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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 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
50 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
51 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
53 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
54 --disable-database is used.
55 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
56 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
57 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
58 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
62 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
63 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
64 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
65 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
66 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
67 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
68 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
72 + update html documentation.
73 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
74 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
75 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
76 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
77 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
78 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
79 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
80 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
83 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
84 works for C/C++ parts).
85 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
86 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
89 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
90 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
91 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
92 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
93 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
94 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
95 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
96 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
97 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
99 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
100 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
101 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
102 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
103 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
104 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
107 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
108 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
111 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
112 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
113 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
114 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
115 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
116 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
119 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
120 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
123 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
127 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
128 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
129 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
130 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
132 + update test/configure script.
133 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
134 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
135 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
136 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
137 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
140 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
141 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
143 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
145 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
146 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
147 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
148 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
149 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
150 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
151 + update config.guess, config.sub from
152 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
153 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
156 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
157 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
158 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
159 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
160 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
161 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
162 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
163 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
164 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
165 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
166 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
170 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
171 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
172 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
173 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
174 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
176 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
177 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
178 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
179 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
180 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
183 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
184 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
185 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
186 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
187 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
188 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
189 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
192 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
196 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
199 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
202 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
203 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
205 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
206 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
207 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
211 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
212 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
214 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
215 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
216 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
217 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
220 + regenerated html documentation.
221 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
222 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
223 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
224 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
225 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
228 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
229 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
230 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
234 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
235 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
236 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
237 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
238 window which is being used in a wgetch().
239 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
242 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
243 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
245 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
246 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
247 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
248 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
249 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
250 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
251 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
252 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
253 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
256 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
257 screen which must be updated.
258 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
259 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
260 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
264 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
265 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
267 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
269 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
270 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
273 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
274 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
275 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
277 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
281 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
282 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
283 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
286 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
287 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
288 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
289 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
292 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
293 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
295 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
297 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
300 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
301 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
302 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
303 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
304 python-dev2 mailing list).
307 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
308 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
309 are not associated with a particular screen.
310 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
311 stdscr to the callback function.
312 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
313 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
314 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
315 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
316 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
317 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
318 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
322 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
323 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
324 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
325 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
327 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
328 wide-characters with extended-colors.
329 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
330 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
331 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
334 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
335 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
336 that the 'F' accepts.
337 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
338 are working concurrently.
339 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
343 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
344 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
348 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
349 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
352 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
353 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
356 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
357 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
358 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
359 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
362 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
363 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
364 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
365 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
366 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
367 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
369 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
370 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
374 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
375 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
376 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
379 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
380 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
381 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
384 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
385 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
386 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
390 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
391 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
392 "link_test" builds properly.
393 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
394 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
395 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
396 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
397 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
398 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
399 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
401 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
404 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
408 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
409 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
412 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
414 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
415 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
416 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
419 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
420 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
422 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
423 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
424 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
425 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
429 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
430 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
431 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
432 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
433 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
435 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
436 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
437 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
441 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
442 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
445 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
447 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
449 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
453 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
454 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
456 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
457 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
458 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
459 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
460 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
462 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
463 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
466 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
467 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
468 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
469 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
472 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
473 calls within the ncurses library.
474 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
476 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
477 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
478 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
480 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
481 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
482 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
483 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
484 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
487 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
488 for threaded library (incomplete).
489 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
490 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
494 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
495 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
496 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
497 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
498 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
499 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
500 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
501 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
502 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
505 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
507 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
508 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
511 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
512 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
513 "\0" followed by a digit.
514 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
515 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
516 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
517 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
518 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
519 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
520 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
521 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
522 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
525 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
526 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
527 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
528 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
529 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
531 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
532 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
533 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
537 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
538 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
539 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
540 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
541 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
542 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
543 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
544 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
545 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
548 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
549 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
550 + add test/test_getstr.c
551 + add test/test_inwstr.c
552 + add test/test_instr.c
555 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
556 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
557 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
561 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
562 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
563 ".log" to the name and try again.
564 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
565 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
566 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
567 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
568 --disable-echo option is used.
569 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
570 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
571 + update config.guess, config.sub
574 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
575 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
576 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
580 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
581 problems with multi-column characters.
582 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
583 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
584 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
585 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
586 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
587 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
588 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
591 + add test/demo_panels.c
592 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
595 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
597 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
598 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
601 + add test/key_name.c
602 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
603 + update test/configure
604 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
605 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
606 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
610 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
611 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
612 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
613 illustrate how to use mvcur().
614 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
615 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
616 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
617 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
618 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
621 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
622 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
623 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
624 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
625 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
626 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
629 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
630 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
632 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
633 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
634 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
635 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
638 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
639 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
640 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
641 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
643 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
645 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
646 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
647 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
648 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
649 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
652 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
653 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
655 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
656 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
657 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
658 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
659 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
660 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
661 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
662 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
663 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
664 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
665 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
668 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
669 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
670 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
671 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
672 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
673 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
674 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
677 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
678 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
679 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
680 Ada95 tree is not built.
683 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
684 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
685 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
686 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
687 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
688 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
690 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
691 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
692 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
693 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
694 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
695 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
696 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
697 > fixes based on Coverity report:
698 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
699 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
700 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
701 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
702 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
703 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
704 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
705 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
706 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
707 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
708 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
710 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
711 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
712 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
713 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
714 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
715 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
716 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
717 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
718 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
721 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
722 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
723 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
724 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
725 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
726 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
727 + improved install-sh's quoting.
728 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
732 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
733 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
734 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
735 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
736 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
740 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
741 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
742 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
743 in the configure script to an error.
744 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
745 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
746 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
747 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
748 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
750 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
751 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
754 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
755 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
758 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
759 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
761 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
762 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
763 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
764 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
765 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
766 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
767 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
768 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
771 + regenerated html documentation.
772 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
773 opaque in selected configurations.
774 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
775 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
776 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
777 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
778 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
779 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
780 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
781 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
782 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
783 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
784 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
786 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
787 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
790 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
791 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
792 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
793 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
794 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
795 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
796 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
797 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
798 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
799 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
800 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
801 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
804 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
806 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
807 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
808 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
810 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
811 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
812 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
813 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
814 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
815 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
816 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
817 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
819 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
820 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
823 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
824 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
826 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
828 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
829 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
830 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
833 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
834 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
835 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
836 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
838 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
839 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
840 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
841 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
842 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
843 no longer relies on it.
844 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
845 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
846 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
849 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
850 (report by Rong-En Fan).
853 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
854 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
855 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
856 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
857 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
858 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
859 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
860 its license consistent with ncurses.
861 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
862 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
863 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
866 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
867 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
868 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
869 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
873 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
874 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
875 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
877 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
878 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
881 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
882 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
883 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
886 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
887 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
888 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
889 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
890 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
891 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
892 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
893 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
894 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
895 to manpages as needed.
896 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
897 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
900 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
901 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
902 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
903 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
904 + update config.guess, config.sub
906 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
909 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
910 definitions in <wchar.h>.
911 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
912 correct nor portable.
913 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
915 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
916 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
920 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
921 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
922 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
923 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
924 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
925 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
928 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
929 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
930 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
931 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
933 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
934 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
935 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
936 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
937 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
938 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
939 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
940 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
943 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
944 database configuration.
945 + updates for test/configure script.
946 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
947 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
949 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
950 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
951 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
952 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
954 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
956 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
957 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
960 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
961 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
963 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
964 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
968 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
969 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
972 + add test/echochar.c
973 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
974 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
977 + add AUTHORS file -TD
978 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
979 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
980 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
983 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
984 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
985 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
987 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
988 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
989 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
990 for rpath support in versions past 3.
991 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
992 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
994 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
995 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
996 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
997 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1000 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1001 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1002 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1005 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1006 and status line (Alain Bench).
1007 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1008 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1009 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1010 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1013 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1014 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1015 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1016 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1017 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1020 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1021 + updated html documentation.
1022 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1023 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1026 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1027 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1028 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1029 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1030 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1031 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1032 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1033 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1034 by report by Christopher Parker).
1038 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1039 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1040 since it does not really do this -TD
1043 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1044 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1045 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1046 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1049 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1050 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1051 embedded into a termcap description.
1052 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1053 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1054 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1055 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1057 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1060 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1062 + add test/foldkeys.c
1065 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1066 source output (Debian #378783).
1067 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1068 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1069 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1070 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1071 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1072 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1075 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1076 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1077 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1080 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1081 or as a text file if those are not available.
1082 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1083 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1084 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1087 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1088 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1089 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1090 + update config.guess, config.sub
1093 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1094 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1095 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1097 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1098 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1100 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1101 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1102 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1103 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1104 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1105 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1107 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1108 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1109 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1110 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1113 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1114 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1118 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1119 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1121 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1122 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1123 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1124 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1125 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1126 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1129 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1130 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1131 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1132 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1133 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1134 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1135 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1136 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1137 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1138 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1141 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1142 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1143 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1144 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1146 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1149 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1150 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1151 + minor copyright fixes.
1152 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1155 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1156 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1157 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1158 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1159 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1160 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1161 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1162 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1164 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1165 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1166 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1167 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1169 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1172 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1173 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1175 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1176 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1177 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1178 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1180 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1181 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1182 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1183 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1186 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1187 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1188 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1189 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1190 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1191 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1192 + update config.guess, config.sub
1193 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1194 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1195 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1196 function is broken in that implementation.
1199 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1200 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1203 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1204 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1206 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1207 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1209 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1210 reported to implement this feature -TD
1213 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1214 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1217 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1218 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1219 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1220 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1221 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1222 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1223 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1224 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1227 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1228 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1230 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1231 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1234 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1235 (report by Alain Bench).
1236 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1237 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1238 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1239 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1241 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1242 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1243 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1247 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1248 and/or video attributes.
1249 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1250 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1253 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1256 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1257 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1258 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1259 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1260 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1261 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1262 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1263 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1264 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1267 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1268 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1269 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1272 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1273 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1274 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1275 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1276 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1277 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1278 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1279 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1280 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1281 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1284 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1285 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1286 rather than delayed.
1287 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1289 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1290 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1291 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1294 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1296 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1297 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1300 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1301 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1304 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1305 + suppress line-drawing
1306 + implement max_attributes
1308 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1309 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1313 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1314 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1316 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1318 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1319 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1320 etc., when allocating screens.
1323 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1324 this in test/filter.c
1325 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1329 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1330 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1331 + add extension nofilter().
1332 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1333 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1334 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1335 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1336 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1339 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1340 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1341 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1342 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1343 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1344 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1345 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1346 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1347 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1349 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1350 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1351 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1353 + update config.guess and config.sub
1356 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1357 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1358 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1360 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1361 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1362 that was never built in that directory).
1363 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1366 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1368 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1369 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1373 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1374 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1375 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1376 effect of the different functions.
1377 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1381 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1382 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1384 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1388 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1389 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1390 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1392 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1393 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1397 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1398 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1399 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1401 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1402 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1403 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1406 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1407 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1408 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1411 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1412 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1413 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1415 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1416 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1419 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1420 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1421 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1422 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1423 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1424 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1425 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1428 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1429 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1430 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1432 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1433 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1434 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1435 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1436 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1438 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1441 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1444 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1445 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1449 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1450 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1451 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1452 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1453 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1455 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1456 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1459 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1460 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1461 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1462 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1463 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1464 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1465 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1466 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1467 default if it is used.
1468 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1469 --with-abi-version option was used.
1470 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1471 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1472 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1475 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1476 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1477 handlers (Debian #326709).
1480 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1481 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1483 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1486 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1487 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1488 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1489 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1491 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1492 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1495 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1496 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1497 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1498 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1499 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1500 + update llib-l* files.
1503 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1504 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1505 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1506 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1510 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1511 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1512 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1513 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1514 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1515 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1516 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1517 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1518 Konstantin Andreev).
1521 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1522 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1523 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1524 several related cases -TD
1525 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1526 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1528 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1529 resets line-drawing.
1532 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1534 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1535 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1536 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1537 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1538 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1539 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1542 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1543 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1544 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1546 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1547 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1550 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1551 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1552 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1553 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1554 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1555 "make install.data" step.
1556 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1557 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1558 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1559 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1560 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1561 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1562 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1563 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1564 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1565 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1566 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1567 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1568 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1569 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1572 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1575 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1576 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1577 review of Debian package).
1578 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1579 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1580 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1581 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1582 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1584 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1585 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1586 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1587 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1588 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1591 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1592 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1593 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1596 + fixes for termcap support:
1597 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1598 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1599 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1600 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1601 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1603 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1604 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1605 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1606 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1609 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1610 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1611 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1612 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1614 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1618 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1620 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1621 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1624 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1625 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1626 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1627 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1628 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1629 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1630 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1634 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1635 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1636 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1637 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1638 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1639 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1640 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1641 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1642 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1643 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1647 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1648 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1649 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1653 + update config.guess, config.sub
1654 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1655 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1656 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1657 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1658 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1660 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1661 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1662 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1665 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1666 position the mouse to a particular item.
1667 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1668 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1669 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1670 --enable-const option.
1673 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1674 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1675 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1676 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1677 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1678 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1679 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1680 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1681 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1682 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1683 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1686 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1688 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1689 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1692 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1693 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1694 anyone used that configuration.
1695 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1697 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1698 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1701 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1702 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1703 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1705 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1706 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1707 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1710 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1711 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1712 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1716 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1717 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1718 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1719 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1720 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1723 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1725 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1727 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1728 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1729 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1732 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1734 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1735 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1736 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1737 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1738 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1739 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1740 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1741 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1742 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1743 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1744 right (cf: 20040228).
1745 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1746 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1749 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1750 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1751 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1752 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1753 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1754 added (Debian #295083).
1755 + add traces to panel library.
1758 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1759 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1760 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1761 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1762 mouse events in this case.
1763 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1764 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1767 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1768 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1769 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1770 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1771 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1772 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1773 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1774 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1777 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1778 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1779 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1780 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1781 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1782 already been started.
1783 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1784 pair_content() and color_content().
1785 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1786 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1787 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1788 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1789 color pairs which are allowed.
1790 + add a top-level tags rule.
1793 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1794 first calling initscr().
1795 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1796 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1797 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1798 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1799 that are curses-specific.
1800 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1801 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1802 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1803 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1807 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1808 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1809 for leading whitespace.
1810 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1811 where a following line begins in column 1.
1812 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1813 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1816 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1819 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1820 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1821 + update config.guess, config.sub
1822 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1823 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1824 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1825 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1826 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1827 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1828 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1831 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1833 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1834 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1837 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1838 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1839 and attr_set functions.
1842 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1843 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1844 forms-demo to be one character short.
1845 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1846 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1847 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1848 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1851 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1852 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1853 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1854 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1856 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1857 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1860 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1861 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1862 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1863 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1864 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1865 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1866 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1868 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1869 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1871 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1872 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1875 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1876 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1877 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1878 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1879 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1880 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1881 wide-character configuration.
1884 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1885 or multicolumn characters.
1888 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1889 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1890 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1891 use_default_colors() be called first.
1894 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1895 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1896 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1897 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1898 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1899 must be wrapped to a new line.
1900 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1901 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1902 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1903 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1904 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1908 + minor fixes for traces.
1909 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1910 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1911 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1915 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1916 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1917 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1918 and shift-out which seem to work.
1919 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1920 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1923 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1924 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1925 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1926 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1930 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1931 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1932 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1933 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1936 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1937 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1938 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1939 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1940 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1941 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1942 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1943 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1944 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1945 is no longer experimental.
1946 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1947 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1950 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1953 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1954 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1955 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1956 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1957 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1958 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1959 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1960 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1963 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1964 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1965 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1966 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1967 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1968 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1969 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1970 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1973 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1974 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1975 > terminfo updates -TD
1976 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1977 with the common usage of bce/ech
1978 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1982 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1983 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1984 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1985 a help window as well.
1986 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1987 the -d option is set.
1988 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1991 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1993 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1994 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1998 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1999 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2000 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2001 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2002 patch by Hans de Goede)
2003 > terminfo updates -TD
2004 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2005 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2006 + add function-keys to decansi
2007 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2008 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2009 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2012 > terminfo updates -TD
2013 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2014 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2016 + review/update konsole entries
2017 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2018 + correct tsl string in kterm
2021 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2024 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2025 multibyte character.
2026 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2028 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2029 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2030 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2031 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2032 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2033 converting termcap to termcap format.
2034 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2035 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2036 > terminfo updates -TD
2037 + minor fixes for emu
2039 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2044 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2045 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2046 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2047 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2048 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2049 > terminfo updates -TD
2050 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2052 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2053 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2054 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2057 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2058 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2060 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2061 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2062 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2063 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2064 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2065 + update config.guess, config.sub
2066 > terminfo updates -TD
2068 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2069 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2070 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2075 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2076 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2077 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2080 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2081 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2082 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2084 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2088 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2089 field_buffer() results.
2090 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2093 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2095 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2096 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2097 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2098 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2099 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2102 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2103 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2104 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2108 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2109 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2111 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2114 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2115 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2116 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2117 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2118 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2119 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2120 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2121 information without an option.
2122 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2123 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2126 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2129 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2130 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2131 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2132 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2133 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2134 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2135 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2137 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2140 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2141 to an unsigned char.
2142 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2143 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2146 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2149 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2150 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2151 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2152 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2153 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2154 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2155 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2156 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2157 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2158 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2159 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2162 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2163 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2164 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2165 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2168 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2170 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2171 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2174 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2175 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2176 mode is shown in that test.
2177 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2178 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2179 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2182 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2184 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2185 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2186 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2187 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2189 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2190 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2191 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2192 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2195 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2196 (request by Mike Aubury).
2197 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2199 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2201 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2204 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2205 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2206 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2207 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2208 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2209 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2210 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2211 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2212 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2213 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2215 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2218 20040207 pre-release
2219 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2220 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2221 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2222 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2223 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2225 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2226 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2227 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2229 20040131 pre-release
2230 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2231 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2232 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2233 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2234 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2235 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2236 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2237 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2238 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2239 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2240 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2242 20040125 pre-release
2243 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2244 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2245 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2246 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2247 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2248 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2249 modifying the displayed value.
2251 20040124 pre-release
2252 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2253 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2254 that works better for cross-compiling.
2256 20040117 pre-release
2257 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2258 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2259 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2260 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2261 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2262 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2263 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2265 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2266 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2268 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2269 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2270 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2271 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2272 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2273 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2274 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2275 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2276 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2277 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2278 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2279 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2281 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2282 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2283 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2284 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2285 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2286 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2287 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2288 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2290 20040110 pre-release
2291 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2292 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2294 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2295 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2297 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2299 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2300 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2301 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2302 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2303 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2306 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2307 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2308 + add pecho_wchar().
2309 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2310 available) on older platforms.
2313 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2314 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2315 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2316 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2317 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2318 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2319 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2320 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2321 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2324 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2325 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2326 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2327 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2328 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2329 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2333 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2334 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2335 applications do not.
2336 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2337 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2338 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2339 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2340 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2341 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2345 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2346 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2347 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2348 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2349 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2350 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2351 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2352 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2353 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2354 awkward for some cases.
2355 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2356 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2358 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2359 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2360 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2361 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2362 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2366 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2367 values (Philippe Blain).
2368 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2369 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2370 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2374 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2375 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2376 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2377 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2378 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2379 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2383 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2384 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2385 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2387 + update config.guess, config.sub
2390 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2391 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2392 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2393 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2394 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2395 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2396 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2398 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2399 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2400 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2401 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2402 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2405 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2406 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2407 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2408 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2409 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2410 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2411 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2412 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2414 + regenerated html documentation.
2415 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2416 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2417 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2420 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2421 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2422 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2423 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2424 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2425 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2426 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2427 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2431 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2432 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2435 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2436 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2437 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2438 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2440 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2441 (report by Philippe Blain).
2444 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2445 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2446 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2447 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2448 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2449 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2450 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2451 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2452 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2454 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2456 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2457 in the clr_bol logic.
2460 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2461 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2462 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2463 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2464 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2465 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2466 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2467 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2468 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2469 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2470 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2471 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2474 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2475 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2476 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2477 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2480 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2481 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2482 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2483 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2484 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2485 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2486 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2487 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2488 --with-install-prefix is used.
2491 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2492 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2493 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2494 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2497 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2498 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2499 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2500 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2501 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2502 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2503 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2504 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2505 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2508 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2509 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2510 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2511 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2512 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2513 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2514 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2517 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2519 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2520 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2521 the size of the scroll-region.
2522 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2525 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2526 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2527 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2531 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2532 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2533 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2534 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2535 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2537 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2538 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2539 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2540 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2541 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2542 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2543 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2544 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2545 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2546 usage and to prevent circular links.
2547 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2548 (rxvt-color): new alias
2549 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2550 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2551 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2552 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2553 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2554 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2556 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2560 + update config.guess, config.sub
2561 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2562 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2565 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2566 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2567 would not accept gcc warning options.
2568 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2569 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2570 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2571 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2572 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2573 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2574 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2576 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2579 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2580 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2581 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2582 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2583 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2584 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2585 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2586 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2589 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2591 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2592 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2593 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2594 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2597 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2599 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2600 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2601 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2602 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2603 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2604 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2607 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2608 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2609 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2610 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2611 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2612 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2613 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2614 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2616 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2617 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2618 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2619 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2622 + regenerated html manpages.
2623 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2624 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2626 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2627 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2629 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2630 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2633 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2634 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2635 + add tkterm entry -TD
2636 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2637 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2638 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2639 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2641 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2642 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2643 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2645 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2646 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2647 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2650 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2651 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2652 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2653 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2655 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2656 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2657 current test programs.
2658 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2659 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2660 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2661 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2663 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2664 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2665 mentioned in the terminfo.
2666 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2667 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2670 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2671 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2672 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2673 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2674 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2675 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2676 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2677 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2680 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2681 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2682 the editing position before making modifications.
2683 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2684 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2685 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2688 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2689 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2690 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2691 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2693 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2694 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2695 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2696 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2697 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2698 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2701 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2702 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2703 code, from recent rewrite.
2704 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2706 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2707 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2710 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2711 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2712 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2713 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2716 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2717 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2719 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2722 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2724 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2725 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2727 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2728 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2729 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2732 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2733 a file when ^W is given.
2734 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2738 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2739 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2740 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2741 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2742 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2743 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2744 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2745 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2749 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2750 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2751 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2754 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2755 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2756 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2757 baudrate was not known.
2758 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2759 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2760 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2761 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2762 corresponding capability might be
2764 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2765 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2766 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2767 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2770 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2771 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2772 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2773 apparently typedef'd.
2774 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2775 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2778 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2779 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2780 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2781 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2782 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2783 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2784 cached for reallocating.
2787 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2788 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2789 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2791 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2792 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2793 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2794 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2795 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2796 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2797 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2798 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2801 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2802 emx-base to the latter -TD
2803 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2804 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2807 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2808 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2809 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2810 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2811 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2814 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2815 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2816 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2817 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2818 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2819 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2820 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2822 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2823 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2824 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2825 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2826 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2829 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2830 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2831 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2832 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2833 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2834 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2836 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2837 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2838 is indeed a "blank".
2839 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2840 sections as small as one line.
2841 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2843 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2844 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2845 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2848 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2849 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2852 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2853 (report by Philippe Blain).
2854 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2855 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2856 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2857 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2858 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2860 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2861 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2862 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2863 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2864 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2865 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2868 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2869 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2871 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2872 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2874 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2875 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2876 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2877 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2880 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2881 overridden from the environment.
2882 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2883 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2884 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2885 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2886 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2887 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2888 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2889 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2890 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2891 by Sam Varshavchik).
2892 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2893 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2894 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2895 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2897 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2898 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2899 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2900 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2901 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2904 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2905 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2906 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2907 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2908 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2909 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2910 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2911 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2912 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2913 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2914 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2915 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2916 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2917 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2918 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2919 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2920 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2921 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2922 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2923 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2924 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2925 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2926 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2929 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2930 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2931 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2932 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2933 winsch() internal function.
2934 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2935 more than one spacing character.
2938 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2939 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2940 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2941 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2942 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2943 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2944 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2945 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2946 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2947 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2950 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2951 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2952 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2953 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2954 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2955 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2956 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2959 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2960 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2961 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2962 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2964 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2965 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2966 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2967 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2968 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2971 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2972 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2973 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2974 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2975 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2976 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2977 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2978 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2979 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2980 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2981 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2982 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2983 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2984 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2985 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2986 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2987 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2990 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2991 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2992 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2993 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2994 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2995 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2996 Frederic L W Meunier).
2998 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2999 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3000 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3001 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3002 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3003 the debug trace in that case.
3004 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3005 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3006 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3007 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3009 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3010 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3012 20021005 pre-release
3013 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3014 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3015 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3016 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3017 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3018 formats such as "%.*s".
3019 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3020 (report Floyd Davidson).
3021 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3023 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3024 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3025 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3027 20020928 pre-release
3028 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3029 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3030 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3032 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3033 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3034 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3035 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3036 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3037 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3038 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3039 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3040 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3041 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3042 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3043 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3044 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3045 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3046 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3047 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3048 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3049 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3050 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3052 20020921 pre-release
3053 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3054 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3055 result in core dump.
3056 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3057 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3058 delimiter rather than '@'.
3059 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3060 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3061 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3062 to the lines given for the destination window.
3064 20020914 pre-release
3065 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3066 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3067 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3068 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3069 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3070 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3071 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3072 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3073 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3074 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3075 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3076 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3078 20020907 pre-release
3079 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3080 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3081 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3082 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3083 html manpages on Debian.
3084 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3085 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3086 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3087 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3088 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3089 a variable from the stack.
3090 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3092 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3093 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3094 _idcok window fields.
3095 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3097 20020901 pre-release
3098 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3099 + update config.guess, config.sub
3100 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3101 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3103 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3104 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3105 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3106 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3107 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3108 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3109 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3110 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3111 use in resizeterm().
3112 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3113 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3114 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3115 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3116 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3117 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3118 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3119 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3120 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3121 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3122 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3126 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3127 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3128 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3129 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3130 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3131 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3134 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3135 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3136 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3137 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3138 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3139 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3140 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3141 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3142 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3144 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3145 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3149 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3150 when translating to termcap.
3151 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3152 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3153 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3155 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3157 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3158 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3160 + document TABSIZE variable.
3161 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3162 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3163 assume_default_colors().
3164 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3166 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3167 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3168 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3169 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3170 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3173 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3175 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3176 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3178 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3179 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3180 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3183 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3185 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3188 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3189 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3190 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3191 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3192 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3193 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3194 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3195 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3196 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3197 configure definitions.
3198 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3199 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3200 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3201 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3202 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3203 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3204 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3205 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3206 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3207 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3208 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3211 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3212 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3213 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3214 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3215 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3216 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3217 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3219 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3220 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3221 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3222 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3225 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3226 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3227 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3228 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3230 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3231 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3232 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3235 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3236 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3238 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3239 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3240 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3242 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3243 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3244 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3245 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3247 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3248 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3249 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3250 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3254 + add charset to generated html.
3255 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3256 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3257 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3258 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3259 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3260 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3264 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3265 key code in get_wch().
3266 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3267 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3268 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3269 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3270 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3271 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3274 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3275 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3277 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3278 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3279 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3280 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3283 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3284 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3285 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3286 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3287 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3288 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3289 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3290 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3291 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3292 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3295 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3299 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3300 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3301 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3302 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3303 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3304 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3305 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3308 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3309 character versions as well.
3310 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3312 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3314 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3315 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3316 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3317 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3318 if gettimeofday() is available.
3321 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3322 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3325 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3327 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3328 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3329 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3330 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3331 + update config.guess, config.sub
3334 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3335 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3336 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3337 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3338 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3339 alias for 'function'.
3342 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3343 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3347 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3348 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3349 + implement win_wchnstr().
3350 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3351 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3354 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3355 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3358 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3359 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3362 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3363 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3364 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3366 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3367 + implement unget_wch().
3368 + implement wget_wch().
3371 + regenerated html manpages.
3372 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3373 + implement wins_wch().
3374 + implement win_wch().
3375 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3378 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3379 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3382 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3383 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3384 + implement key_name().
3385 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3387 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3391 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3392 in spurious symlinks on install.
3395 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3396 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3397 box() and box_set() functions.
3398 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3399 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3400 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3401 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3402 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3403 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3404 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3406 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3408 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3409 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3410 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3411 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3413 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3414 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3417 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3418 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3420 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3424 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3426 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3427 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3428 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3429 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3430 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3431 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3432 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3433 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3434 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3435 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3436 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3437 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3438 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3439 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3440 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3443 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3444 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3447 + update config.guess, config.sub
3448 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3449 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3452 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3453 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3454 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3456 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3457 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3459 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3460 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3461 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3462 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3465 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3468 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3469 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3470 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3471 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3472 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3473 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3474 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3475 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3476 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3478 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3479 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3480 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3482 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3484 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3485 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3486 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3487 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3488 work with SunOS nawk.
3489 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3491 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3492 case it uses multiple tokens.
3495 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3496 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3497 interrupted by that signal.
3498 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3499 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3500 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3501 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3503 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3504 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3505 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3506 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3507 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3510 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3512 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3513 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3514 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3515 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3516 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3517 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3518 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3519 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3522 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3523 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3524 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3525 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3526 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3527 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3528 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3529 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3530 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3533 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3534 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3535 may have different keypad() settings.
3536 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3537 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3538 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3539 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3540 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3541 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3542 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3543 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3545 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3546 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3547 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3548 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3552 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3554 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3555 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3556 implementation in cygwin package).
3557 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3558 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3560 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3561 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3562 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3563 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3564 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3565 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3566 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3567 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3568 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3570 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3571 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3572 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3573 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3574 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3575 <jevans@apple.com>).
3576 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3577 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3578 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3579 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3580 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3584 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3585 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3586 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3587 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3588 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3589 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3590 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3591 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3592 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3593 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3596 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3599 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3600 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3601 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3602 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3603 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3606 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3607 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3610 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3611 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3612 + implement wecho_wchar()
3613 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3614 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3615 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3617 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3618 in a trace by using curly braces.
3619 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3620 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3621 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3622 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3625 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3626 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3627 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3628 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3629 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3633 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3634 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3635 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3636 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3637 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3638 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3639 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3640 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3644 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3645 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3646 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3647 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3648 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3649 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3650 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3651 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3652 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3655 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3656 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3659 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3660 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3661 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3662 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3663 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3664 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3666 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3667 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3669 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3670 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3673 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3674 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3675 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3676 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3677 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3679 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3680 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3682 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3683 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3684 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3685 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3686 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3689 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3690 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3692 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3693 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3694 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3695 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3698 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3699 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3700 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3701 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3702 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3706 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3707 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3708 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3710 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3712 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3714 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3716 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3717 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3718 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3719 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3720 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3721 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3722 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3723 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3724 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3728 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3729 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3730 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3731 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3732 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3733 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3734 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3735 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3736 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3737 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3739 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3740 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3741 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3742 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3743 supports xterm mouse controls.
3744 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3745 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3746 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3747 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3748 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3749 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3750 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3751 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3752 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3753 AX in a color xterm.
3754 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3758 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3759 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3760 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3761 + added llib-ncursesw.
3764 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3765 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3766 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3767 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3768 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3769 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3770 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3771 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3772 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3773 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3774 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3775 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3776 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3777 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3778 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3779 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3780 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3781 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3782 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3783 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3786 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3787 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3788 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3791 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3792 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3793 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3794 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3795 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3796 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3797 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3798 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3799 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3800 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3801 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3802 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3806 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3807 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3808 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3809 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3810 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3811 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3812 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3815 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3816 new wide-character structures.
3817 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3818 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3819 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3820 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3821 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3825 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3827 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3828 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3829 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3831 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3832 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3833 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3836 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3837 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3838 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3841 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3842 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3843 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3844 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3845 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3846 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3847 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3850 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3851 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3852 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3853 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3854 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3855 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3856 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3857 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3858 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3861 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3862 which may be in libutf8.
3863 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3864 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3865 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3866 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3867 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3868 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3869 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3870 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3871 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3872 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3873 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3876 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3877 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3880 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3881 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3882 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3883 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3884 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3886 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3887 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3888 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3889 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3890 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3891 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3892 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3893 are used to manipulate attributes.
3894 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3895 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3896 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3897 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3898 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3899 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3901 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3902 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3903 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3904 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3905 we are using chtype data.
3906 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3908 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3910 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3911 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3912 where a pointer would be more useful.
3913 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3914 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3915 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3916 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3917 passing cchar_t's by address.
3918 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3919 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3920 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3921 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3922 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3923 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3924 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3925 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3928 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3929 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3930 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3931 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3932 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3934 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3935 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3936 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3939 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3940 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3941 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3942 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3943 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3944 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3945 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
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