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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 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
50 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
51 some older cross-compiler environments.
52 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
53 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
54 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
55 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
56 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
57 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
58 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
59 + update config.sub from
60 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
63 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
65 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
68 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
70 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
73 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
74 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
75 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
78 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
79 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
83 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
84 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
85 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
88 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
89 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
90 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
91 + regenerated html manpages.
92 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
93 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
94 which reverses cause/effect.
95 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
96 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
97 + fixes for win_driver.c:
98 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
103 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
104 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
105 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
106 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
108 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
109 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
110 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
111 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
115 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
116 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
117 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
118 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
119 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
120 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
121 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
122 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
123 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
126 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
127 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
128 options, from xterm changes.
131 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
132 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
136 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
137 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
140 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
141 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
142 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
143 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
144 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
145 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
146 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
149 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
150 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
151 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
152 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
153 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
154 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
155 providing directly comparable screens.
156 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
159 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
161 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
162 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
163 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
164 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
165 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
166 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
167 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
170 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
171 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
172 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
173 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
174 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
177 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
178 overlap with sgr functionality.
179 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
180 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
181 + update xterm-new to patch #305 -TD
182 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
183 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
184 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
185 older ncurses than 20131207.
186 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
187 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
188 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
189 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
190 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
193 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
194 environment variable.
195 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
196 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
197 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
198 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
199 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
200 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
201 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
202 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
203 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
204 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
205 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
206 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
207 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
208 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
210 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
212 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
213 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
214 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
216 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
217 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
218 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
219 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
220 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
221 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
222 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
224 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
226 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
227 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
228 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
229 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
230 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
231 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
232 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
233 to be consecutive anyway.
234 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
235 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
236 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
237 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
240 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
241 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
242 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
245 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
246 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
247 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
248 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
251 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
253 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
254 simplify later merging:
255 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
256 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
257 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
258 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
259 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
263 + update config.guess, config.sub from
264 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
267 + modify configure script:
268 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
269 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
270 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
271 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
272 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
273 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
274 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
275 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
277 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
278 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
281 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
282 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
283 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
284 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
285 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
286 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
290 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
293 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
294 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
295 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
296 + add terminology entry -TD
297 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
298 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
301 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
302 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
303 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
304 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
305 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
309 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
310 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
311 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
312 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
313 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
316 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
319 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
320 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
321 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
325 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
326 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
327 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
328 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
329 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
330 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
332 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
333 html emitted by docbook.
336 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
337 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
338 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
339 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
342 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
343 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
344 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
345 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
346 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
347 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
350 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
351 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
352 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
353 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
356 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
357 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
360 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
362 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
365 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
366 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
367 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
368 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
370 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
372 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
373 + updated llib-l* files.
376 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
377 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
381 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
385 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
386 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
387 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
388 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
389 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
390 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
391 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
392 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
393 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
394 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
395 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
396 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
397 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
398 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
400 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
402 + update config.sub from
403 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
406 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
409 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
410 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
411 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
412 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
414 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
417 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
418 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
419 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
420 them more consistent with other packages.
423 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
424 compiling ncurses-examples.
425 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
428 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
431 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
432 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
433 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
434 cross-compiles to MinGW.
435 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
439 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
440 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
444 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
445 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
447 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
449 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
450 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
451 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
452 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
453 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
456 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
457 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
458 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
461 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
463 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
464 before/after Debian #700177.
465 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
466 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
468 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
469 of sort, improving portability.
470 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
471 + update config.guess, config.sub from
472 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
475 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
476 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
478 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
479 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
480 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
483 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
484 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
485 introduced by Debian #700177.
486 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
487 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
490 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
491 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
493 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
494 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
495 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
498 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
499 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
501 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
502 cross-compile support packages.
503 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
506 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
507 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
508 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
509 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
510 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
511 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
512 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
513 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
514 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
515 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
516 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
517 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
520 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
521 initialization of cur_term.
524 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
525 + minor compiler-warning fixes
528 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
529 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
530 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
531 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
532 --enable-auto-import flag.
533 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
537 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
538 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
539 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
540 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
541 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
543 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
544 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
545 (patch by Eric Raymond).
548 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
549 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
550 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
552 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
553 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
554 not printing the full pathname of the program.
555 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
556 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
557 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
560 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
561 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
563 + add test/dots_termcap.c
564 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
565 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
566 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
567 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
568 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
569 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
570 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
571 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
572 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
574 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
575 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
578 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
579 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
580 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
581 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
582 the left margin of the display.
583 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
584 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
585 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
586 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
589 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
590 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
591 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
592 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
593 + regenerated html manpages.
594 + update doctype used for html documentation.
597 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
598 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
599 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
600 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
601 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
602 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
605 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
606 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
607 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
608 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
609 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
612 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
613 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
616 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
617 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
618 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
619 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
620 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
622 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
623 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
624 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
625 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
628 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
629 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
630 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
631 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
633 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
635 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
637 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
640 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
644 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
645 (report by Christian Ebert).
646 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
647 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
648 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
651 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
652 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
653 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
654 add bold for consistency with sgr,
655 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
656 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
657 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
659 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
660 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
661 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
662 line split after "%;".
663 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
664 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
667 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
668 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
669 + regenerated html manpages.
670 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
671 + updated some autoconf macros:
672 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
673 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
674 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
675 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
676 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
677 configuration (Redhat #911540).
678 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
679 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
682 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
683 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
685 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
686 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
688 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
689 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
690 of raw input in MinGW port.
693 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
694 + update config.guess, config.sub
697 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
699 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
701 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
702 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
703 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
704 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
705 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
706 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
707 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
709 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
710 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
713 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
714 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
716 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
717 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
718 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
721 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
722 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
723 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
726 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
727 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
728 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
730 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
731 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
732 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
733 by Dennis Grevenstein).
734 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
736 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
737 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
738 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
741 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
742 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
743 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
744 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
745 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
746 + improve error-checking in copywin
747 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
748 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
749 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
750 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
751 matching capability names.
752 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
753 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
754 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
757 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
758 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
759 are unused in the current driver model.
760 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
762 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
763 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
764 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
765 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
768 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
769 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
771 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
772 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
773 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
774 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
775 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
778 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
779 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
780 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
784 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
786 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
787 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
789 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
790 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
791 wide-character which can be used.
794 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
795 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
796 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
797 by Erwin Waterlander).
798 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
799 > fixes based on Coverity report:
800 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
801 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
802 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
803 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
807 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
808 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
809 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
810 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
811 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
812 > fixes based on Coverity report:
813 + remove a few redundant checks.
814 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
816 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
817 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
818 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
819 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
821 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
822 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
823 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
827 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
828 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
829 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
833 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
834 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
835 > fixes based on Coverity report:
836 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
839 > fixes based on Coverity report:
840 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
841 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
842 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
843 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
844 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
845 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
846 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
848 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
849 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
850 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
851 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
854 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
855 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
856 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
858 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
859 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
860 libraries or executables.
863 + realign these related pages:
868 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
869 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
870 (report by Reuben Thomas).
871 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
872 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
873 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
874 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
875 based on testing with tack -TD
876 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
877 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
880 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
882 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
883 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
884 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
887 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
891 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
892 (patch by Christian Persch).
895 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
897 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
898 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
899 has used that for a while.
900 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
901 for experimental use.
902 + remove unused configure macros.
903 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
904 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
905 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
906 + update config.guess, config.sub
909 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
910 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
911 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
912 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
913 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
914 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
915 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
918 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
919 to help with MinGW port.
922 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
924 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
927 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
930 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
931 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
932 might not be allocated.
933 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
936 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
937 initial screen-sizes.
938 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
939 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
943 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
944 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
948 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
949 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
950 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
952 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
953 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
956 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
957 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
958 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
959 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
960 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
961 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
962 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
966 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
967 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
968 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
969 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
970 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
971 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
972 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
973 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
977 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
978 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
979 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
980 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
981 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
982 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
985 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
989 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
991 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
993 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
994 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
995 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
996 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
997 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
998 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1001 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1003 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1004 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1005 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1007 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1008 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1011 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1012 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1013 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1016 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1017 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1019 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1020 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1022 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1023 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1026 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1028 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1029 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1030 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1031 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1032 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1033 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1036 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1037 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1038 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1039 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1040 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1041 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1042 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1043 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1044 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1046 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1047 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1048 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1049 Onno van der Linden).
1052 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1054 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1056 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1057 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1060 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1061 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1062 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1063 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1064 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1065 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1066 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1069 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1070 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1071 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1072 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1073 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1074 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1075 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1076 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1077 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1078 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1079 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1080 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1081 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1082 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1083 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1086 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1087 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1088 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1089 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1090 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1091 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1092 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1093 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1094 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1095 are interpreted as key definitions.
1096 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1097 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1101 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1102 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1103 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1104 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1105 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1106 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1107 as building-blocks -TD
1108 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1111 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1112 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1113 title is a status-line. -TD
1114 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1115 of ordering and overrides -TD
1116 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1117 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1118 used in that file -TD
1121 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1122 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1123 definable capabilities.
1124 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1125 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1126 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1127 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1128 embedded in the description.
1129 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1130 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1131 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1132 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1133 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1134 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1137 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1138 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1139 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1140 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1141 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1142 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1143 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1144 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1147 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1148 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1149 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1150 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1151 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1152 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1155 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1156 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1157 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1159 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1160 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1161 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1162 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1165 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1166 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1167 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1170 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1171 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1172 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1174 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1175 calls to setupterm().
1176 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1178 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1179 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1180 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1182 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1186 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1189 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1191 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1192 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1193 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1194 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1195 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1196 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1198 + update config.guess, config.sub
1201 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1202 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1203 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1204 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1205 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1206 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1207 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1208 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1209 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1212 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1213 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1214 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1215 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1216 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1217 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1218 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1219 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1220 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1221 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1222 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1223 Linux versus most other systems.
1226 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1230 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1231 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1232 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1233 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1234 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1235 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1236 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1237 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1238 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1239 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1240 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1241 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1242 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1243 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1246 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1248 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1250 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1251 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1252 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1253 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1256 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1258 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1259 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1260 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1261 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1262 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1264 + regenerated html manpages.
1267 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1268 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1269 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1270 + change recommended regular expression library.
1271 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1272 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1275 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1276 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1277 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1278 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1279 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1280 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1281 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1285 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1286 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1288 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1291 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1293 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1295 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1296 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1297 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1299 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1301 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1304 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1305 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1306 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1307 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1309 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1310 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1311 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1314 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1315 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1317 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1320 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1322 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1324 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1326 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1327 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1328 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1329 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1330 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1331 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1332 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1335 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1336 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1338 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1339 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1340 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1341 database (cf: 20111001).
1344 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1345 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1346 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1348 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1349 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1351 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1352 in older FreeBSD machines.
1353 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1354 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1355 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1358 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1359 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1360 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1361 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1362 root's home directory.
1363 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1364 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1365 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1366 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1367 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1369 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1370 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1371 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1372 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1373 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1374 (report by Peter Kruse).
1377 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1378 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1380 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1382 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1383 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1384 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1387 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1388 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1389 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1390 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1391 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1392 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1395 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1396 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1397 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1398 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1399 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1402 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1403 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1404 input and output of termcap source.
1405 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1406 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1407 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1408 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1409 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1410 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1411 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1412 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1413 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1416 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1419 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1421 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1422 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1423 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1424 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1426 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1429 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1430 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1432 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1433 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1436 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1437 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1439 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1440 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1442 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1443 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1444 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1445 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1447 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1448 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1449 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1450 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1452 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1453 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1456 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1457 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1458 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1459 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1462 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1463 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1464 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1465 + add terminator entry -TD
1466 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1467 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1468 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1472 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1473 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1474 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1475 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1476 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1477 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1478 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1479 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1480 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1481 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1485 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1486 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1487 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1488 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1489 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1490 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1492 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1493 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1494 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1496 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1499 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1500 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1501 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1502 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1504 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1505 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1507 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1508 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1509 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1510 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1511 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1512 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1513 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1514 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1516 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1517 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1519 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1520 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1521 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1522 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1523 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1524 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1525 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1526 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1527 translating to termcap.
1528 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1529 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1532 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1533 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1534 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1535 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1536 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1537 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1539 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1540 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1541 regarding Schilling's test program):
1542 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1543 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1544 + use \040 rather than \s
1545 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1546 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1549 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1550 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1551 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1552 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1553 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1554 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1555 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1556 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1557 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1558 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1559 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1560 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1563 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1564 are not used in the $CC variable.
1565 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1566 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1567 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1568 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1569 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1570 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1573 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1574 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1578 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1579 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1580 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1581 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1582 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1584 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1585 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1587 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1590 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1591 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1594 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1595 + set default prefix to /usr.
1596 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1597 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1598 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1599 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1602 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1603 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1604 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1605 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1607 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1608 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1612 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1615 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1616 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1617 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1619 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1620 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1621 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1622 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1625 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1626 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1627 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1628 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1629 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1630 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1631 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1632 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1633 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1634 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1635 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1638 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1639 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1641 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1642 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1643 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1644 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1647 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1648 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1649 as different types on some Unix systems.
1650 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1651 function pointer passed to tputs().
1652 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1653 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1654 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1655 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1658 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1659 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1660 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1661 + update config.guess, config.sub
1664 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1666 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1667 some ncurses packages.
1668 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1669 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1670 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1672 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1675 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1676 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1677 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1678 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1679 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1680 needed for rpm script.
1681 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1682 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1683 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1686 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1687 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1688 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1689 that sample program.
1690 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1691 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1692 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1693 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1697 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1699 + regen Ada html documentation.
1700 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1701 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1703 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1705 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1706 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1707 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1708 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1709 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1710 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1712 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1713 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1715 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1716 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1719 + regen Ada html documentation.
1720 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1721 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1723 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1724 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1725 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1726 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1727 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1728 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1729 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1730 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1731 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1732 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1733 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1734 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1735 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1736 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1737 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1738 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1739 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1740 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1741 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1744 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1745 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1746 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1748 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1750 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1751 explain.txt is not found.
1754 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1755 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1756 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1757 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1758 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1760 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1763 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1764 + regenerated html manpages.
1765 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1767 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1768 a new install of hashed database.
1769 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1772 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1773 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1774 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1775 wide-character configuration.
1776 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1777 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1780 + regenerated html manpages.
1781 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1782 special case of trace configuration.
1785 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1786 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1787 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1788 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1789 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1793 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1794 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1795 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1796 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1797 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1799 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1800 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1803 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1804 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1805 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1806 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1807 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1808 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1809 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1810 file configuration if that is used.
1811 + update config.guess, config.sub
1814 + regenerated html manpages.
1815 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1817 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1818 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1821 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1822 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1825 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1826 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1827 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1830 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1832 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1833 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1834 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1835 wide-character configuration.
1836 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1837 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1838 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1841 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1842 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1843 version which works with termcap.
1844 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1845 (request by Sven Joachim).
1846 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1847 (report by Sven Joachim).
1850 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1851 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1852 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1855 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1857 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1858 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1861 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1863 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1864 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1865 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1866 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1867 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1868 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1872 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1873 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1874 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1876 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1879 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1881 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1885 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1887 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1888 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1889 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1890 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1891 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1892 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1893 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1894 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1895 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1896 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1897 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1898 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1901 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1902 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1903 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1904 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1905 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1906 external package "cindent".
1909 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1910 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1911 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1912 inconsistent printer-controls.
1913 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1914 form is available -TD
1915 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1917 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1919 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1920 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1921 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1922 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1923 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1925 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1926 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1930 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1931 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1932 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1933 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1934 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1936 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1939 + regenerated html manpages.
1940 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1941 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1942 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1945 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1947 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1948 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1949 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1950 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1954 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1955 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1958 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1959 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1960 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1961 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1962 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1963 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1964 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1968 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1969 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1970 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1971 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1972 by Tim van der Molen).
1973 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1974 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1975 library configuration.
1976 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1977 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1978 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1981 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1983 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1984 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1985 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1986 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1987 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1990 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1991 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1992 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1993 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1994 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1995 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1996 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1997 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2000 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2001 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2002 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2003 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2004 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2005 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2006 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2007 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2010 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2011 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2012 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2013 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2016 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2017 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2018 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2021 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2022 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2023 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2026 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2027 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2028 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2029 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2032 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2033 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2034 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2036 + update Ada95/configure.
2037 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2038 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2039 of updating LIBS variable.
2042 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2043 work with 64-bit compiles.
2044 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2048 + regenerated html documentation.
2049 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2051 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2052 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2053 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2054 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2057 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2058 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2060 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2061 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2062 build- and target-machines differ.
2063 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2064 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2066 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2067 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2070 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2071 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2072 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2073 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2074 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2075 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2076 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2077 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2078 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2079 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2080 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2081 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2082 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2083 found in predefined libraries.
2084 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2087 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2088 (patch by David Benjamin).
2089 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2090 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2091 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2092 may be defined by that route.
2095 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2096 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2097 the predefined include directories.
2098 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2099 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2100 where older versions would produce an error.
2103 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2104 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2105 terminfo to termcap strings
2106 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2107 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2108 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2109 directory was already added.
2110 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2111 directories (which will be ignored).
2114 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2115 + discard motion events
2116 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2117 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2118 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2119 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2122 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2123 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2124 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2125 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2126 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2127 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2128 extended-colors configuration.
2129 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2130 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2131 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2134 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2136 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2137 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2138 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2140 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2141 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2142 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2145 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2146 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2150 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2151 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2152 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2153 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2154 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2155 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2156 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2157 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2158 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2162 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2163 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2164 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2165 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2168 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2170 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2171 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2172 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2175 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2176 making those separately distributable.
2177 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2178 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2182 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2185 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2186 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2187 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2188 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2192 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2193 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2194 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2195 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2198 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2199 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2200 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2201 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2203 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2204 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2205 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2206 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2210 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2211 that line-drawing works.
2212 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2213 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2214 capabilities can run.
2215 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2219 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2220 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2221 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2222 before older in the list.
2223 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2224 + minor documentation cleanup.
2225 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2226 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2227 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2230 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2231 most common case of SGR 0.
2232 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2233 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2234 events remain, it will return ERR.
2237 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2238 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2239 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2240 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2241 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2244 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2245 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2246 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2249 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2250 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2251 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2252 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2253 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2254 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2257 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2258 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2259 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2260 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2261 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2263 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2265 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2267 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2268 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2269 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2271 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2272 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2275 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2276 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2278 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2279 writing terminfo entries.
2280 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2281 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2282 by Nicholas Marriott).
2285 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2287 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2288 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2292 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2293 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2294 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2295 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2296 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2300 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2301 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2302 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2303 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2306 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2307 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2308 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2309 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2310 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2311 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2312 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2315 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2316 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2317 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2318 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2319 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2320 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2321 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2322 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2323 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2324 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2325 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2328 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2329 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2330 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2331 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2334 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2335 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2338 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2339 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2340 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2344 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2345 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2346 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2347 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2348 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2350 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2351 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2354 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2355 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2356 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2357 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2358 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2359 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2361 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2362 library (some work remains for forms library).
2365 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2366 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2367 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2368 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2370 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2371 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2372 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2373 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2376 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2377 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2380 test/test_addchstr.c
2381 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2382 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2383 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2384 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2387 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2389 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2390 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2391 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2392 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2396 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2397 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2398 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2399 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2402 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2403 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2404 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2407 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2410 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2411 broken in 20090510 merging.
2412 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2413 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2414 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2415 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2416 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2417 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2418 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2419 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2421 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2424 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2425 implementation details of hash function.
2428 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2429 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2430 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2433 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2434 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2435 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2436 test/demo_terminfo.c
2437 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2438 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2441 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2442 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2446 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2449 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2451 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2452 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2453 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2454 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2455 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2457 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2458 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2459 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2462 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2463 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2464 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2467 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2468 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2470 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2473 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2474 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2476 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2477 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2481 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2482 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2483 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2486 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2489 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2492 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2493 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2494 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2495 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2498 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2501 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2502 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2503 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2504 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2508 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2511 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2512 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2515 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2518 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2522 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2525 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2526 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2527 part of the form library.
2530 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2531 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2534 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2535 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2536 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2537 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2538 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2539 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2540 a temporary variable.
2541 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2542 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2543 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2544 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2545 with Charles Wilson).
2546 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2547 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2548 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2549 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2550 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2551 digits, after the final '.').
2552 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2553 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2554 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2555 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2556 from 20090321 changes.
2557 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2558 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2559 termlib) is to be linked.
2560 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2561 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2564 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2565 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2566 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2567 (report by Charles Wilson).
2568 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2569 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2570 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2571 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2572 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2575 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2576 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2577 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2578 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2579 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2581 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2582 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2583 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2584 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2585 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2586 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2587 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2588 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2591 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2592 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2593 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2596 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2599 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2601 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2602 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2603 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2604 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2605 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2608 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2609 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2610 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2611 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2612 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2613 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2616 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2617 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2619 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2620 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2621 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2624 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2625 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2626 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2627 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2628 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2629 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2630 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2631 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2632 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2635 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2636 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2638 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2640 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2641 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2644 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2646 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2647 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2648 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2649 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2652 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2653 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2654 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2656 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2657 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2660 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2661 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2662 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2663 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2664 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2665 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2667 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2668 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2670 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2671 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2674 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2675 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2676 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2679 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2680 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2681 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2683 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2684 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2687 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2689 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2690 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2691 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2693 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2694 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2695 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2696 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2697 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2698 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2700 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2701 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2704 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2705 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2706 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2707 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2708 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2709 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2710 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2711 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2712 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2713 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2714 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2717 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2718 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2719 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2720 passing color or video attributes.
2721 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2722 display meta-characters.
2723 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2724 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2725 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2726 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2730 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2731 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2732 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2734 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2737 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2739 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2740 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2742 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2745 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2746 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2747 does not work well on that platform).
2748 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2751 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2752 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2753 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2755 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2756 --disable-database is used.
2757 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2758 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2759 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2760 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2764 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2765 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2766 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2767 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2768 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2769 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2770 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2774 + regenerated html documentation.
2775 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2776 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2777 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2778 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2779 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2780 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2781 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2782 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2785 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2786 works for C/C++ parts).
2787 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2788 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2791 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2792 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2793 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2794 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2795 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2796 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2797 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2798 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2799 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2801 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2802 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2803 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2804 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2805 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2806 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2809 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2810 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2813 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2814 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2815 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2816 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2817 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2818 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2821 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2822 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2825 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2829 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2830 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2831 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2832 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2834 + update test/configure script.
2835 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2836 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2837 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2838 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2839 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2842 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2843 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2845 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2847 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2848 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2849 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2850 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2851 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2852 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2853 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2854 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2855 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2858 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2859 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2860 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2861 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2862 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2863 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2864 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2865 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2866 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2867 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2868 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2872 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2873 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2874 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2875 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2876 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2878 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2879 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2880 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2881 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2882 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2885 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2886 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2887 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2888 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2889 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2890 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2891 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2894 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2898 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2901 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2904 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2905 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2907 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2908 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2909 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2913 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2914 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2916 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2917 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2918 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2919 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2922 + regenerated html documentation.
2923 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2924 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2925 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2926 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2927 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2930 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2931 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2932 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2936 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2937 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2938 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2939 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2940 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2941 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2944 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2945 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2947 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2948 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2949 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2950 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2951 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2952 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2953 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2954 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2955 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2958 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2959 screen which must be updated.
2960 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2961 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2962 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2966 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2967 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2969 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2970 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2971 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2972 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2975 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2976 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2977 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2979 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2983 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2984 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2985 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2988 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2989 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2990 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2991 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2994 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2995 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2997 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2999 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3002 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3003 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3004 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3005 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3006 python-dev2 mailing list).
3009 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3010 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3011 are not associated with a particular screen.
3012 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3013 stdscr to the callback function.
3014 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3015 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3016 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3017 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3018 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3019 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3020 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3024 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3025 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3026 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3027 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3029 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3030 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3031 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3032 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3033 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3036 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3037 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3038 that the 'F' accepts.
3039 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3040 are working concurrently.
3041 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3045 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3046 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3047 _nc_free_and_exit().
3050 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3051 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3054 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3055 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3058 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3059 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3060 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3061 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3064 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3065 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3066 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3067 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3068 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3069 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3071 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3072 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3076 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3077 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3078 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3081 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3082 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3083 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3086 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3087 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3088 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3092 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3093 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3094 "link_test" builds properly.
3095 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3096 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3097 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3098 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3099 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3100 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3101 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3103 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3106 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3110 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3111 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3114 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3116 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3117 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3118 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3121 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3122 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3123 pierre4d2 comments).
3124 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3125 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3126 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3127 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3131 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3132 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3133 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3134 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3135 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3137 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3138 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3139 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3143 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3144 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3147 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3149 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3151 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3155 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3156 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3158 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3159 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3160 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3161 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3162 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3164 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3165 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3168 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3169 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3170 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3171 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3174 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3175 calls within the ncurses library.
3176 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3178 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3179 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3180 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3182 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3183 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3184 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3185 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3186 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3189 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3190 for threaded library (incomplete).
3191 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3192 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3196 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3197 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3198 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3199 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3200 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3201 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3202 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3203 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3204 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3207 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3209 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3210 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3213 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3214 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3215 "\0" followed by a digit.
3216 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3217 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3218 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3219 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3220 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3221 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3222 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3223 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3224 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3227 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3228 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3229 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3230 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3231 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3233 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3234 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3235 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3239 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3240 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3241 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3242 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3243 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3244 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3245 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3246 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3247 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3250 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3251 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3252 + add test/test_getstr.c
3253 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3254 + add test/test_instr.c
3257 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3258 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3259 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3263 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3264 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3265 ".log" to the name and try again.
3266 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3267 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3268 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3269 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3270 --disable-echo option is used.
3271 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3272 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3273 + update config.guess, config.sub
3276 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3277 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3278 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3282 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3283 problems with multi-column characters.
3284 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3285 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3286 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3287 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3288 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3289 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3290 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3293 + add test/demo_panels.c
3294 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3297 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3299 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3300 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3303 + add test/key_name.c
3304 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3305 + update test/configure
3306 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3307 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3308 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3312 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3313 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3314 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3315 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3316 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3317 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3318 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3319 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3320 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3323 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3324 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3325 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3326 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3327 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3328 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3331 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3332 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3334 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3335 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3336 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3337 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3340 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3341 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3342 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3343 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3345 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3347 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3348 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3349 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3350 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3351 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3354 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3355 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3357 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3358 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3359 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3360 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3361 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3362 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3363 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3364 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3365 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3366 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3367 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3370 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3371 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3372 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3373 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3374 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3375 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3376 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3379 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3380 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3381 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3382 Ada95 tree is not built.
3385 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3386 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3387 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3388 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3389 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3390 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3392 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3393 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3394 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3395 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3396 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3397 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3398 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3399 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3400 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3401 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3402 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3403 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3404 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3405 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3406 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3407 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3408 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3409 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3410 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3412 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3413 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3414 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3415 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3416 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3417 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3418 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3419 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3420 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3423 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3424 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3425 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3426 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3427 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3428 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3429 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3430 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3434 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3435 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3436 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3437 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3438 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3442 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3443 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3444 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3445 in the configure script to an error.
3446 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3447 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3448 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3449 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3450 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3452 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3453 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3456 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3457 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3460 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3461 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3463 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3464 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3465 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3466 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3467 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3468 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3469 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3470 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3473 + regenerated html documentation.
3474 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3475 opaque in selected configurations.
3476 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3477 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3478 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3479 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3480 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3481 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3482 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3483 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3484 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3485 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3486 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3488 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3489 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3492 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3493 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3494 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3495 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3496 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3497 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3498 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3499 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3500 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3501 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3502 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3503 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3506 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3508 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3509 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3510 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3512 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3513 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3514 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3515 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3516 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3517 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3518 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3519 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3521 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3522 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3525 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3526 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3528 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3530 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3531 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3532 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3535 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3536 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3537 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3538 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3540 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3541 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3542 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3543 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3544 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3545 no longer relies on it.
3546 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3547 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3548 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3551 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3552 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3555 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3556 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3557 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3558 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3559 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3560 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3561 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3562 its license consistent with ncurses.
3563 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3564 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3565 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3568 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3569 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3570 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3571 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3575 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3576 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3577 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3579 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3580 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3583 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3584 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3585 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3588 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3589 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3590 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3591 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3592 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3593 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3594 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3595 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3596 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3597 to manpages as needed.
3598 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3599 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3602 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3603 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3604 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3605 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3606 + update config.guess, config.sub
3608 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3611 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3612 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3613 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3614 correct nor portable.
3615 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3617 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3618 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3622 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3623 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3624 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3625 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3626 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3627 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3630 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3631 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3632 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3633 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3635 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3636 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3637 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3638 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3639 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3640 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3641 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3642 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3645 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3646 database configuration.
3647 + updates for test/configure script.
3648 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3649 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3651 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3652 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3653 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3654 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3656 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3657 _nc_printf_string().
3658 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3659 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3662 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3663 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3665 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3666 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3670 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3671 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3674 + add test/echochar.c
3675 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3676 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3679 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3680 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3681 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3682 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3685 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3686 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3687 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3689 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3690 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3691 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3692 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3693 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3694 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3695 Ralf S Engelschall).
3696 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3697 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3698 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3699 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3702 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3703 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3704 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3707 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3708 and status line (Alain Bench).
3709 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3710 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3711 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3712 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3715 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3716 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3717 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3718 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3719 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3722 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3723 + updated html documentation.
3724 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3725 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3728 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3729 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3730 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3731 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3732 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3733 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3734 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3735 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3736 by report by Christopher Parker).
3740 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3741 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3742 since it does not really do this -TD
3745 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3746 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3747 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3748 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3751 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3752 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3753 embedded into a termcap description.
3754 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3755 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3756 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3757 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3758 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3761 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3763 + add test/foldkeys.c
3766 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3767 source output (Debian #378783).
3768 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3769 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3770 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3771 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3772 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3773 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3776 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3777 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3778 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3781 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3782 or as a text file if those are not available.
3783 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3784 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3785 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3788 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3789 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3790 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3791 + update config.guess, config.sub
3794 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3795 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3796 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3798 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3799 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3801 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3802 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3803 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3804 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3805 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3806 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3808 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3809 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3810 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3811 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3814 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3815 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3819 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3820 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3822 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3823 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3824 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3825 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3826 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3827 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3830 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3831 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3832 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3833 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3834 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3835 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3836 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3837 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3838 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3839 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3842 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3843 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3844 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3845 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3847 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3850 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3851 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3852 + minor copyright fixes.
3853 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3856 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3857 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3858 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3859 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3860 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3861 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3862 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3863 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3865 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3866 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3867 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3868 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3870 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3873 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3874 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3876 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3877 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3878 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3879 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3881 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3882 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3883 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3884 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3887 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3888 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3889 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3890 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3891 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3892 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3893 + update config.guess, config.sub
3894 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3895 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3896 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3897 function is broken in that implementation.
3900 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3901 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3904 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3905 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3907 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3908 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3910 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3911 reported to implement this feature -TD
3914 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3915 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3918 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3919 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3920 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3921 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3922 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3923 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3924 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3925 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3928 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3929 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3931 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3932 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3935 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3936 (report by Alain Bench).
3937 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3938 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3939 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3940 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3942 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3943 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3944 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3948 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3949 and/or video attributes.
3950 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3951 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3954 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3957 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3958 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3959 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3960 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3961 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3962 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3963 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3964 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3965 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3968 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3969 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3970 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3973 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3974 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3975 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3976 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3977 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3978 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3979 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3980 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3981 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3982 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3985 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3986 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3987 rather than delayed.
3988 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3990 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3991 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3992 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3995 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3997 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3998 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
4001 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
4002 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
4005 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
4006 + suppress line-drawing
4007 + implement max_attributes
4009 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
4010 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
4014 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
4015 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
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