 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
669 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
671 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
672 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
673 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
674 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
677 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
678 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
679 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
680 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
681 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
684 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
685 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
686 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
687 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
688 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
689 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
690 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
694 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
695 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
699 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
703 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
704 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
705 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
706 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
707 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
709 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
710 (report by Mike Gran).
713 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
714 demonstration of its limitations.
715 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
716 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
717 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
718 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
719 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
720 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
721 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
723 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
724 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
727 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
728 + implement flash in win_driver.c
729 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
731 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
732 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
733 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
734 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
735 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
736 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
737 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
738 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
741 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
742 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
743 some older cross-compiler environments.
744 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
745 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
746 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
747 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
748 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
749 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
750 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
751 + update config.sub from
752 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
755 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
757 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
760 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
762 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
765 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
766 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
767 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
770 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
771 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
775 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
776 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
777 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
780 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
781 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
782 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
783 + regenerated html manpages.
784 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
785 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
786 which reverses cause/effect.
787 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
788 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
789 + fixes for win_driver.c:
790 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
795 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
796 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
797 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
798 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
800 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
801 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
802 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
803 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
807 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
808 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
809 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
810 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
811 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
812 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
813 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
814 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
815 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
818 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
819 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
820 options, from xterm changes.
823 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
824 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
828 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
829 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
832 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
833 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
834 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
835 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
836 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
837 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
838 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
841 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
842 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
843 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
844 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
845 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
846 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
847 providing directly comparable screens.
848 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
851 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
853 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
854 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
855 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
856 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
857 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
858 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
859 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
862 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
863 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
864 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
865 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
866 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
869 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
870 overlap with sgr functionality.
871 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
872 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
873 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
874 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
875 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
876 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
877 older ncurses than 20131207.
878 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
879 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
880 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
881 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
882 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
885 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
886 environment variable.
887 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
888 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
889 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
890 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
891 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
892 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
893 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
894 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
895 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
896 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
897 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
898 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
899 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
900 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
902 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
904 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
905 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
906 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
908 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
909 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
910 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
911 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
912 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
913 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
914 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
916 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
918 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
919 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
920 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
921 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
922 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
923 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
924 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
925 to be consecutive anyway.
926 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
927 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
928 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
929 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
932 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
933 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
934 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
937 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
938 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
939 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
940 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
943 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
945 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
946 simplify later merging:
947 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
948 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
949 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
950 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
951 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
955 + update config.guess, config.sub from
956 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
959 + modify configure script:
960 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
961 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
962 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
963 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
964 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
965 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
966 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
967 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
969 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
970 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
973 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
974 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
975 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
976 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
977 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
978 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
982 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
985 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
986 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
987 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
988 + add terminology entry -TD
989 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
990 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
993 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
994 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
995 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
996 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
997 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1001 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1002 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1003 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1004 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1005 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1008 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1011 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1012 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1013 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1017 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1018 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1019 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1020 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1021 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1022 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1024 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1025 html emitted by docbook.
1028 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1029 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1030 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1031 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1034 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1035 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1036 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1037 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1038 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1039 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1042 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1043 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1044 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1045 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1048 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1049 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1052 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1054 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1057 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1058 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1059 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1060 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1062 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1064 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1065 + updated llib-l* files.
1068 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1069 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1073 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1074 recognized by clang.
1077 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1078 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1079 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1080 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1081 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1082 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1083 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1084 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1085 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1086 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1087 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1088 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1090 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1092 + update config.sub from
1093 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1096 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1099 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1100 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1101 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1102 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1104 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1107 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1108 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1109 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1110 them more consistent with other packages.
1113 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1114 compiling ncurses-examples.
1115 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1118 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1121 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1122 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1123 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1124 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1125 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1129 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1130 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1134 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1135 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1137 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1139 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1140 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1141 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1142 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1143 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1146 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1147 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1148 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1151 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1153 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1154 before/after Debian #700177.
1155 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1156 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1158 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1159 of sort, improving portability.
1160 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1161 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1162 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1165 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1166 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1168 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1169 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1170 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1173 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1174 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1175 introduced by Debian #700177.
1176 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1177 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1180 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1181 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1183 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1184 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1185 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1188 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1189 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1191 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1192 cross-compile support packages.
1193 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1196 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1197 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1198 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1199 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1200 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1201 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1202 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1203 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1204 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1205 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1206 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1207 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1210 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1211 initialization of cur_term.
1214 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1215 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1218 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1219 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1220 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1221 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1222 --enable-auto-import flag.
1223 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1227 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1228 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1229 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1230 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1231 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1233 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1234 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1235 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1238 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1239 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1240 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1242 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1243 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1244 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1245 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1246 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1247 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1250 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1251 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1253 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1254 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1255 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1256 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1257 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1258 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1259 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1260 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1261 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1262 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1264 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1265 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1268 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1269 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1270 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1271 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1272 the left margin of the display.
1273 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1274 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1275 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1276 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1279 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1280 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1281 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1282 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1283 + regenerated html manpages.
1284 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1287 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1288 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1289 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1290 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1291 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1292 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1295 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1296 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1297 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1298 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1299 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1302 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1303 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1306 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1307 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1308 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1309 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1310 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1312 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1313 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1314 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1315 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1318 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1319 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1320 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1321 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1323 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1325 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1327 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1330 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1334 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1335 (report by Christian Ebert).
1336 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1337 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1338 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1341 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1342 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1343 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1344 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1345 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1346 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1347 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1348 by Benjamin Sittler)
1349 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1350 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1351 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1352 line split after "%;".
1353 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1354 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1357 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1358 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1359 + regenerated html manpages.
1360 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1361 + updated some autoconf macros:
1362 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1363 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1364 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1365 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1366 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1367 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1368 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1369 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1372 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1373 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1375 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1376 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1378 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1379 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1380 of raw input in MinGW port.
1383 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1384 + update config.guess, config.sub
1387 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1389 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1391 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1392 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1393 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1394 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1395 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1396 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1397 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1399 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1400 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1403 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1404 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1406 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1407 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1408 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1411 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1412 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1413 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1416 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1417 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1418 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1419 help reduce flicker.
1420 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1421 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1422 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1423 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1424 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1425 Dennis Grevenstein).
1426 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1427 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1428 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1431 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1432 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1433 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1434 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1435 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1436 + improve error-checking in copywin
1437 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1438 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1439 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1440 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1441 matching capability names.
1442 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1443 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1444 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1447 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1448 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1449 are unused in the current driver model.
1450 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1452 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1453 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1454 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1455 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1458 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1459 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1461 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1462 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1463 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1464 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1465 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1468 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1469 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1470 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1474 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1476 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1477 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1479 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1480 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1481 wide-character which can be used.
1484 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1485 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1486 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1487 by Erwin Waterlander).
1488 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1489 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1490 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1491 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1492 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1493 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1497 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1498 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1499 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1500 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1501 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1502 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1503 + remove a few redundant checks.
1504 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1506 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1507 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1508 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1509 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1511 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1512 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1513 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1517 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1518 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1519 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1523 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1524 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1525 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1526 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1529 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1530 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1531 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1532 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1533 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1534 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1535 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1536 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1538 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1539 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1540 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1541 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1544 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1545 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1546 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1548 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1549 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1550 libraries or executables.
1553 + realign these related pages:
1558 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1559 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1560 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1561 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1562 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1563 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1564 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1565 based on testing with tack -TD
1566 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1567 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1570 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1572 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1573 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1574 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1577 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1581 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1582 (patch by Christian Persch).
1585 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1587 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1588 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1589 has used that for a while.
1590 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1591 for experimental use.
1592 + remove unused configure macros.
1593 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1594 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1595 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1596 + update config.guess, config.sub
1599 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1600 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1601 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1602 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1603 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1604 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1605 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1608 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1609 to help with MinGW port.
1612 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1614 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1617 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1620 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1621 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1622 might not be allocated.
1623 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1626 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1627 initial screen-sizes.
1628 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1629 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1633 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1634 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1638 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1639 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1640 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1642 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1643 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1646 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1647 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1648 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1649 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1650 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1651 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1652 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1656 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1657 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1658 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1659 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1660 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1661 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1662 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1663 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1667 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1668 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1669 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1670 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1671 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1672 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1675 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1679 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1681 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1683 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1684 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1685 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1686 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1687 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1688 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1691 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1693 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1694 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1695 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1697 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1698 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1701 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1702 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1703 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1706 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1707 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1709 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1710 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1712 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1713 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1716 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1718 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1719 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1720 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1721 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1722 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1723 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1726 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1727 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1728 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1729 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1730 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1731 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1732 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1733 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1734 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1736 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1737 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1738 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1739 Onno van der Linden).
1742 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1744 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1746 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1747 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1750 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1751 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1752 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1753 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1754 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1755 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1756 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1759 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1760 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1761 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1762 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1763 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1764 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1765 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1766 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1767 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1768 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1769 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1770 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1771 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1772 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1773 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1776 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1777 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1778 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1779 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1780 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1781 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1782 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1783 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1784 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1785 are interpreted as key definitions.
1786 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1787 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1791 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1792 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1793 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1794 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1795 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1796 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1797 as building-blocks -TD
1798 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1801 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1802 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1803 title is a status-line. -TD
1804 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1805 of ordering and overrides -TD
1806 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1807 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1808 used in that file -TD
1811 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1812 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1813 definable capabilities.
1814 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1815 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1816 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1817 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1818 embedded in the description.
1819 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1820 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1821 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1822 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1823 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1824 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1827 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1828 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1829 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1830 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1831 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1832 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1833 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1834 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1837 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1838 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1839 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1840 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1841 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1842 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1845 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1846 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1847 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1849 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1850 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1851 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1852 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1855 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1856 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1857 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1860 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1861 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1862 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1864 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1865 calls to setupterm().
1866 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1868 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1869 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1870 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1872 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1876 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1879 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1881 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1882 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1883 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1884 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1885 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1886 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1888 + update config.guess, config.sub
1891 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1892 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1893 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1894 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1895 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1896 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1897 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1898 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1899 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1902 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1903 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1904 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1905 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1906 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1907 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1908 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1909 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1910 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1911 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1912 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1913 Linux versus most other systems.
1916 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1920 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1921 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1922 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1923 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1924 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1925 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1926 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1927 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1928 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1929 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1930 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1931 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1932 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1933 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1936 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1938 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1940 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1941 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1942 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1943 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
1946 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1948 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1949 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1950 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1951 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1952 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1954 + regenerated html manpages.
1957 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1958 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1959 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1960 + change recommended regular expression library.
1961 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1962 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1965 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1966 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1967 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1968 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1969 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1970 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1971 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1975 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1976 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1978 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1981 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1983 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1985 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1986 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1987 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1989 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1991 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1994 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1995 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1996 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1997 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1999 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2000 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2001 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2004 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2005 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2007 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2010 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2012 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2014 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2016 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2017 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2018 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2019 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2020 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2021 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2022 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2025 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2026 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2028 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2029 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2030 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2031 database (cf: 20111001).
2034 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2035 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2036 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2038 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2039 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2041 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2042 in older FreeBSD machines.
2043 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2044 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2045 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2048 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2049 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2050 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2051 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2052 root's home directory.
2053 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2054 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2055 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2056 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2057 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2059 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2060 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2061 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2062 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2063 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2064 (report by Peter Kruse).
2067 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2068 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2070 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2072 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2073 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2074 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2077 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2078 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2079 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2080 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2081 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2082 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2085 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2086 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2087 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2088 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2089 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2092 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2093 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2094 input and output of termcap source.
2095 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2096 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2097 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2098 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2099 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2100 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2101 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2102 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2103 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2106 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2109 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2111 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2112 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2113 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2114 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2116 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2119 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2120 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2122 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2123 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2126 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2127 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2129 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2130 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2132 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2133 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2134 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2135 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2137 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2138 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2139 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2140 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2142 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2143 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2146 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2147 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2148 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2149 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2152 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2153 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2154 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2155 + add terminator entry -TD
2156 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2157 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2158 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2162 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2163 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2164 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2165 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2166 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2167 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2168 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2169 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2170 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2171 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2175 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2176 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2177 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2178 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2179 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2180 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2182 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2183 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2184 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2186 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2189 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2190 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2191 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2192 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2194 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2195 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2197 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2198 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2199 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2200 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2201 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2202 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2203 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2204 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2206 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2207 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2209 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2210 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2211 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2212 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2213 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2214 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2215 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2216 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2217 translating to termcap.
2218 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2219 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2222 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2223 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2224 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2225 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2226 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2227 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2229 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2230 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2231 regarding Schilling's test program):
2232 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2233 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2234 + use \040 rather than \s
2235 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2236 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2239 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2240 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2241 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2242 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2243 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2244 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2245 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2246 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2247 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2248 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2249 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2250 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2253 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2254 are not used in the $CC variable.
2255 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2256 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2257 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2258 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2259 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2260 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2263 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2264 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2268 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2269 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2270 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2271 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2272 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2274 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2275 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2277 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2280 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2281 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2284 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2285 + set default prefix to /usr.
2286 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2287 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2288 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2289 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2292 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2293 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2294 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2295 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2297 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2298 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2302 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2305 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2306 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2307 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2309 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2310 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2311 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2312 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2315 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2316 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2317 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2318 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2319 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2320 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2321 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2322 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2323 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2324 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2325 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2328 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2329 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2331 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2332 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2333 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2334 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2337 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2338 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2339 as different types on some Unix systems.
2340 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2341 function pointer passed to tputs().
2342 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2343 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2344 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2345 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2348 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2349 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2350 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2351 + update config.guess, config.sub
2354 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2356 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2357 some ncurses packages.
2358 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2359 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2360 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2362 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2365 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2366 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2367 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2368 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2369 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2370 needed for rpm script.
2371 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2372 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2373 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2376 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2377 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2378 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2379 that sample program.
2380 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2381 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2382 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2383 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2387 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2389 + regen Ada html documentation.
2390 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2391 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2393 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2395 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2396 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2397 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2398 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2399 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2400 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2402 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2403 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2405 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2406 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2409 + regen Ada html documentation.
2410 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2411 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2413 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2414 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2415 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2416 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2417 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2418 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2419 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2420 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2421 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2422 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2423 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2424 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2425 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2426 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2427 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2428 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2429 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2430 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2431 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2434 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2435 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2436 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2438 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2440 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2441 explain.txt is not found.
2444 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2445 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2446 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2447 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2448 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2450 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2453 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2454 + regenerated html manpages.
2455 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2457 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2458 a new install of hashed database.
2459 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2462 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2463 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2464 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2465 wide-character configuration.
2466 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2467 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2470 + regenerated html manpages.
2471 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2472 special case of trace configuration.
2475 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2476 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2477 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2478 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2479 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2483 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2484 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2485 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2486 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2487 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2489 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2490 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2493 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2494 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2495 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2496 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2497 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2498 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2499 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2500 file configuration if that is used.
2501 + update config.guess, config.sub
2504 + regenerated html manpages.
2505 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2507 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2508 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2511 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2512 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2515 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2516 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2517 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2520 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2522 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2523 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2524 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2525 wide-character configuration.
2526 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2527 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2528 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2531 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2532 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2533 version which works with termcap.
2534 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2535 (request by Sven Joachim).
2536 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2537 (report by Sven Joachim).
2540 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2541 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2542 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2545 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2547 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2548 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2551 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2553 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2554 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2555 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2556 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2557 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2558 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2562 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2563 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2564 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2566 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2569 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2571 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2575 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2577 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2578 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2579 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2580 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2581 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2582 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2583 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2584 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2585 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2586 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2587 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2588 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2591 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2592 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2593 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2594 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2595 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2596 external package "cindent".
2599 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2600 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2601 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2602 inconsistent printer-controls.
2603 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2604 form is available -TD
2605 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2607 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2609 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2610 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2611 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2612 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2613 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2615 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2616 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2620 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2621 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2622 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2623 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2624 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2626 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2629 + regenerated html manpages.
2630 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2631 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2632 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2635 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2637 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2638 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2639 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2640 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2644 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2645 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2648 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2649 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2650 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2651 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2652 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2653 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2654 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2658 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2659 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2660 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2661 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2662 by Tim van der Molen).
2663 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2664 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2665 library configuration.
2666 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2667 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2668 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2671 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2673 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2674 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2675 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2676 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2677 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2680 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2681 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2682 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2683 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2684 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2685 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2686 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2687 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2690 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2691 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2692 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2693 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2694 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2695 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2696 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2697 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2700 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2701 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2702 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2703 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2706 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2707 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2708 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2711 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2712 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2713 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2716 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2717 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2718 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2719 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2722 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2723 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2724 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2726 + update Ada95/configure.
2727 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2728 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2729 of updating LIBS variable.
2732 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2733 work with 64-bit compiles.
2734 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2738 + regenerated html documentation.
2739 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2741 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2742 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2743 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2744 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2747 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2748 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2750 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2751 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2752 build- and target-machines differ.
2753 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2754 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2756 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2757 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2760 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2761 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2762 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2763 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2764 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2765 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2766 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2767 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2768 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2769 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2770 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2771 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2772 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2773 found in predefined libraries.
2774 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2777 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2778 (patch by David Benjamin).
2779 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2780 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2781 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2782 may be defined by that route.
2785 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2786 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2787 the predefined include directories.
2788 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2789 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2790 where older versions would produce an error.
2793 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2794 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2795 terminfo to termcap strings
2796 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2797 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2798 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2799 directory was already added.
2800 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2801 directories (which will be ignored).
2804 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2805 + discard motion events
2806 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2807 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2808 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2809 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2812 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2813 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2814 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2815 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2816 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2817 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2818 extended-colors configuration.
2819 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2820 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2821 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2824 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2826 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2827 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2828 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2830 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2831 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2832 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2835 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2836 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2840 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2841 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2842 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2843 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2844 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2845 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2846 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2847 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2848 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2852 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2853 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2854 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2855 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2858 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2860 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2861 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2862 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2865 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2866 making those separately distributable.
2867 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2868 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2872 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2875 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2876 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2877 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2878 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2882 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2883 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2884 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2885 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2888 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2889 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2890 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2891 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2893 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2894 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2895 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2896 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2900 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2901 that line-drawing works.
2902 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2903 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2904 capabilities can run.
2905 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2909 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2910 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2911 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2912 before older in the list.
2913 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2914 + minor documentation cleanup.
2915 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2916 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2917 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2920 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2921 most common case of SGR 0.
2922 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2923 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2924 events remain, it will return ERR.
2927 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2928 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2929 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2930 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2931 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2934 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2935 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2936 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2939 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2940 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2941 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2942 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2943 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2944 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2947 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2948 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2949 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2950 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2951 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2953 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2955 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2957 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2958 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2959 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2961 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2962 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2965 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2966 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2968 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2969 writing terminfo entries.
2970 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2971 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2972 by Nicholas Marriott).
2975 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2977 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2978 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2982 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2983 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2984 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2985 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2986 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2990 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2991 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2992 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2993 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2996 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2997 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2998 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2999 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3000 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3001 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3002 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3005 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3006 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3007 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3008 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3009 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3010 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3011 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3012 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3013 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3014 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3015 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3018 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3019 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3020 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3021 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3024 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3025 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3028 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3029 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3030 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3034 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3035 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3036 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3037 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3038 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3040 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3041 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3044 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3045 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3046 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3047 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3048 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3049 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3051 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3052 library (some work remains for forms library).
3055 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3056 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3057 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3058 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3060 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3061 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3062 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3063 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3066 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3067 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3070 test/test_addchstr.c
3071 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3072 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3073 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3074 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3077 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3079 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3080 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3081 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3082 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3086 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3087 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3088 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3089 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3092 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3093 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3094 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3097 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3100 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3101 broken in 20090510 merging.
3102 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3103 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3104 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3105 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3106 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3107 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3108 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3109 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3111 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3114 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3115 implementation details of hash function.
3118 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3119 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3120 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3123 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3124 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3125 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3126 test/demo_terminfo.c
3127 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3128 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3131 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3132 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3136 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3139 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3141 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3142 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3143 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3144 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3145 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3147 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3148 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3149 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3152 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3153 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3154 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3157 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3158 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3160 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3163 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3164 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3166 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3167 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3171 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3172 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3173 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3176 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3179 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3182 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3183 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3184 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3185 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3188 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3191 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3192 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3193 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3194 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3198 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3201 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3202 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3205 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3208 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3212 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3215 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3216 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3217 part of the form library.
3220 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3221 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3224 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3225 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3226 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3227 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3228 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3229 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3230 a temporary variable.
3231 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3232 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3233 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3234 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3235 with Charles Wilson).
3236 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3237 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3238 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3239 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3240 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3241 digits, after the final '.').
3242 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3243 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3244 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3245 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3246 from 20090321 changes.
3247 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3248 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3249 termlib) is to be linked.
3250 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3251 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3254 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3255 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3256 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3257 (report by Charles Wilson).
3258 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3259 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3260 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3261 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3262 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
3265 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
3266 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
3267 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
3268 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
3269 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
3271 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3272 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
3273 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
3274 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
3275 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
3276 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
3277 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
3278 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
3281 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3282 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
3283 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
3286 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3289 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
3291 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3292 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
3293 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
3294 some internals work is needed to complete these).
3295 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
3298 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
3299 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
3300 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
3301 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3302 + make it work with $DESTDIR
3303 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3306 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3307 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3309 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3310 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3311 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3314 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3315 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3316 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3317 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3318 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3319 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3320 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3321 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3322 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3325 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3326 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3328 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3330 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3331 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3334 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3336 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3337 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3338 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3339 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3342 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3343 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3344 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3346 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3347 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3350 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3351 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3352 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3353 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3354 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3355 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3357 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3358 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3360 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3361 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3364 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3365 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3366 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3369 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3370 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3371 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3373 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3374 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3377 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3379 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3380 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3381 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3383 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3384 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3385 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3386 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3387 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3388 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3390 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3391 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3394 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3395 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3396 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3397 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3398 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3399 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3400 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3401 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3402 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3403 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3404 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3407 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3408 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3409 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3410 passing color or video attributes.
3411 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3412 display meta-characters.
3413 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3414 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3415 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3416 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3420 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3421 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3422 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3424 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3427 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3429 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3430 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3432 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3435 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3436 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3437 does not work well on that platform).
3438 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3441 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3442 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3443 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3445 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3446 --disable-database is used.
3447 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3448 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3449 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3450 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3454 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3455 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3456 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3457 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3458 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3459 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3460 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3464 + regenerated html documentation.
3465 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3466 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3467 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3468 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3469 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3470 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3471 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3472 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3475 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3476 works for C/C++ parts).
3477 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3478 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3481 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3482 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3483 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3484 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3485 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3486 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3487 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3488 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3489 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3491 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3492 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3493 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3494 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3495 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3496 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3499 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3500 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3503 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3504 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3505 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3506 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3507 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3508 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3511 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3512 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3515 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3519 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3520 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3521 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3522 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3524 + update test/configure script.
3525 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3526 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3527 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3528 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3529 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3532 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3533 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3535 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3537 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3538 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3539 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3540 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3541 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3542 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3543 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3544 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3545 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3548 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3549 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3550 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3551 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3552 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3553 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3554 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3555 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3556 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3557 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3558 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3562 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3563 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3564 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3565 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3566 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3568 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3569 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3570 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3571 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3572 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3575 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3576 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3577 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3578 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3579 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3580 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3581 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3584 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3588 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3591 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3594 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3595 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3597 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3598 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3599 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3603 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3604 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3606 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3607 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3608 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3609 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3612 + regenerated html documentation.
3613 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3614 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3615 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3616 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3617 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3620 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3621 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3622 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3626 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3627 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3628 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3629 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3630 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3631 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3634 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3635 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3637 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3638 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3639 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3640 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3641 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3642 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3643 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3644 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3645 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3648 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3649 screen which must be updated.
3650 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3651 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3652 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3656 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3657 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3659 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3660 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3661 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3662 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3665 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3666 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3667 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3669 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3673 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3674 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3675 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3678 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3679 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3680 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3681 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3684 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3685 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3687 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3689 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3692 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3693 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3694 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3695 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3696 python-dev2 mailing list).
3699 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3700 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3701 are not associated with a particular screen.
3702 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3703 stdscr to the callback function.
3704 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3705 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3706 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3707 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3708 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3709 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3710 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3714 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3715 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3716 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3717 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3719 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3720 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3721 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3722 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3723 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3726 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3727 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3728 that the 'F' accepts.
3729 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3730 are working concurrently.
3731 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3735 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3736 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3737 _nc_free_and_exit().
3740 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3741 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3744 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3745 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3748 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3749 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3750 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3751 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3754 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3755 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3756 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3757 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3758 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3759 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3761 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3762 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3766 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3767 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3768 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3771 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3772 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3773 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3776 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3777 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3778 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3782 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3783 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3784 "link_test" builds properly.
3785 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3786 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3787 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3788 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3789 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3790 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3791 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3793 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3796 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3800 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3801 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3804 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3806 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3807 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3808 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3811 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3812 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3813 pierre4d2 comments).
3814 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3815 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3816 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3817 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3821 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3822 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3823 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3824 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3825 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3827 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3828 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3829 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3833 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3834 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3837 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3839 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3841 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3845 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3846 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3848 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3849 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3850 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3851 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3852 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3854 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3855 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3858 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3859 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3860 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3861 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3864 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3865 calls within the ncurses library.
3866 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3868 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3869 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3870 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3872 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3873 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3874 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3875 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3876 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3879 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3880 for threaded library (incomplete).
3881 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3882 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3886 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3887 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3888 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3889 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3890 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3891 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3892 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3893 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3894 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3897 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3899 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3900 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3903 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3904 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3905 "\0" followed by a digit.
3906 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3907 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3908 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3909 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3910 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3911 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3912 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3913 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3914 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3917 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3918 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3919 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3920 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3921 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3923 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3924 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3925 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3929 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3930 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3931 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3932 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3933 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3934 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3935 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3936 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3937 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3940 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3941 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3942 + add test/test_getstr.c
3943 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3944 + add test/test_instr.c
3947 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3948 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3949 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3953 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3954 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3955 ".log" to the name and try again.
3956 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3957 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3958 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3959 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3960 --disable-echo option is used.
3961 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3962 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3963 + update config.guess, config.sub
3966 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3967 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3968 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3972 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3973 problems with multi-column characters.
3974 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3975 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3976 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3977 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3978 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3979 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3980 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3983 + add test/demo_panels.c
3984 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3987 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3989 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3990 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3993 + add test/key_name.c
3994 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3995 + update test/configure
3996 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3997 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3998 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
4002 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
4003 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
4004 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
4005 illustrate how to use mvcur().
4006 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
4007 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
4008 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4009 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4010 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
4013 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
4014 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
4015 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
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