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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
50 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
51 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
52 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
54 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
55 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
56 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
57 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
60 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
61 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
62 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
63 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
64 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
67 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
68 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
69 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
70 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
71 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
72 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
73 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
77 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
78 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
82 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
86 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
87 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
88 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
89 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
90 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
92 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
93 (report by Mike Gran).
96 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
97 demonstration of its limitations.
98 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
99 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
100 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
101 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
102 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
103 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
104 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
106 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
107 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
110 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
111 + implement flash in win_driver.c
112 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
114 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
115 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
116 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
117 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
118 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
119 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
120 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
121 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
124 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
125 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
126 some older cross-compiler environments.
127 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
128 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
129 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
130 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
131 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
132 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
133 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
134 + update config.sub from
135 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
138 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
140 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
143 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
145 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
148 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
149 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
150 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
153 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
154 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
158 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
159 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
160 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
163 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
164 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
165 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
166 + regenerated html manpages.
167 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
168 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
169 which reverses cause/effect.
170 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
171 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
172 + fixes for win_driver.c:
173 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
178 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
179 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
180 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
181 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
183 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
184 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
185 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
186 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
190 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
191 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
192 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
193 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
194 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
195 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
196 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
197 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
198 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
201 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
202 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
203 options, from xterm changes.
206 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
207 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
211 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
212 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
215 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
216 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
217 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
218 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
219 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
220 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
221 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
224 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
225 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
226 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
227 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
228 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
229 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
230 providing directly comparable screens.
231 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
234 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
236 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
237 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
238 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
239 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
240 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
241 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
242 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
245 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
246 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
247 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
248 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
249 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
252 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
253 overlap with sgr functionality.
254 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
255 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
256 + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD
257 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
258 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
259 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
260 older ncurses than 20131207.
261 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
262 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
263 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
264 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
265 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
268 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
269 environment variable.
270 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
271 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
272 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
273 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
274 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
275 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
276 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
277 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
278 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
279 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
280 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
281 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
282 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
283 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
285 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
287 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
288 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
289 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
291 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
292 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
293 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
294 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
295 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
296 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
297 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
299 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
301 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
302 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
303 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
304 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
305 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
306 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
307 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
308 to be consecutive anyway.
309 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
310 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
311 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
312 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
315 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
316 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
317 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
320 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
321 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
322 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
323 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
326 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
328 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
329 simplify later merging:
330 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
331 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
332 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
333 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
334 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
338 + update config.guess, config.sub from
339 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
342 + modify configure script:
343 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
344 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
345 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
346 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
347 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
348 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
349 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
350 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
352 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
353 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
356 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
357 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
358 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
359 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
360 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
361 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
365 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
368 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
369 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
370 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
371 + add terminology entry -TD
372 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
373 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
376 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
377 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
378 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
379 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
380 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
384 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
385 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
386 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
387 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
388 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
391 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
394 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
395 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
396 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
400 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
401 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
402 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
403 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
404 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
405 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
407 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
408 html emitted by docbook.
411 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
412 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
413 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
414 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
417 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
418 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
419 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
420 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
421 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
422 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
425 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
426 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
427 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
428 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
431 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
432 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
435 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
437 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
440 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
441 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
442 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
443 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
445 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
447 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
448 + updated llib-l* files.
451 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
452 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
456 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
460 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
461 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
462 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
463 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
464 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
465 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
466 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
467 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
468 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
469 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
470 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
471 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
472 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
473 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
475 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
477 + update config.sub from
478 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
481 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
484 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
485 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
486 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
487 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
489 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
492 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
493 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
494 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
495 them more consistent with other packages.
498 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
499 compiling ncurses-examples.
500 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
503 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
506 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
507 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
508 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
509 cross-compiles to MinGW.
510 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
514 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
515 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
519 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
520 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
522 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
524 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
525 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
526 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
527 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
528 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
531 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
532 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
533 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
536 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
538 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
539 before/after Debian #700177.
540 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
541 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
543 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
544 of sort, improving portability.
545 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
546 + update config.guess, config.sub from
547 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
550 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
551 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
553 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
554 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
555 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
558 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
559 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
560 introduced by Debian #700177.
561 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
562 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
565 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
566 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
568 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
569 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
570 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
573 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
574 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
576 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
577 cross-compile support packages.
578 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
581 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
582 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
583 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
584 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
585 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
586 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
587 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
588 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
589 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
590 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
591 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
592 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
595 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
596 initialization of cur_term.
599 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
600 + minor compiler-warning fixes
603 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
604 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
605 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
606 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
607 --enable-auto-import flag.
608 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
612 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
613 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
614 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
615 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
616 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
618 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
619 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
620 (patch by Eric Raymond).
623 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
624 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
625 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
627 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
628 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
629 not printing the full pathname of the program.
630 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
631 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
632 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
635 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
636 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
638 + add test/dots_termcap.c
639 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
640 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
641 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
642 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
643 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
644 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
645 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
646 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
647 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
649 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
650 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
653 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
654 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
655 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
656 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
657 the left margin of the display.
658 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
659 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
660 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
661 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
664 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
665 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
666 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
667 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
668 + regenerated html manpages.
669 + update doctype used for html documentation.
672 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
673 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
674 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
675 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
676 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
677 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
680 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
681 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
682 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
683 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
684 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
687 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
688 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
691 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
692 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
693 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
694 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
695 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
697 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
698 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
699 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
700 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
703 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
704 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
705 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
706 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
708 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
710 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
712 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
715 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
719 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
720 (report by Christian Ebert).
721 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
722 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
723 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
726 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
727 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
728 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
729 add bold for consistency with sgr,
730 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
731 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
732 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
734 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
735 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
736 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
737 line split after "%;".
738 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
739 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
742 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
743 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
744 + regenerated html manpages.
745 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
746 + updated some autoconf macros:
747 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
748 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
749 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
750 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
751 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
752 configuration (Redhat #911540).
753 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
754 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
757 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
758 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
760 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
761 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
763 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
764 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
765 of raw input in MinGW port.
768 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
769 + update config.guess, config.sub
772 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
774 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
776 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
777 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
778 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
779 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
780 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
781 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
782 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
784 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
785 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
788 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
789 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
791 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
792 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
793 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
796 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
797 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
798 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
801 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
802 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
803 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
805 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
806 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
807 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
808 by Dennis Grevenstein).
809 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
811 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
812 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
813 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
816 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
817 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
818 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
819 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
820 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
821 + improve error-checking in copywin
822 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
823 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
824 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
825 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
826 matching capability names.
827 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
828 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
829 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
832 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
833 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
834 are unused in the current driver model.
835 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
837 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
838 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
839 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
840 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
843 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
844 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
846 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
847 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
848 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
849 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
850 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
853 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
854 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
855 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
859 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
861 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
862 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
864 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
865 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
866 wide-character which can be used.
869 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
870 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
871 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
872 by Erwin Waterlander).
873 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
874 > fixes based on Coverity report:
875 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
876 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
877 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
878 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
882 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
883 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
884 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
885 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
886 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
887 > fixes based on Coverity report:
888 + remove a few redundant checks.
889 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
891 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
892 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
893 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
894 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
896 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
897 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
898 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
902 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
903 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
904 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
908 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
909 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
910 > fixes based on Coverity report:
911 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
914 > fixes based on Coverity report:
915 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
916 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
917 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
918 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
919 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
920 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
921 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
923 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
924 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
925 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
926 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
929 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
930 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
931 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
933 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
934 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
935 libraries or executables.
938 + realign these related pages:
943 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
944 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
945 (report by Reuben Thomas).
946 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
947 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
948 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
949 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
950 based on testing with tack -TD
951 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
952 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
955 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
957 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
958 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
959 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
962 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
966 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
967 (patch by Christian Persch).
970 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
972 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
973 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
974 has used that for a while.
975 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
976 for experimental use.
977 + remove unused configure macros.
978 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
979 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
980 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
981 + update config.guess, config.sub
984 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
985 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
986 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
987 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
988 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
989 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
990 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
993 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
994 to help with MinGW port.
997 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
999 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1002 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1005 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1006 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1007 might not be allocated.
1008 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1011 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1012 initial screen-sizes.
1013 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1014 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1018 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1019 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1023 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1024 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1025 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1027 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1028 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1031 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1032 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1033 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1034 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1035 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1036 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1037 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1041 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1042 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1043 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1044 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1045 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1046 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1047 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1048 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1052 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1053 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1054 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1055 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1056 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1057 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1060 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1064 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1066 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1068 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1069 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1070 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1071 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1072 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1073 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1076 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1078 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1079 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1080 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1082 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1083 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1086 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1087 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1088 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1091 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1092 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1094 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1095 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1097 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1098 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1101 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1103 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1104 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1105 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1106 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1107 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1108 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1111 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1112 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1113 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1114 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1115 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1116 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1117 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1118 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1119 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1121 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1122 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1123 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1124 Onno van der Linden).
1127 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1129 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1131 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1132 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1135 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1136 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1137 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1138 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1139 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1140 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1141 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1144 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1145 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1146 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1147 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1148 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1149 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1150 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1151 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1152 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1153 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1154 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1155 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1156 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1157 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1158 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1161 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1162 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1163 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1164 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1165 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1166 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1167 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1168 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1169 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1170 are interpreted as key definitions.
1171 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1172 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1176 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1177 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1178 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1179 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1180 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1181 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1182 as building-blocks -TD
1183 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1186 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1187 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1188 title is a status-line. -TD
1189 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1190 of ordering and overrides -TD
1191 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1192 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1193 used in that file -TD
1196 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1197 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1198 definable capabilities.
1199 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1200 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1201 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1202 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1203 embedded in the description.
1204 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1205 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1206 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1207 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1208 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1209 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1212 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1213 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1214 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1215 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1216 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1217 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1218 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1219 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1222 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1223 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1224 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1225 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1226 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1227 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1230 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1231 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1232 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1234 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1235 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1236 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1237 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1240 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1241 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1242 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1245 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1246 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1247 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1249 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1250 calls to setupterm().
1251 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1253 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1254 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1255 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1257 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1261 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1264 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1266 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1267 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1268 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1269 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1270 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1271 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1273 + update config.guess, config.sub
1276 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1277 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1278 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1279 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1280 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1281 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1282 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1283 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1284 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1287 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1288 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1289 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1290 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1291 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1292 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1293 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1294 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1295 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1296 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1297 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1298 Linux versus most other systems.
1301 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1305 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1306 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1307 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1308 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1309 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1310 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1311 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1312 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1313 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1314 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1315 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1316 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1317 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1318 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1321 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1323 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1325 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1326 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1327 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1328 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1331 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1333 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1334 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1335 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1336 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1337 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1339 + regenerated html manpages.
1342 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1343 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1344 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1345 + change recommended regular expression library.
1346 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1347 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1350 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1351 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1352 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1353 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1354 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1355 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1356 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1360 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1361 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1363 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1366 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1368 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1370 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1371 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1372 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1374 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1376 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1379 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1380 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1381 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1382 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1384 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1385 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1386 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1389 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1390 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1392 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1395 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1397 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1399 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1401 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1402 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1403 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1404 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1405 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1406 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1407 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1410 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1411 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1413 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1414 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1415 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1416 database (cf: 20111001).
1419 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1420 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1421 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1423 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1424 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1426 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1427 in older FreeBSD machines.
1428 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1429 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1430 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1433 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1434 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1435 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1436 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1437 root's home directory.
1438 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1439 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1440 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1441 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1442 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1444 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1445 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1446 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1447 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1448 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1449 (report by Peter Kruse).
1452 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1453 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1455 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1457 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1458 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1459 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1462 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1463 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1464 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1465 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1466 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1467 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1470 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1471 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1472 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1473 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1474 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1477 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1478 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1479 input and output of termcap source.
1480 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1481 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1482 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1483 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1484 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1485 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1486 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1487 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1488 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1491 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1494 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1496 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1497 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1498 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1499 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1501 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1504 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1505 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1507 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1508 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1511 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1512 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1514 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1515 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1517 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1518 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1519 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1520 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1522 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1523 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1524 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1525 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1527 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1528 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1531 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1532 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1533 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1534 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1537 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1538 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1539 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1540 + add terminator entry -TD
1541 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1542 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1543 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1547 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1548 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1549 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1550 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1551 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1552 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1553 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1554 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1555 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1556 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1560 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1561 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1562 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1563 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1564 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1565 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1567 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1568 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1569 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1571 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1574 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1575 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1576 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1577 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1579 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1580 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1582 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1583 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1584 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1585 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1586 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1587 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1588 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1589 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1591 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1592 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1594 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1595 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1596 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1597 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1598 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1599 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1600 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1601 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1602 translating to termcap.
1603 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1604 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1607 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1608 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1609 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1610 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1611 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1612 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1614 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1615 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1616 regarding Schilling's test program):
1617 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1618 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1619 + use \040 rather than \s
1620 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1621 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1624 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1625 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1626 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1627 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1628 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1629 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1630 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1631 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1632 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1633 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1634 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1635 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1638 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1639 are not used in the $CC variable.
1640 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1641 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1642 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1643 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1644 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1645 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1648 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1649 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1653 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1654 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1655 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1656 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1657 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1659 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1660 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1662 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1665 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1666 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1669 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1670 + set default prefix to /usr.
1671 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1672 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1673 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1674 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1677 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1678 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1679 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1680 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1682 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1683 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1687 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1690 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1691 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1692 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1694 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1695 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1696 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1697 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1700 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1701 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1702 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1703 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1704 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1705 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1706 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1707 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1708 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1709 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1710 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1713 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1714 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1716 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1717 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1718 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1719 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1722 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1723 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1724 as different types on some Unix systems.
1725 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1726 function pointer passed to tputs().
1727 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1728 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1729 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1730 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1733 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1734 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1735 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1736 + update config.guess, config.sub
1739 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1741 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1742 some ncurses packages.
1743 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1744 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1745 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1747 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1750 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1751 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1752 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1753 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1754 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1755 needed for rpm script.
1756 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1757 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1758 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1761 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1762 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1763 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1764 that sample program.
1765 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1766 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1767 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1768 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1772 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1774 + regen Ada html documentation.
1775 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1776 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1778 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1780 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1781 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1782 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1783 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1784 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1785 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1787 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1788 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1790 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1791 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1794 + regen Ada html documentation.
1795 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1796 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1798 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1799 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1800 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1801 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1802 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1803 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1804 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1805 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1806 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1807 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1808 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1809 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1810 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1811 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1812 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1813 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1814 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1815 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1816 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1819 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1820 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1821 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1823 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1825 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1826 explain.txt is not found.
1829 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1830 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1831 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1832 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1833 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1835 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1838 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1839 + regenerated html manpages.
1840 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1842 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1843 a new install of hashed database.
1844 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1847 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1848 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1849 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1850 wide-character configuration.
1851 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1852 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1855 + regenerated html manpages.
1856 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1857 special case of trace configuration.
1860 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1861 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1862 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1863 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1864 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1868 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1869 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1870 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1871 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1872 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1874 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1875 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1878 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1879 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1880 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1881 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1882 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1883 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1884 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1885 file configuration if that is used.
1886 + update config.guess, config.sub
1889 + regenerated html manpages.
1890 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1892 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1893 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1896 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1897 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1900 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1901 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1902 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1905 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1907 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1908 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1909 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1910 wide-character configuration.
1911 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1912 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1913 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1916 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1917 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1918 version which works with termcap.
1919 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1920 (request by Sven Joachim).
1921 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1922 (report by Sven Joachim).
1925 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1926 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1927 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1930 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1932 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1933 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1936 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1938 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1939 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1940 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1941 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1942 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1943 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1947 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1948 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1949 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1951 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1954 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1956 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1960 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1962 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1963 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1964 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1965 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1966 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1967 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1968 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1969 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1970 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1971 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1972 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1973 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1976 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1977 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1978 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1979 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1980 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1981 external package "cindent".
1984 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1985 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1986 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1987 inconsistent printer-controls.
1988 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1989 form is available -TD
1990 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1992 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1994 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1995 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1996 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1997 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1998 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2000 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2001 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2005 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2006 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2007 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2008 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2009 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2011 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2014 + regenerated html manpages.
2015 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2016 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2017 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2020 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2022 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2023 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2024 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2025 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2029 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2030 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2033 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2034 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2035 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2036 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2037 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2038 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2039 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2043 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2044 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2045 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2046 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2047 by Tim van der Molen).
2048 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2049 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2050 library configuration.
2051 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2052 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2053 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2056 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2058 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2059 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2060 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2061 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2062 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2065 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2066 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2067 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2068 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2069 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2070 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2071 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2072 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2075 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2076 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2077 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2078 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2079 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2080 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2081 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2082 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2085 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2086 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2087 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2088 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2091 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2092 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2093 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2096 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2097 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2098 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2101 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2102 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2103 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2104 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2107 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2108 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2109 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2111 + update Ada95/configure.
2112 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2113 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2114 of updating LIBS variable.
2117 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2118 work with 64-bit compiles.
2119 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2123 + regenerated html documentation.
2124 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2126 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2127 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2128 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2129 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2132 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2133 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2135 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2136 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2137 build- and target-machines differ.
2138 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2139 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2141 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2142 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2145 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2146 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2147 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2148 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2149 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2150 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2151 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2152 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2153 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2154 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2155 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2156 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2157 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2158 found in predefined libraries.
2159 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2162 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2163 (patch by David Benjamin).
2164 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2165 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2166 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2167 may be defined by that route.
2170 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2171 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2172 the predefined include directories.
2173 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2174 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2175 where older versions would produce an error.
2178 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2179 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2180 terminfo to termcap strings
2181 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2182 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2183 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2184 directory was already added.
2185 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2186 directories (which will be ignored).
2189 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2190 + discard motion events
2191 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2192 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2193 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2194 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2197 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2198 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2199 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2200 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2201 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2202 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2203 extended-colors configuration.
2204 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2205 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2206 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2209 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2211 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2212 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2213 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2215 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2216 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2217 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2220 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2221 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2225 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2226 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2227 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2228 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2229 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2230 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2231 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2232 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2233 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2237 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2238 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2239 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2240 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2243 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2245 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2246 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2247 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2250 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2251 making those separately distributable.
2252 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2253 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2257 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2260 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2261 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2262 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2263 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2267 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2268 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2269 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2270 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2273 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2274 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2275 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2276 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2278 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2279 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2280 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2281 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2285 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2286 that line-drawing works.
2287 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2288 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2289 capabilities can run.
2290 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2294 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2295 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2296 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2297 before older in the list.
2298 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2299 + minor documentation cleanup.
2300 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2301 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2302 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2305 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2306 most common case of SGR 0.
2307 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2308 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2309 events remain, it will return ERR.
2312 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2313 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2314 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2315 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2316 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2319 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2320 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2321 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2324 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2325 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2326 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2327 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2328 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2329 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2332 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2333 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2334 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2335 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2336 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2338 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2340 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2342 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2343 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2344 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2346 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2347 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2350 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2351 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2353 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2354 writing terminfo entries.
2355 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2356 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2357 by Nicholas Marriott).
2360 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2362 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2363 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2367 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2368 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2369 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2370 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2371 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2375 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2376 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2377 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2378 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2381 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2382 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2383 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2384 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2385 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2386 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2387 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2390 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2391 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2392 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2393 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2394 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2395 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2396 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2397 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2398 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2399 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2400 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2403 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2404 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2405 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2406 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2409 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2410 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2413 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2414 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2415 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2419 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2420 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2421 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2422 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2423 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2425 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2426 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2429 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2430 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2431 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2432 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2433 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2434 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2436 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2437 library (some work remains for forms library).
2440 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2441 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2442 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2443 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2445 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2446 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2447 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2448 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2451 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2452 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2455 test/test_addchstr.c
2456 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2457 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2458 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2459 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2462 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2464 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2465 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2466 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2467 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2471 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2472 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2473 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2474 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2477 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2478 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2479 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2482 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2485 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2486 broken in 20090510 merging.
2487 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2488 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2489 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2490 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2491 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2492 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2493 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2494 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2496 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2499 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2500 implementation details of hash function.
2503 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2504 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2505 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2508 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2509 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2510 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2511 test/demo_terminfo.c
2512 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2513 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2516 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2517 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2521 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2524 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2526 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2527 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2528 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2529 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2530 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2532 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2533 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2534 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2537 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2538 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2539 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2542 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2543 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2545 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2548 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2549 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2551 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2552 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2556 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2557 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2558 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2561 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2564 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2567 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2568 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2569 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2570 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2573 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2576 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2577 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2578 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2579 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2583 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2586 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2587 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2590 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2593 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2597 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2600 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2601 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2602 part of the form library.
2605 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2606 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2609 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2610 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2611 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2612 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2613 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2614 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2615 a temporary variable.
2616 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2617 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2618 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2619 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2620 with Charles Wilson).
2621 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2622 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2623 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2624 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2625 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2626 digits, after the final '.').
2627 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2628 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2629 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2630 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2631 from 20090321 changes.
2632 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2633 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2634 termlib) is to be linked.
2635 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2636 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2639 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2640 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2641 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2642 (report by Charles Wilson).
2643 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2644 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2645 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2646 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2647 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2650 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2651 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2652 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2653 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2654 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2656 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2657 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2658 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2659 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2660 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2661 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2662 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2663 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2666 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2667 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2668 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2671 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2674 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2676 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2677 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2678 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2679 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2680 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2683 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2684 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2685 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2686 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2687 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2688 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2691 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2692 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2694 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2695 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2696 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2699 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2700 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2701 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2702 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2703 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2704 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2705 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2706 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2707 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2710 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2711 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2713 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2715 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2716 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2719 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2721 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2722 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2723 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2724 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2727 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2728 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2729 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2731 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2732 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2735 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2736 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2737 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2738 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2739 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2740 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2742 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2743 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2745 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2746 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2749 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2750 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2751 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2754 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2755 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2756 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2758 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2759 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2762 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2764 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2765 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2766 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2768 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2769 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2770 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2771 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2772 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2773 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2775 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2776 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2779 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2780 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2781 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2782 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2783 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2784 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2785 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2786 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2787 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2788 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2789 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2792 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2793 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2794 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2795 passing color or video attributes.
2796 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2797 display meta-characters.
2798 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2799 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2800 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2801 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2805 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2806 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2807 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2809 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2812 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2814 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2815 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2817 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2820 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2821 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2822 does not work well on that platform).
2823 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2826 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2827 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2828 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2830 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2831 --disable-database is used.
2832 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2833 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2834 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2835 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2839 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2840 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2841 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2842 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2843 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2844 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2845 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2849 + regenerated html documentation.
2850 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2851 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2852 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2853 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2854 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2855 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2856 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2857 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2860 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2861 works for C/C++ parts).
2862 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2863 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2866 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2867 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2868 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2869 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2870 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2871 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2872 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2873 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2874 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2876 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2877 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2878 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2879 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2880 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2881 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2884 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2885 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2888 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2889 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2890 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2891 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2892 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2893 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2896 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2897 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2900 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2904 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2905 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2906 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2907 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2909 + update test/configure script.
2910 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2911 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2912 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2913 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2914 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2917 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2918 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2920 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2922 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2923 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2924 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2925 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2926 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2927 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2928 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2929 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2930 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2933 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2934 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2935 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2936 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2937 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2938 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2939 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2940 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2941 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2942 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2943 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2947 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2948 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2949 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2950 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2951 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2953 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2954 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2955 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2956 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2957 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2960 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2961 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2962 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2963 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2964 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2965 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2966 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2969 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2973 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2976 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2979 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2980 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2982 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2983 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2984 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2988 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2989 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2991 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2992 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2993 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2994 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2997 + regenerated html documentation.
2998 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2999 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3000 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3001 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3002 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3005 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3006 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3007 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3011 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3012 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3013 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3014 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3015 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3016 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3019 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3020 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3022 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3023 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3024 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3025 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3026 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3027 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3028 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3029 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3030 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3033 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3034 screen which must be updated.
3035 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3036 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3037 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3041 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3042 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3044 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3045 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3046 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3047 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3050 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3051 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3052 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3054 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3058 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3059 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3060 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3063 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3064 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3065 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3066 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3069 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3070 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3072 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3074 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3077 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3078 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3079 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3080 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3081 python-dev2 mailing list).
3084 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3085 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3086 are not associated with a particular screen.
3087 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3088 stdscr to the callback function.
3089 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3090 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3091 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3092 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3093 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3094 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3095 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3099 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3100 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3101 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3102 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3104 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3105 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3106 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3107 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3108 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3111 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3112 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3113 that the 'F' accepts.
3114 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3115 are working concurrently.
3116 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3120 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3121 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3122 _nc_free_and_exit().
3125 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3126 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3129 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3130 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3133 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3134 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3135 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3136 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3139 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3140 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3141 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3142 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3143 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3144 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3146 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3147 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3151 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3152 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3153 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3156 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3157 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3158 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3161 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3162 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3163 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3167 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3168 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3169 "link_test" builds properly.
3170 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3171 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3172 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3173 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3174 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3175 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3176 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3178 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3181 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3185 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3186 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3189 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3191 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3192 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3193 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3196 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3197 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3198 pierre4d2 comments).
3199 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3200 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3201 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3202 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3206 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3207 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3208 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3209 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3210 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3212 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3213 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3214 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3218 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3219 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3222 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3224 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3226 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3230 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3231 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3233 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3234 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3235 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3236 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3237 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3239 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3240 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3243 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3244 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3245 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3246 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3249 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3250 calls within the ncurses library.
3251 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3253 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3254 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3255 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3257 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3258 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3259 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3260 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3261 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3264 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3265 for threaded library (incomplete).
3266 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3267 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3271 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3272 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3273 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3274 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3275 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3276 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3277 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3278 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3279 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3282 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3284 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3285 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3288 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3289 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3290 "\0" followed by a digit.
3291 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3292 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3293 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3294 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3295 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3296 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3297 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3298 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3299 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3302 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3303 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3304 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3305 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3306 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3308 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3309 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3310 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3314 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3315 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3316 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3317 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3318 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3319 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3320 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3321 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3322 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3325 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3326 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3327 + add test/test_getstr.c
3328 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3329 + add test/test_instr.c
3332 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3333 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3334 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3338 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3339 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3340 ".log" to the name and try again.
3341 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3342 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3343 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3344 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3345 --disable-echo option is used.
3346 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3347 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3348 + update config.guess, config.sub
3351 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3352 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3353 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3357 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3358 problems with multi-column characters.
3359 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3360 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3361 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3362 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3363 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3364 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3365 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3368 + add test/demo_panels.c
3369 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3372 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3374 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3375 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3378 + add test/key_name.c
3379 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3380 + update test/configure
3381 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3382 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3383 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3387 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3388 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3389 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3390 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3391 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3392 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3393 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3394 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3395 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3398 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3399 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3400 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3401 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3402 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3403 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3406 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3407 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3409 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3410 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3411 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3412 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3415 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3416 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3417 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3418 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3420 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3422 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3423 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3424 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3425 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3426 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3429 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3430 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3432 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3433 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3434 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3435 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3436 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3437 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3438 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3439 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3440 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3441 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3442 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3445 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3446 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3447 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3448 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3449 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3450 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3451 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3454 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3455 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3456 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3457 Ada95 tree is not built.
3460 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3461 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3462 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3463 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3464 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3465 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3467 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3468 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3469 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3470 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3471 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3472 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3473 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3474 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3475 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3476 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3477 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3478 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3479 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3480 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3481 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3482 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3483 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3484 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3485 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3487 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3488 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3489 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3490 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3491 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3492 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3493 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3494 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3495 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3498 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3499 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3500 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3501 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3502 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3503 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3504 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3505 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3509 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3510 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3511 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3512 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3513 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3517 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3518 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3519 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3520 in the configure script to an error.
3521 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3522 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3523 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3524 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3525 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3527 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3528 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3531 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3532 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3535 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3536 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3538 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3539 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3540 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3541 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3542 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3543 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3544 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3545 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3548 + regenerated html documentation.
3549 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3550 opaque in selected configurations.
3551 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3552 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3553 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3554 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3555 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3556 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3557 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3558 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3559 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3560 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3561 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3563 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3564 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3567 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3568 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3569 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3570 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3571 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3572 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3573 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3574 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3575 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3576 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3577 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3578 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3581 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3583 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3584 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3585 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3587 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3588 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3589 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3590 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3591 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3592 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3593 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3594 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3596 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3597 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3600 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3601 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3603 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3605 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3606 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3607 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3610 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3611 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3612 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3613 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3615 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3616 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3617 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3618 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3619 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3620 no longer relies on it.
3621 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3622 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3623 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3626 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3627 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3630 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3631 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3632 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3633 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3634 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3635 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3636 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3637 its license consistent with ncurses.
3638 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3639 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3640 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3643 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3644 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3645 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3646 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3650 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3651 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3652 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3654 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3655 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3658 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3659 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3660 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3663 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3664 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3665 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3666 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3667 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3668 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3669 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3670 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3671 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3672 to manpages as needed.
3673 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3674 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3677 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3678 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3679 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3680 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3681 + update config.guess, config.sub
3683 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3686 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3687 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3688 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3689 correct nor portable.
3690 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3692 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3693 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3697 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3698 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3699 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3700 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3701 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3702 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3705 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3706 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3707 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3708 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3710 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3711 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3712 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3713 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3714 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3715 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3716 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3717 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3720 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3721 database configuration.
3722 + updates for test/configure script.
3723 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3724 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3726 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3727 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3728 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3729 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3731 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3732 _nc_printf_string().
3733 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3734 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3737 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3738 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3740 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3741 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3745 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3746 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3749 + add test/echochar.c
3750 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3751 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3754 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3755 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3756 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3757 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3760 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3761 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3762 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3764 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3765 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3766 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3767 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3768 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3769 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3770 Ralf S Engelschall).
3771 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3772 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3773 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3774 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3777 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3778 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3779 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3782 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3783 and status line (Alain Bench).
3784 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3785 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3786 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3787 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3790 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3791 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3792 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3793 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3794 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3797 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3798 + updated html documentation.
3799 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3800 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3803 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3804 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3805 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3806 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3807 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3808 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3809 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3810 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3811 by report by Christopher Parker).
3815 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3816 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3817 since it does not really do this -TD
3820 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3821 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3822 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3823 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3826 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3827 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3828 embedded into a termcap description.
3829 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3830 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3831 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3832 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3833 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3836 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3838 + add test/foldkeys.c
3841 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3842 source output (Debian #378783).
3843 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3844 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3845 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3846 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3847 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3848 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3851 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3852 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3853 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3856 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3857 or as a text file if those are not available.
3858 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3859 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3860 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3863 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3864 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3865 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3866 + update config.guess, config.sub
3869 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3870 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3871 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3873 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3874 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3876 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3877 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3878 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3879 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3880 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3881 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3883 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3884 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3885 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3886 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3889 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3890 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3894 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3895 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3897 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3898 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3899 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3900 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3901 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3902 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3905 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3906 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3907 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3908 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3909 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3910 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3911 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3912 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3913 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3914 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3917 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3918 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3919 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3920 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3922 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3925 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3926 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3927 + minor copyright fixes.
3928 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3931 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3932 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3933 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3934 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3935 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3936 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3937 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3938 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3940 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3941 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3942 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3943 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3945 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3948 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3949 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3951 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3952 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3953 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3954 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3956 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3957 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3958 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3959 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3962 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3963 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3964 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3965 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3966 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3967 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3968 + update config.guess, config.sub
3969 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3970 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3971 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3972 function is broken in that implementation.
3975 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3976 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3979 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3980 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3982 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3983 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3985 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3986 reported to implement this feature -TD
3989 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3990 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3993 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3994 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3995 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3996 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3997 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3998 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3999 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
4000 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
4003 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
4004 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
4006 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
4007 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
4010 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
4011 (report by Alain Bench).
4012 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
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