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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 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
50 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
51 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
52 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
53 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
54 > fixes based on Coverity report:
55 + remove a few redundant checks.
56 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
58 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
59 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
60 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
61 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
63 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
64 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
65 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
69 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
70 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
71 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
75 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
76 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
77 > fixes based on Coverity report:
78 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
81 > fixes based on Coverity report:
82 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
83 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
84 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
85 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
86 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
87 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
88 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
90 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
91 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
92 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
93 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
96 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
97 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
98 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
100 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
101 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
102 libraries or executables.
105 + realign these related pages:
110 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
111 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
112 (report by Reuben Thomas).
113 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
114 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
115 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
116 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
117 based on testing with tack -TD
118 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
119 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
122 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
124 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
125 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
126 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
129 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
133 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
134 (patch by Christian Persch).
137 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
139 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
140 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
141 has used that for a while.
142 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
143 for experimental use.
144 + remove unused configure macros.
145 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
146 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
147 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
148 + update config.guess, config.sub
151 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
152 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
153 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
154 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
155 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
156 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
157 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
160 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
161 to help with MinGW port.
164 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
166 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
169 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
172 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
173 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
174 might not be allocated.
175 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
178 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
179 initial screen-sizes.
180 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
181 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
185 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
186 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
190 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
191 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
192 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
194 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
195 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
198 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
199 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
200 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
201 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
202 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
203 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
204 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
208 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
209 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
210 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
211 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
212 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
213 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
214 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
215 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
219 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
220 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
221 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
222 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
223 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
224 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
227 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
231 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
233 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
235 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
236 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
237 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
238 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
239 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
240 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
243 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
245 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
246 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
247 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
249 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
250 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
253 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
254 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
255 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
258 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
259 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
261 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
262 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
264 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
265 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
268 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
270 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
271 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
272 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
273 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
274 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
275 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
278 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
279 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
280 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
281 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
282 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
283 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
284 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
285 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
286 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
288 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
289 analysis by Martin Husemann).
290 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
291 Onno van der Linden).
294 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
296 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
298 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
299 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
302 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
303 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
304 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
305 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
306 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
307 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
308 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
311 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
312 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
313 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
314 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
315 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
316 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
317 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
318 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
319 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
320 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
321 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
322 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
323 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
324 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
325 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
328 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
329 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
330 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
331 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
332 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
333 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
334 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
335 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
336 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
337 are interpreted as key definitions.
338 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
339 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
343 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
344 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
345 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
346 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
347 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
348 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
349 as building-blocks -TD
350 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
353 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
354 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
355 title is a status-line. -TD
356 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
357 of ordering and overrides -TD
358 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
359 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
360 used in that file -TD
363 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
364 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
365 definable capabilities.
366 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
367 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
368 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
369 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
370 embedded in the description.
371 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
372 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
373 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
374 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
375 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
376 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
379 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
380 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
381 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
382 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
384 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
385 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
386 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
389 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
390 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
391 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
392 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
393 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
394 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
397 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
398 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
399 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
401 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
402 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
403 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
404 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
407 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
408 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
409 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
412 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
413 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
414 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
416 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
417 calls to setupterm().
418 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
420 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
421 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
422 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
424 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
428 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
431 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
433 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
434 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
435 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
436 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
437 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
438 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
440 + update config.guess, config.sub
443 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
444 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
445 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
446 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
447 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
448 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
449 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
450 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
451 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
454 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
455 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
456 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
457 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
458 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
459 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
460 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
461 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
462 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
463 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
464 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
465 Linux versus most other systems.
468 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
472 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
473 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
474 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
475 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
476 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
477 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
478 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
479 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
480 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
481 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
482 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
483 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
484 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
485 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
488 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
490 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
492 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
493 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
494 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
495 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
498 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
500 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
501 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
502 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
503 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
504 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
506 + regenerated html manpages.
509 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
510 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
511 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
512 + change recommended regular expression library.
513 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
514 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
517 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
518 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
519 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
520 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
521 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
522 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
523 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
527 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
528 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
530 + add putty-sco entry -TD
533 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
535 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
537 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
538 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
539 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
541 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
543 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
546 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
547 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
548 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
549 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
551 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
552 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
553 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
556 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
557 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
559 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
562 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
564 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
566 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
568 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
569 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
570 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
571 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
572 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
573 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
574 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
577 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
578 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
580 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
581 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
582 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
583 database (cf: 20111001).
586 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
587 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
588 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
590 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
591 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
593 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
594 in older FreeBSD machines.
595 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
596 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
597 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
600 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
601 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
602 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
603 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
604 root's home directory.
605 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
606 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
607 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
608 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
609 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
611 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
612 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
613 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
614 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
615 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
616 (report by Peter Kruse).
619 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
620 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
622 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
624 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
625 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
626 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
629 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
630 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
631 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
632 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
633 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
634 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
637 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
638 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
639 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
640 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
641 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
644 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
645 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
646 input and output of termcap source.
647 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
648 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
649 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
650 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
651 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
652 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
653 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
654 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
655 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
658 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
661 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
663 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
664 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
665 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
666 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
668 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
671 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
672 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
674 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
675 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
678 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
679 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
681 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
682 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
684 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
685 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
686 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
687 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
689 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
690 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
691 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
692 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
694 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
695 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
698 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
699 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
700 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
701 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
704 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
705 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
706 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
707 + add terminator entry -TD
708 + add simpleterm entry -TD
709 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
710 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
714 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
715 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
716 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
717 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
718 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
719 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
720 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
721 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
722 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
723 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
727 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
728 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
729 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
730 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
731 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
732 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
734 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
735 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
736 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
738 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
741 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
742 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
743 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
744 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
746 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
747 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
749 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
750 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
751 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
752 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
753 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
754 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
755 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
756 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
758 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
759 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
761 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
762 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
763 tctest (cf: 19991211).
764 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
765 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
766 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
767 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
768 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
769 translating to termcap.
770 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
771 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
774 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
775 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
776 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
777 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
778 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
779 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
781 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
782 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
783 regarding Schilling's test program):
784 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
785 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
786 + use \040 rather than \s
787 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
788 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
791 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
792 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
793 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
794 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
795 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
796 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
797 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
798 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
799 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
800 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
801 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
802 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
805 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
806 are not used in the $CC variable.
807 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
808 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
809 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
810 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
811 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
812 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
815 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
816 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
820 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
821 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
822 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
823 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
824 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
826 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
827 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
829 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
832 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
833 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
836 + fixes for MirBSD port:
837 + set default prefix to /usr.
838 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
839 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
840 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
841 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
844 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
845 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
846 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
847 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
849 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
850 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
854 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
857 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
858 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
859 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
861 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
862 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
863 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
864 help work around weak-symbol issues.
867 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
868 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
869 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
870 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
871 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
872 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
873 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
874 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
875 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
876 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
877 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
880 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
881 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
883 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
884 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
885 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
886 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
889 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
890 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
891 as different types on some Unix systems.
892 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
893 function pointer passed to tputs().
894 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
895 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
896 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
897 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
900 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
901 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
902 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
903 + update config.guess, config.sub
906 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
908 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
909 some ncurses packages.
910 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
911 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
912 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
914 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
917 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
918 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
919 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
920 the in-tree build of sample programs.
921 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
922 needed for rpm script.
923 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
924 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
925 options if building a shared library with gnat.
928 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
929 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
930 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
932 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
933 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
934 which were added in 5.7 and later.
935 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
939 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
941 + regen Ada html documentation.
942 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
943 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
945 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
947 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
948 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
949 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
950 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
951 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
952 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
954 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
955 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
957 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
958 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
961 + regen Ada html documentation.
962 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
963 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
965 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
966 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
967 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
968 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
969 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
970 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
971 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
972 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
973 thread in comp.lang.ada).
974 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
975 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
976 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
977 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
978 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
979 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
980 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
981 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
982 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
983 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
986 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
987 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
988 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
990 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
992 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
993 explain.txt is not found.
996 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
997 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
998 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
999 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1000 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1002 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1005 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1006 + regenerated html manpages.
1007 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1009 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1010 a new install of hashed database.
1011 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1014 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1015 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1016 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1017 wide-character configuration.
1018 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1019 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1022 + regenerated html manpages.
1023 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1024 special case of trace configuration.
1027 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1028 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1029 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1030 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1031 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1035 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1036 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1037 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1038 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1039 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1041 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1042 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1045 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1046 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1047 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1048 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1049 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1050 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1051 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1052 file configuration if that is used.
1053 + update config.guess, config.sub
1056 + regenerated html manpages.
1057 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1059 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1060 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1063 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1064 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1067 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1068 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1069 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1072 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1074 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1075 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1076 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1077 wide-character configuration.
1078 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1079 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1080 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1083 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1084 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1085 version which works with termcap.
1086 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1087 (request by Sven Joachim).
1088 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1089 (report by Sven Joachim).
1092 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1093 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1094 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1097 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1099 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1100 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1103 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1105 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1106 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1107 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1108 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1109 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1110 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1114 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1115 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1116 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1118 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1121 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1123 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1127 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1129 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1130 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1131 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1132 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1133 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1134 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1135 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1136 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1137 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1138 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1139 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1140 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1143 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1144 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1145 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1146 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1147 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1148 external package "cindent".
1151 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1152 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1153 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1154 inconsistent printer-controls.
1155 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1156 form is available -TD
1157 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1159 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1161 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1162 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1163 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1164 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1165 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1167 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1168 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1172 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1173 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1174 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1175 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1176 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1178 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1181 + regenerated html manpages.
1182 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1183 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1184 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1187 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1189 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1190 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1191 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1192 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1196 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1197 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1200 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1201 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1202 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1203 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1204 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1205 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1206 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1210 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1211 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1212 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1213 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1214 by Tim van der Molen).
1215 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1216 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1217 library configuration.
1218 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1219 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1220 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1223 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1225 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1226 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1227 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1228 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1229 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1232 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1233 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1234 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1235 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1236 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1237 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1238 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1239 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1242 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1243 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1244 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1245 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1246 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1247 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1248 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1249 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1252 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1253 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1254 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1255 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1258 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1259 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1260 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1263 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1264 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1265 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1268 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1269 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1270 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1271 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1274 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1275 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1276 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1278 + update Ada95/configure.
1279 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1280 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1281 of updating LIBS variable.
1284 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1285 work with 64-bit compiles.
1286 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1290 + regenerated html documentation.
1291 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1293 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1294 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1295 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1296 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1299 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1300 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1302 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1303 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1304 build- and target-machines differ.
1305 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1306 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1308 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1309 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1312 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1313 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1314 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1315 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1316 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1317 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1318 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1319 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1320 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1321 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1322 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1323 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1324 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1325 found in predefined libraries.
1326 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1329 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1330 (patch by David Benjamin).
1331 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1332 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1333 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1334 may be defined by that route.
1337 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1338 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1339 the predefined include directories.
1340 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1341 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1342 where older versions would produce an error.
1345 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1346 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1347 terminfo to termcap strings
1348 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1349 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1350 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1351 directory was already added.
1352 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1353 directories (which will be ignored).
1356 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1357 + discard motion events
1358 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1359 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1360 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1361 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1364 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1365 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1366 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1367 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1368 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1369 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1370 extended-colors configuration.
1371 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1372 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1373 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1376 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1378 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1379 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1380 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1382 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1383 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1384 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1387 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1388 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1392 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1393 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1394 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1395 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1396 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1397 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1398 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1399 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1400 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1404 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1405 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1406 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1407 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1410 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1412 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1413 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1414 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1417 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1418 making those separately distributable.
1419 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1420 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1424 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1427 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1428 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1429 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1430 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1434 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1435 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1436 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1437 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1440 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1441 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1442 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1443 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1445 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1446 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1447 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1448 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1452 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1453 that line-drawing works.
1454 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1455 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1456 capabilities can run.
1457 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1461 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1462 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1463 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1464 before older in the list.
1465 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1466 + minor documentation cleanup.
1467 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1468 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1469 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1472 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1473 most common case of SGR 0.
1474 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1475 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1476 events remain, it will return ERR.
1479 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1480 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1481 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1482 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1483 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1486 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1487 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1488 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1491 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1492 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1493 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1494 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1495 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1496 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1499 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1500 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1501 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1502 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1503 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1505 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1507 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1509 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1510 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1511 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1513 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1514 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1517 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1518 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1520 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1521 writing terminfo entries.
1522 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1523 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1524 by Nicholas Marriott).
1527 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1529 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1530 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1534 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1535 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1536 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1537 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1538 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1542 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1543 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1544 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1545 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1548 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1549 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1550 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1551 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1552 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1553 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1554 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1557 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1558 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1559 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1560 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1561 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1562 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1563 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1564 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1565 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1566 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1567 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1570 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1571 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1572 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1573 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1576 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1577 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1580 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1581 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1582 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1586 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1587 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1588 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1589 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1590 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1592 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1593 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1596 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1597 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1598 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1599 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1600 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1601 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1603 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1604 library (some work remains for forms library).
1607 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1608 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1609 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1610 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1612 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1613 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1614 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1615 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1618 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1619 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1622 test/test_addchstr.c
1623 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1624 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1625 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1626 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1629 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1631 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1632 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1633 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1634 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1638 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1639 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1640 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1641 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1644 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1645 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1646 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1649 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1652 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1653 broken in 20090509 merging.
1654 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1655 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1656 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1657 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1658 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1659 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1660 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1661 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1663 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1666 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1667 implementation details of hash function.
1670 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1671 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1672 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1675 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1676 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1677 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1678 test/demo_terminfo.c
1679 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1680 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1683 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1684 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1688 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1691 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1693 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1694 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1695 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1696 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1697 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1699 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1700 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1701 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1704 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1705 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1706 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1709 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1710 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1712 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1715 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1716 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1718 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1719 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1723 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1724 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1725 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1728 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1731 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1734 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1735 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1736 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1737 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1740 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1743 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1744 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1745 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1746 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1750 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1753 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1754 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1757 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1760 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1764 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1767 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1768 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1769 part of the form library.
1772 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1773 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
1776 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
1777 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
1778 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
1779 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
1780 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
1781 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
1782 a temporary variable.
1783 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
1784 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
1785 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
1786 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
1787 with Charles Wilson).
1788 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
1789 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
1790 > patches by Charles Wilson:
1791 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
1792 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
1793 digits, after the final '.').
1794 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
1795 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
1796 using that in the libtool link-commands.
1797 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
1798 from 2009031 changes.
1799 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
1800 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
1801 termlib) is to be linked.
1802 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
1803 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
1806 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
1807 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1808 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
1809 (report by Charles Wilson).
1810 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
1811 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1812 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
1813 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
1814 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
1817 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
1818 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
1819 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
1820 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
1821 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
1823 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1824 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
1825 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
1826 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
1827 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
1828 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
1829 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
1830 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
1833 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1834 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
1835 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
1838 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1841 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
1843 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1844 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
1845 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
1846 some internals work is needed to complete these).
1847 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
1850 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
1851 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
1852 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
1853 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1854 + make it work with $DESTDIR
1855 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
1858 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
1859 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
1861 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
1862 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
1863 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
1866 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
1867 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
1868 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
1869 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
1870 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
1871 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
1872 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
1873 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
1874 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
1877 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
1878 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
1880 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
1882 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
1883 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
1886 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
1888 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
1889 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
1890 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
1891 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1894 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
1895 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
1896 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
1898 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
1899 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
1902 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
1903 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
1904 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
1905 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
1906 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
1907 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
1909 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
1910 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
1912 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1913 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1916 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
1917 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
1918 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
1921 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
1922 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
1923 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
1925 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
1926 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
1929 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
1931 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
1932 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
1933 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
1935 + fixes from NetBSD port at
1936 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
1937 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
1938 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
1939 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
1940 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
1942 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
1943 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
1946 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
1947 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
1948 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
1949 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
1950 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
1951 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
1952 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
1953 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
1954 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
1955 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
1956 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
1959 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
1960 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
1961 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
1962 passing color or video attributes.
1963 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
1964 display meta-characters.
1965 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
1966 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
1967 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
1968 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
1972 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
1973 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1974 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
1976 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
1979 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
1981 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
1982 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
1984 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1987 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
1988 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
1989 does not work well on that platform).
1990 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
1993 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
1994 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
1995 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
1997 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
1998 --disable-database is used.
1999 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2000 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2001 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2002 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2006 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2007 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2008 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2009 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2010 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2011 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2012 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2016 + regenerated html documentation.
2017 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2018 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2019 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2020 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2021 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2022 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2023 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2024 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2027 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2028 works for C/C++ parts).
2029 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2030 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2033 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2034 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2035 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2036 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2037 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2038 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2039 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2040 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2041 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2043 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2044 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2045 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2046 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2047 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2048 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2051 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2052 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2055 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2056 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2057 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2058 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2059 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2060 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2063 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2064 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2067 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2071 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2072 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2073 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2074 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2076 + update test/configure script.
2077 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2078 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2079 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2080 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2081 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2084 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2085 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2087 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2089 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2090 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2091 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2092 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2093 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2094 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2095 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2096 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2097 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2100 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2101 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2102 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2103 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2104 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2105 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2106 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2107 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2108 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2109 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2110 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2114 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2115 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2116 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2117 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2118 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2120 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2121 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2122 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2123 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2124 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2127 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2128 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2129 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2130 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2131 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2132 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2133 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2136 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2140 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2143 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2146 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2147 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2149 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2150 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2151 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2155 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2156 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2158 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2159 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2160 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2161 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2164 + regenerated html documentation.
2165 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2166 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2167 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2168 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2169 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2172 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2173 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2174 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2178 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2179 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2180 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2181 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2182 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2183 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2186 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2187 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2189 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2190 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2191 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2192 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2193 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2194 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2195 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2196 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2197 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2200 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2201 screen which must be updated.
2202 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2203 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2204 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2208 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2209 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2211 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2212 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2213 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2214 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2217 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2218 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2219 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2221 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2225 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2226 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2227 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2230 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2231 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2232 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2233 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2236 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2237 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2239 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2241 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2244 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2245 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2246 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2247 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2248 python-dev2 mailing list).
2251 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2252 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2253 are not associated with a particular screen.
2254 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2255 stdscr to the callback function.
2256 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2257 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2258 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2259 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2260 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2261 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2262 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2266 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2267 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2268 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2269 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2271 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2272 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2273 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2274 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2275 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2278 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2279 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2280 that the 'F' accepts.
2281 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2282 are working concurrently.
2283 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2287 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2288 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2289 _nc_free_and_exit().
2292 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2293 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2296 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2297 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2300 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2301 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2302 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2303 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2306 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2307 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2308 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2309 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2310 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2311 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2313 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2314 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2318 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2319 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2320 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2323 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2324 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2325 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2328 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2329 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2330 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2334 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2335 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2336 "link_test" builds properly.
2337 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2338 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2339 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2340 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2341 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2342 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2343 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2345 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2348 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2352 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2353 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2356 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2358 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2359 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2360 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2363 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2364 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2365 pierre4d2 comments).
2366 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2367 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2368 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2369 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2373 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2374 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2375 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2376 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2377 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2379 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2380 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2381 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2385 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2386 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2389 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2391 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2393 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2397 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2398 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2400 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2401 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2402 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
2403 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2404 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2406 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2407 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2410 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2411 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2412 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2413 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2416 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2417 calls within the ncurses library.
2418 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2420 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2421 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2422 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2424 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2425 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2426 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2427 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2428 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2431 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2432 for threaded library (incomplete).
2433 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2434 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2438 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2439 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2440 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2441 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2442 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2443 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2444 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2445 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2446 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2449 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2451 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2452 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2455 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2456 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2457 "\0" followed by a digit.
2458 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2459 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2460 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2461 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2462 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2463 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2464 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2465 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2466 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2469 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2470 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2471 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2472 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2473 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2475 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2476 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2477 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2481 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2482 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2483 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2484 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2485 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2486 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2487 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2488 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2489 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2492 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2493 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2494 + add test/test_getstr.c
2495 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2496 + add test/test_instr.c
2499 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2500 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2501 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2505 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2506 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2507 ".log" to the name and try again.
2508 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2509 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2510 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2511 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2512 --disable-echo option is used.
2513 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2514 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
2515 + update config.guess, config.sub
2518 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2519 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2520 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2524 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2525 problems with multi-column characters.
2526 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2527 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2528 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2529 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2530 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2531 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2532 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2535 + add test/demo_panels.c
2536 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2539 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2541 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2542 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2545 + add test/key_name.c
2546 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2547 + update test/configure
2548 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2549 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2550 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2554 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2555 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2556 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2557 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2558 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2559 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2560 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2561 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2562 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2565 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2566 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2567 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2568 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2569 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2570 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2573 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2574 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2576 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2577 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2578 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2579 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2582 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2583 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2584 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2585 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2587 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2589 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2590 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2591 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2592 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2593 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2596 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2597 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2599 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2600 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2601 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2602 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2603 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2604 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2605 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2606 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2607 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2608 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2609 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2612 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2613 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2614 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2615 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2616 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2617 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2618 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2621 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2622 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2623 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2624 Ada95 tree is not built.
2627 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2628 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2629 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2630 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2631 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2632 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2634 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2635 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2636 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2637 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2638 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2639 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2640 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2641 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2642 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2643 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2644 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2645 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2646 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2647 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2648 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2649 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2650 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2651 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2652 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2654 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2655 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2656 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2657 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2658 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2659 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2660 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2661 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2662 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2665 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2666 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2667 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2668 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2669 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2670 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2671 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2672 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2676 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2677 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2678 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2679 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2680 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2684 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2685 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2686 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2687 in the configure script to an error.
2688 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2689 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2690 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2691 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2692 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2694 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2695 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2698 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2699 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2702 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2703 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2705 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2706 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2707 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2708 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2709 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2710 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2711 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2712 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2715 + regenerated html documentation.
2716 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2717 opaque in selected configurations.
2718 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2719 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2720 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2721 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2722 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2723 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2724 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2725 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2726 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2727 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2728 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2730 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2731 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2734 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2735 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2736 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2737 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2738 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2739 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2740 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2741 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2742 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2743 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2744 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2745 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2748 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2750 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2751 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2752 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2754 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2755 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2756 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2757 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2758 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2759 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2760 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2761 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2763 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2764 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2767 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2768 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2770 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
2772 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
2773 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
2774 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
2777 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
2778 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
2779 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
2780 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
2782 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
2783 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
2784 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
2785 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
2786 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
2787 no longer relies on it.
2788 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
2789 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
2790 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
2793 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
2794 (report by Rong-En Fan).
2797 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
2798 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
2799 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
2800 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
2801 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2802 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2803 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
2804 its license consistent with ncurses.
2805 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
2806 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
2807 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
2810 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
2811 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
2812 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
2813 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
2817 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
2818 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
2819 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
2821 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
2822 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2825 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
2826 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
2827 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2830 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2831 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2832 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
2833 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
2834 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
2835 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
2836 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
2837 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
2838 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
2839 to manpages as needed.
2840 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
2841 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
2844 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
2845 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
2846 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
2847 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
2848 + update config.guess, config.sub
2850 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2853 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
2854 definitions in <wchar.h>.
2855 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
2856 correct nor portable.
2857 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
2859 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
2860 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
2864 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
2865 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
2866 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
2867 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
2868 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
2869 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
2872 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
2873 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
2874 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
2875 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
2877 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
2878 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
2879 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
2880 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
2881 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
2882 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
2883 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
2884 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
2887 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
2888 database configuration.
2889 + updates for test/configure script.
2890 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
2891 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
2893 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
2894 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
2895 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
2896 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
2898 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
2899 _nc_printf_string().
2900 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
2901 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
2904 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
2905 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
2907 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
2908 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
2912 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
2913 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
2916 + add test/echochar.c
2917 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
2918 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
2921 + add AUTHORS file -TD
2922 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
2923 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
2924 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
2927 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
2928 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
2929 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
2931 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
2932 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
2933 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
2934 for rpath support in versions past 3.
2935 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
2936 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
2937 Ralf S Engelschall).
2938 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
2939 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
2940 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
2941 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
2944 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
2945 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
2946 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
2949 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
2950 and status line (Alain Bench).
2951 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
2952 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
2953 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
2954 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
2957 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
2958 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
2959 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
2960 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
2961 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
2964 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
2965 + updated html documentation.
2966 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
2967 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
2970 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
2971 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
2972 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2973 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
2974 option (from lynx changes) -TD
2975 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
2976 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
2977 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
2978 by report by Christopher Parker).
2982 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
2983 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
2984 since it does not really do this -TD
2987 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
2988 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
2989 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
2990 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2993 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
2994 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
2995 embedded into a termcap description.
2996 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
2997 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
2998 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
2999 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
3001 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3004 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3006 + add test/foldkeys.c
3009 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3010 source output (Debian #378783).
3011 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3012 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3013 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
3014 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3015 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3016 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
3019 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3020 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3021 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3024 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3025 or as a text file if those are not available.
3026 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3027 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3028 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3031 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3032 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3033 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3034 + update config.guess, config.sub
3037 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3038 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3039 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3041 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3042 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3044 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3045 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3046 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3047 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3048 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3049 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3051 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3052 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3053 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3054 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3057 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3058 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3062 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3063 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3065 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3066 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3067 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3068 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3069 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3070 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3073 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3074 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3075 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3076 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3077 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3078 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3079 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3080 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3081 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3082 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3085 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3086 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3087 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3088 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3090 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3093 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3094 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3095 + minor copyright fixes.
3096 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3099 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3100 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3101 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3102 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3103 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3104 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3105 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3106 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3108 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3109 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3110 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3111 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3113 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3116 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3117 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3119 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3120 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3121 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3122 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3124 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3125 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3126 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3127 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3130 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3131 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3132 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3133 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3134 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3135 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3136 + update config.guess, config.sub
3137 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3138 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3139 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3140 function is broken in that implementation.
3143 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3144 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3147 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3148 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3150 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3151 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3153 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3154 reported to implement this feature -TD
3157 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3158 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3161 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3162 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3163 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3164 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3165 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3166 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3167 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3168 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3171 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3172 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3174 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3175 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3178 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3179 (report by Alain Bench).
3180 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3181 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3182 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3183 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3185 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3186 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3187 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3191 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3192 and/or video attributes.
3193 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3194 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3197 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3200 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3201 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3202 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3203 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3204 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3205 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3206 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3207 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3208 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3211 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3212 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3213 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3216 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3217 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3218 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3219 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3220 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3221 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3222 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3223 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3224 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3225 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3228 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3229 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3230 rather than delayed.
3231 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3233 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3234 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3235 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3238 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3240 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3241 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3244 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3245 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3248 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3249 + suppress line-drawing
3250 + implement max_attributes
3252 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3253 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3257 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3258 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3260 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3262 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3263 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3264 etc., when allocating screens.
3267 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3268 this in test/filter.c
3269 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3273 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3274 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3275 + add extension nofilter().
3276 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3277 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3278 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3279 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3280 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3283 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3284 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3285 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3286 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3287 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3288 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3289 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3290 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3291 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3293 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3294 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3295 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3297 + update config.guess and config.sub
3300 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3301 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3302 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3304 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3305 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3306 that was never built in that directory).
3307 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3310 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3312 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3313 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3317 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3318 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3319 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3320 effect of the different functions.
3321 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3325 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3326 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3328 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3332 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3333 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3334 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3336 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3337 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3341 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3342 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3343 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3345 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3346 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3347 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3350 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3351 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3352 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3355 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3356 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3357 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3359 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3360 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3363 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3364 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3365 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3366 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3367 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3368 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3369 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3372 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3373 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3374 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3376 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3377 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3378 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3379 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3380 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3382 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3385 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3388 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3389 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3393 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3394 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3395 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3396 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3397 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3399 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3400 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3403 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3404 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3405 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3406 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3407 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3408 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3409 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3410 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3411 default if it is used.
3412 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3413 --with-abi-version option was used.
3414 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3415 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3416 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3419 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3420 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3421 handlers (Debian #326709).
3424 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3425 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3427 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3430 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3431 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3432 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3433 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3435 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3436 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3439 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3440 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3441 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3442 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3443 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3444 + update llib-l* files.
3447 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3448 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3449 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3450 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3454 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3455 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3456 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3457 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3458 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3459 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3460 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3461 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3462 Konstantin Andreev).
3465 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3466 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3467 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3468 several related cases -TD
3469 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3470 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3472 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3473 resets line-drawing.
3476 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
3478 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
3479 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
3480 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
3481 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
3482 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
3483 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
3486 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
3487 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
3488 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
3490 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
3491 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
3494 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3495 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3496 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
3497 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
3498 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
3499 "make install.data" step.
3500 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
3501 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
3502 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
3503 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
3504 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
3505 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
3506 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
3507 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
3508 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
3509 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
3510 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
3511 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
3512 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
3513 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
3516 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3519 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
3520 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
3521 review of Debian package).
3522 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
3523 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
3524 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
3525 install using libtool 1.5.0):
3526 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
3528 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
3529 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
3530 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
3531 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
3532 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3535 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
3536 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
3537 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
3540 + fixes for termcap support:
3541 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
3542 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
3543 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
3544 extended names data will be freed consistently.
3545 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
3547 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
3548 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
3549 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
3550 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
3553 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
3554 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
3555 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
3556 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
3558 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
3562 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
3564 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
3565 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
3568 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
3569 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
3570 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
3571 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
3572 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3573 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
3574 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
3578 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
3579 shift-, control-cursor keys.
3580 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
3581 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
3582 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
3583 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
3584 it will automatically be treated as a key.
3585 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
3586 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
3587 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
3591 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
3592 + add configure option --enable-largefile
3593 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
3597 + update config.guess, config.sub
3598 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
3599 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
3600 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
3601 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
3602 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
3604 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
3605 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
3606 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
3609 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
3610 position the mouse to a particular item.
3611 + implement test/demo_menus.c
3612 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
3613 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
3614 --enable-const option.
3617 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
3618 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
3619 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
3620 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
3621 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
3622 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
3623 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
3624 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
3625 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
3626 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
3627 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
3630 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
3632 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
3633 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3636 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
3637 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
3638 anyone used that configuration.
3639 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
3641 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
3642 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3645 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
3646 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
3647 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
3649 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
3650 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
3651 WenRui, Debian #300512).
3654 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
3655 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
3656 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
3660 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
3661 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
3662 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
3663 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
3664 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
3667 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
3669 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
3671 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
3672 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3673 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
3676 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
3678 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
3679 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
3680 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
3681 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
3682 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
3683 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
3684 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
3685 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
3686 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
3687 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
3688 right (cf: 20040228).
3689 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
3690 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3693 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
3694 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
3695 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
3696 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
3697 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
3698 added (Debian #295083).
3699 + add traces to panel library.
3702 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
3703 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
3704 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
3705 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
3706 mouse events in this case.
3707 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
3708 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3711 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
3712 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
3713 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
3714 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
3715 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
3716 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
3717 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
3718 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
3721 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
3722 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
3723 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
3724 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
3725 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
3726 already been started.
3727 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
3728 pair_content() and color_content().
3729 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
3730 if it corresponds to the default-color.
3731 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
3732 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
3733 color pairs which are allowed.
3734 + add a top-level tags rule.
3737 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
3738 first calling initscr().
3739 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
3740 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
3741 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
3742 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
3743 that are curses-specific.
3744 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
3745 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
3746 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
3747 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
3751 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
3752 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
3753 for leading whitespace.
3754 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
3755 where a following line begins in column 1.
3756 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
3757 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
3760 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3763 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3764 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
3765 + update config.guess, config.sub
3766 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
3767 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
3768 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
3769 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
3770 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
3771 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
3772 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
3775 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
3777 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
3778 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
3781 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
3782 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
3783 and attr_set functions.
3786 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
3787 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
3788 forms-demo to be one character short.
3789 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
3790 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
3791 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
3792 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
3795 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
3796 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
3797 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
3798 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
3800 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
3801 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
3804 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
3805 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
3806 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
3807 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
3808 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
3809 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
3810 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
3812 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
3813 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3815 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
3816 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
3819 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
3820 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
3821 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
3822 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
3823 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
3824 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
3825 wide-character configuration.
3828 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
3829 or multicolumn characters.
3832 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
3833 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
3834 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
3835 use_default_colors() be called first.
3838 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
3839 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
3840 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
3841 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
3842 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
3843 must be wrapped to a new line.
3844 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
3845 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
3846 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
3847 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
3848 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
3852 + minor fixes for traces.
3853 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
3854 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
3855 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
3859 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
3860 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
3861 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
3862 and shift-out which seem to work.
3863 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
3864 at runtime (Debian #110586).
3867 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
3868 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3869 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
3870 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
3874 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
3875 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
3876 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
3877 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3880 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
3881 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
3882 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3883 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
3884 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3885 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
3886 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
3887 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
3888 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
3889 is no longer experimental.
3890 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
3891 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
3894 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
3897 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
3898 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
3899 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
3900 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
3901 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
3902 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
3903 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
3904 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
3907 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
3908 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
3909 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
3910 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
3911 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
3912 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
3913 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
3914 new ones do not require this change. -TD
3917 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
3918 and window managers (Debian #265631).
3919 > terminfo updates -TD
3920 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
3921 with the common usage of bce/ech
3922 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
3926 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
3927 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
3928 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
3929 a help window as well.
3930 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
3931 the -d option is set.
3932 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
3935 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
3937 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
3938 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
3942 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
3943 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
3944 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
3945 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
3946 patch by Hans de Goede)
3947 > terminfo updates -TD
3948 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
3949 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
3950 + add function-keys to decansi
3951 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
3952 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
3953 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
3956 > terminfo updates -TD
3957 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
3958 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
3960 + review/update konsole entries
3961 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
3962 + correct tsl string in kterm
3965 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
3968 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
3969 multibyte character.
3970 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
3972 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
3973 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
3974 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
3975 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
3976 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
3977 converting termcap to termcap format.
3978 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
3979 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
3980 > terminfo updates -TD
3981 + minor fixes for emu
3983 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
3988 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
3989 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
3990 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
3991 (report/patch by Tony Li).
3992 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
3993 > terminfo updates -TD
3994 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
3996 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
3997 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
3998 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
4001 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
4002 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
4004 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
4005 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
4006 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
4007 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
4008 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4009 + update config.guess, config.sub
4010 > terminfo updates -TD
4012 + add xterm-xf86-v44
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