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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1056 2006/12/17 20:36:26 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20120310
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
+ + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
+ + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
+
+20120303
+ + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
+ regarding mapping of \0 to \200
+ + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
+ loops.
+ + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
+ calls to setupterm().
+ + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
+ debug-trace.
+ > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
+ + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
+ + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
+ runtime linker
+ + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
+ fallback entries
+
+20120228
+ + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20120225
+ + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
+ cross-compiling.
+ + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
+ strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
+ about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
+ + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
+ reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
+ + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
+ (cf:20111231)
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20120218
+ + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
+ the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
+ + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
+ mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
+ + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
+ broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
+ + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
+ + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
+ depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
+
+20120211
+ + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
+ + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
+ Linux versus most other systems.
+
+20120204
+ + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
+ better diagnostics.
+
+20120128
+ + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
+ + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
+ + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
+ + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
+ + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
+ give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
+ consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
+ (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20120121
+ + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
+ of OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
+ port.
+ + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
+ path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
+ directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
+ + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+
+20120114
+ + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
+ Linux Mint forum):
+ + modify movement commands to make them continuous
+ + rewrote the test for mvderwin
+ + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
+ + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
+ + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
+ and OpenBSD.
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+
+20120107
+ + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
+ + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ + change recommended regular expression library.
+ + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
+ + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
+
+20111231
+ + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
+ a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
+ + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
+ + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
+ caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
+ + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
+ given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
+ by Sven Joachim).
+
+20111224
+ + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
+ with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
+ analysis.
+ + add putty-sco entry -TD
+
+20111217
+ + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
+ was not being used.
+ + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
+ could use.
+ + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
+ are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
+ the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
+ and termlib.
+ + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
+ enabled.
+ + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
+
+20111210
+ + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
+ pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
+ + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
+ for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
+ _SGI_SOURCE.
+ + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
+ tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
+ + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
+
+20111203
+ + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
+ copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
+ Debian #646977).
+ + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
+
+20111126
+ + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
+ (cf: 20111001).
+ + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
+ absolute pathname.
+ + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
+ use.
+ + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
+ + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
+ generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
+ been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
+ + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
+ ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
+ from patch by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20111119
+ + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
+ from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
+ (cf: 20110416)
+ + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
+ i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
+ to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
+ database (cf: 20111001).
+
+20111112
+ + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
+ + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
+ 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
+ C++ header files.
+ + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
+ e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
+ by Robert Millan).
+ + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
+ in older FreeBSD machines.
+ + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
+ _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
+ + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
+
+20111030
+ + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
+ directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
+ where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
+ new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
+ root's home directory.
+ + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
+ config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
+ + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
+ accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
+ + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
+ interdependencies.
+ + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
+ compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
+ This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
+ binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
+ incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
+ (report by Peter Kruse).
+
+20111022
+ + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
+ events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
+ (cf: 20110917).
+ + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
+ gnat does not work.
+ + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
+ internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
+ uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
+
+20111015
+ + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
+ clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
+ option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
+ "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
+ + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
+
+20111008
+ + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
+ + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
+ + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
+ of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
+ other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
+
+20111001
+ + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
+ source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
+ input and output of termcap source.
+ + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
+ making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
+ + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
+ text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
+ + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
+ conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
+ normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
+ message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
+ + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
+
+20110925
+ + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
+
+20110924
+ + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
+ filesystem.
+ + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
+ + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
+ TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
+ to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
+ Alcock aka "Nix").
+ + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
+
+20110917
+ + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
+ + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
+ Guibouret).
+ + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
+ (patch by Damien Guibouret).
+
+20110910
+ + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
+ the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
+ (cf: 20110716).
+ + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
+ of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
+ cf: 20100102).
+ + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
+ + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
+ the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
+ the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+ + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
+ FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
+ + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
+ show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
+ is used.
+ + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
+ --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
+
+20110903
+ + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
+ increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
+ by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
+ + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20110820
+ + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
+ not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
+ + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
+ + add terminator entry -TD
+ + add simpleterm entry -TD
+ + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
+ null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
+ (cf: 20110528).
+
+20110813
+ + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
+ + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
+ database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
+ + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
+ entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
+ guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
+ the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
+ + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
+ accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
+ + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
+ error-return.
+
+20110807
+ + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
+ variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
+ + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
+ + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
+ + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
+ + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
+ from tic/infocmp.
+ + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
+ field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
+ + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
+ use a single line.
+ + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
+
+20110730
+ + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
+ directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
+ around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
+ + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
+ for termcap output.
+ + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
+ "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
+ features:
+ + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
+ + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
+ termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
+ + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
+ + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
+ there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
+ + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
+ + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
+ freed memory.
+ + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
+ values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
+ positive.
+ + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
+ feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
+ tctest (cf: 19991211).
+ + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
+ from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
+ + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
+ a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
+ + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
+ translating to termcap.
+ + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
+ getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
+
+20110723
+ + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
+ extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
+ the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
+ + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
+ (Yuri Pankov).
+ + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
+ to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
+ regarding Schilling's test program):
+ + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
+ + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
+ + use \040 rather than \s
+ + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
+ + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
+
+20110716
+ + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
+ pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
+ + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
+ PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+ + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
+ + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
+ + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
+ + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
+ + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
+ + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
+ definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20110702
+ + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
+ are not used in the $CC variable.
+ + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
+ 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
+ + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
+ + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
+ works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
+ at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+
+20110626
+ + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
+ is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
+ Sven Joachim).
+
+20110625
+ + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
+ exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
+ comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
+ tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
+ Sergio NNX).
+ + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
+ + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
+ ripoffline().
+ + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
+
+20110611
+ + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
+ + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
+
+20110604
+ + fixes for MirBSD port:
+ + set default prefix to /usr.
+ + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
+ + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
+ + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
+
+20110528
+ + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
+ + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
+ not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
+ to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
+ #707344).
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
+ with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
+ pointers, etc.
+
+20110521
+ + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
+
+20110514
+ + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
+ + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
+ + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
+ configure script:
+ + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
+ test-expression to be omitted from executable.
+ + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
+ help work around weak-symbol issues.
+
+20110507
+ + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
+ script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
+ there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
+ (report by Gunter Schaffler).
+ + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
+ "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
+ + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
+ configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
+ ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
+ + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
+ (report by Joachim Schmitz).
+
+20110430
+ + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
+ is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
+ Boulenguez):
+ + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
+ undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
+ to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
+ warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
+
+20110423
+ + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
+ + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
+ as different types on some Unix systems.
+ + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
+ function pointer passed to tputs().
+ + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
+ assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
+ + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
+ assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
+
+20110416
+ + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
+ the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
+ and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20110409
+ + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
+ Kolesen).
+ + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
+ some ncurses packages.
+ + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
+ + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
+ test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
+
+20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20110402
+ + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
+ + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
+ packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
+ the in-tree build of sample programs.
+ + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
+ needed for rpm script.
+ + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
+ making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
+ options if building a shared library with gnat.
+
+20110329
+ > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
+ + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
+ needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
+ that sample program.
+ + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
+ + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
+ which were added in 5.7 and later.
+ + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
+ upon GNU sed.
+
+20110326
+ + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
+ code.
+ + regen Ada html documentation.
+ + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
+ + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
+ builds.
+ + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
+ CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS.
+ + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
+ libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
+ + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
+ + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
+ + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
+ package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
+ Pavlu).
+ > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
+ + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
+ pragmas.
+ + suppress unreferenced warnings.
+ + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
+
+20110319
+ + regen Ada html documentation.
+ + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
+ --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
+ is listed first.
+ + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
+ + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
+ Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
+ distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+ + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the
+ CFLAGS for the build has these options.
+ + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
+ and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
+ thread in comp.lang.ada).
+ + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
+ + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
+ > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
+ + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
+ + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
+ The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
+ implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
+ + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
+ + add Library_Options to library.gpr
+ + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
+
+20110307
+ + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
+ > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
+ + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
+ conform to form.h.
+ + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
+ fieldtype(3FORM).
+ + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
+ explain.txt is not found.
+
+20110305
+ + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+ + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
+ for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+ + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
+ needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
+
+20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20110226
+ + update release notes, for 5.8.
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
+ with write_file().
+ + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
+ a new install of hashed database.
+ + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
+
+20110220
+ + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
+ + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
+ configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
+ wide-character configuration.
+ + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
+ + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
+
+20110212
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
+ special case of trace configuration.
+
+20110205
+ + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
+ + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
+ support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
+ + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
+ extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
+ discussion).
+
+20110122
+ + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
+ + correct limit-checks in derwin().
+ + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
+ size (report by Garrett Cooper).
+ + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
+ Alcock).
+ + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
+ by discussion with Kevin Martin).
+
+20110115
+ + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
+ work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
+ + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
+ + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+ + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+ + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
+ + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
+ file configuration if that is used.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20110108
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
+ clang --analyze.
+ + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
+
+20110101
+ + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
+ except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
+
+20101225
+ + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
+ allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+
+20101211
+ + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
+ R Sedeno).
+ + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
+ + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
+ characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
+ wide-character configuration.
+ + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
+ + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
+ referred to quitting with 'q'.
+
+20101204
+ + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
+ strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
+ version which works with termcap.
+ + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
+ (request by Sven Joachim).
+ + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20101128
+ + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
+ case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
+ mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
+
+20101127
+ + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
+ out-of-tree.
+ + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
+ + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
+
+20101120
+ + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
+ changes.
+ + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
+ e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
+ rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
+ + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
+ for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
+ library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
+ since 2003 -TD
+
+20101113
+ + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
+ + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
+ + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
+ #267 changes.
+ + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
+
+20101106
+ + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
+ a separate package.
+ + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
+ package.
+
+20101023
+ + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
+ Philip Ganchev).
+ + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
+ when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
+ more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
+ + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
+ warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
+ scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
+ tree (report by Werner Fink).
+ + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
+ + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
+ which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
+ (report by John P. Hartmann)
+ + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
+
+20101009
+ + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
+ entry (Novell #644831) -TD
+ + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
+ gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
+ + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
+ external package "cindent".
+
+20101002
+ + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
+ pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
+ + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
+ inconsistent printer-controls.
+ + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
+ form is available -TD
+ + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
+ ANSI -TD
+ + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
+ Sven Joachim).
+ + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
+ + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
+ + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+ + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
+ distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
+ in mingw_arch
+
+20100925
+ + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
+ xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
+ special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
+ README.MinGW).
+ + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
+
+20100918
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
+ + add manpage for sp-funcs.
+ + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
+
+20100911
+ + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
+ and form-libraries.
+ + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
+ (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
+ + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
+ platforms.
+
+20100904
+ + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
+ programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20100828
+ + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
+ + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
+ message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
+ description (prompted by Debian #593920).
+ + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
+ descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
+ + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
+ Sittler).
+
+20100814
+ + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
+ the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
+ (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
+ + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
+ by Tim van der Molen).
+ + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
+ tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
+ library configuration.
+ + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
+ directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
+ + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
+
+20100807
+ + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
+ (cf: 20100724)
+ + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
+ used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
+ e.g., for cross-compiling.
+ + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
+ + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
+
+20100731
+ + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
+ special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
+ (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
+ + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
+ is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+ + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
+ + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
+ http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
+
+20100724
+ + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
+ + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
+ it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
+ (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
+ + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
+ after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
+ + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
+ GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
+
+20100717
+ + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
+ the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
+ + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
+ Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
+
+20100703
+ + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
+ + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
+ + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
+
+20100626
+ + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
+ + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
+ work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
+
+20100619
+ + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
+ + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
+ + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
+ will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
+
+20100612
+ + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
+ + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
+ + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
+ /usr/lib/ada).
+ + update Ada95/configure.
+ + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
+ + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
+ of updating LIBS variable.
+
+20100605
+ + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
+ work with 64-bit compiles.
+ + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
+ (cf: 20081227)
+
+20100529
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
+ used by PDCurses.
+ + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
+ assignments to $LIBS, etc.
+ + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
+ and --enable-weak-symbols options.
+
+20100522
+ + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
+ adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
+ Pierre Labastie).
+ + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
+ the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
+ build- and target-machines differ.
+ + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
+ variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
+ are used.
+ + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
+ variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
+
+20100515
+ + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
+ new EINTR feature is enabled.
+ + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
+ a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
+ + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
+ + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
+ "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
+ Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
+ feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
+ with the standard builds of ncurses.
+ + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
+ + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
+ + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
+ found in predefined libraries.
+ + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
+
+20100501
+ + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
+ (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
+ + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
+ included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
+ may be defined by that route.
+
+20100424
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+ + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
+ the predefined include directories.
+ + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
+ with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
+ where older versions would produce an error.
+
+20100417
+ + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
+ + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
+ terminfo to termcap strings
+ + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
+ which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
+ + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
+ directory was already added.
+ + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
+ directories (which will be ignored).
+
+20100410
+ + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
+ + discard motion events
+ + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
+ + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
+ + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
+ cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
+
+20100403
+ + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
+ + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
+ environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
+ (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
+ + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
+ + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
+ extended-colors configuration.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
+ + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
+ configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
+
+20100327
+ + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
+ reusable.
+ + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
+ + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
+ (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
+ given library.
+ + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
+ normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
+ Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
+
+20100320
+ + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
+ newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
+ Hourihane).
+
+20100313
+ + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
+ install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
+ option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
+ + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
+ compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
+ ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
+ + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
+ TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
+ Kaseorg).
+
+20100306
+ + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
+ (suggested by Sven Joachim).
+ + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
+ va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
+
+20100227
+ + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
+ Ada95/make-tar.sh
+ + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
+ model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
+
+20100220
+ + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
+ making those separately distributable.
+ + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
+ + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
+ Schwarze).
+
+20100213
+ + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
+
+20100206
+ + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
+ + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
+ to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20100130
+ + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
+ + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
+ + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20100123
+ + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
+ initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
+ + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
+ OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
+ _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
+ by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+
+20100116
+ + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
+ that line-drawing works.
+ + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
+ such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
+ capabilities can run.
+ + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
+ declarations.
+
+20100109
+ + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
+ consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
+ + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
+ before older in the list.
+ + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
+ + minor documentation cleanup.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+ (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
+
+20100102
+ + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
+ most common case of SGR 0.
+ + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
+ each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
+ events remain, it will return ERR.
+
+20091227
+ + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
+ first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
+ "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
+ 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
+ ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
+
+20091226
+ + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
+ + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
+
+20091219
+ + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
+ window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
+ (report by Katarina Machalkova).
+ + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
+ + update minix terminfo entry -TD
+ + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
+
+20091212
+ + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
+ field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
+ filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
+ + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
+ + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
+ nulls.
+ + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
+ failure.
+ + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
+ tset.c per
+ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
+ (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
+ Nicholas Marriott).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+
+20091205
+ + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
+ wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
+ Garrido Fernandez)
+ + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
+ writing terminfo entries.
+ + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
+ a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
+ by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20091128
+ + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
+ is enabled.
+ + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
+ enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
+ this.
+
+20091121
+ + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
+ requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
+ rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
+ + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
+ + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
+
+20091114
+
+ + updated man/curs_trace.3x
+ + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
+ + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
+ value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20091107
+ + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
+ and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
+ + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
+ library which help make it compatible with interop applications
+ (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
+ for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
+
+20091031
+ + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
+ as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
+ (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
+ + add START_TRACE in slk_init
+ + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
+ soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
+ + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
+ false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
+ + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
+ discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
+ + add test/xterm-256color.dat
+
+20091024
+ + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
+ + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
+ SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
+ (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
+
+20091017
+ + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
+ a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
+
+20091010
+ + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
+ + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
+ + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
+ as in lib_screen.c
+
+20091003
+ + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
+ and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
+ + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
+ + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
+ > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
+ + add linux-16color
+ + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
+ + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
+
+20090927
+ + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
+ that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
+ + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
+ terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
+ more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
+ termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
+ be enabled.
+ + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
+ library (some work remains for forms library).
+
+20090919
+ + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
+ + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
+ (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
+ + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
+ changes.
+ + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
+ Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
+ + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
+ bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
+
+20090912
+ + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
+ by sharing linedata.h functions):
+ test/test_addstr.c
+ test/test_addwstr.c
+ test/test_addchstr.c
+ test/test_add_wchstr.c
+ + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
+ inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
+ did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
+
+20090906
+ + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
+ work.
+ + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
+ + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
+ (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
+ + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
+ enabled.
+
+20090905
+ + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
+ agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090829
+ + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
+ amd64 (Debian #542031).
+ + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
+
+20090822
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090815
+ + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
+ broken in 20090509 merging.
+ + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
+ in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
+ + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
+ help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
+ $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
+ compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
+ + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
+ enable-type switch.
+ + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20090808
+ + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
+ implementation details of hash function.
+
+20090803
+ + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
+ + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
+ from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
+
+20090801
+ + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
+ cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
+ + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
+ test/demo_terminfo.c
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
+
+20090728
+ + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
+ string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
+ cf: 20090711).
+
+20090725
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090718
+ + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
+ 20070704 changes.
+ + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
+ + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
+ change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
+ + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
+ differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
+ values.
+ + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
+ which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
+ + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
+
+20090711
+ + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
+ + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
+ + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
+
+20090704
+ + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
+ + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
+ unctrl().
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090627
+ + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
+ + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
+ option.
+ + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
+ integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
+ MinGW.
+
+20090613
+ + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
+ make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090607
+ + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
+
+20090606
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090530
+ + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
+ using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
+ + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090523
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090516
+ + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
+ SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
+ + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
+ its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
+ #528374).
+
+20090510
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090502
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
+
+20090425
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090419
+ + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
+ Christian Ebert).
+
+20090418
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090411
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
+ part of the form library.
+
+20090404
+ + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
+ Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
+
+20090328
+ + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
+ function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
+ + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
+ by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
+ + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
+ + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
+ a temporary variable.
+ + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
+ library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
+ Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
+ + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
+ with Charles Wilson).
+ + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
+ + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
+ > patches by Charles Wilson:
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
+ version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
+ digits, after the final '.').
+ + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
+ intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
+ using that in the libtool link-commands.
+ + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
+ from 2009031 changes.
+ + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
+ LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
+ termlib) is to be linked.
+ + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
+ enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
+
+20090321
+ + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
+ build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
+ (report by Charles Wilson).
+ + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
+ the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
+ for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
+ "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
+
+20090314
+ + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
+ dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
+ such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
+ Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
+ list).
+ + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
+ Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
+ does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
+ (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
+ + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
+ + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
+ + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
+ changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
+
+20090228
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
+ enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
+
+20090221
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090214
+ + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
+ extended functions.
+ + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
+ curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
+ some internals work is needed to complete these).
+ + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
+
+20090207
+ + update several configure macros from lynx changes
+ + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
+ + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
+ + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + make it work with $DESTDIR
+ + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
+
+20090124
+ + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
+ the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
+ Giaquinta).
+ + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
+ + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
+ gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
+
+20090117
+ + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
+ *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
+ dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
+ + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
+ character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
+ done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
+ multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
+ (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
+ http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
+
+20090110
+ + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
+ + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
+ directory.
+ + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
+ adacurses-config
+ + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
+ such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
+
+20090105
+ + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
+ prefix variable.
+ + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
+ --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
+ subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
+ (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20090104
+ + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
+ deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
+ for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
+ account.
+ + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
+ used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
+
+20090103
+ + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
+ CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
+ + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
+ with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
+ for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
+ + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
+ option.
+ + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
+ configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
+ options.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+
+20081227
+ + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
+ + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
+ on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
+
+20081220
+ + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
+ --disable-ext-funcs is used.
+ + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
+ wrapping.
+ + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
+ + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
+
+20081213
+ + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
+ (GenToo #245370).
+ + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
+ the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
+ + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
+ GenToo #250454).
+ + fixes from NetBSD port at
+ http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
+ patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
+ patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
+ + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
+ by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
+ search-lists.
+ + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
+ OpenBSD documentation/6019),
+
+20081206
+ + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
+ work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
+ + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
+ set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
+ + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
+ than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
+ ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
+ was xterm's alternate screen feature).
+ + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
+ zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
+ adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
+
+20081129
+ + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
+ character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
+ obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
+ passing color or video attributes.
+ + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
+ display meta-characters.
+ + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
+ + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
+ + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
+ displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
+ Ricardo Cantu).
+
+20081122
+ + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
+ Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
+ by Mike Dennison).
+ + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
+
+20081115
+ + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
+ clear-all-tabs -TD
+ + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
+ + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20081025
+ + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
+ + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
+ does not work well on that platform).
+ + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
+
+20081018
+ + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
+ in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
+ Nit Khair).
+ + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
+ --disable-database is used.
+ + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
+ to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
+ (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
+ + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
+ CF_LIBUTF8.
+
+20081012
+ + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
+ original to teraterm2.3 -TD
+ + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
+ + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
+ + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
+ + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
+ + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
+ overlooked til now.
+
+20081011
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
+ the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+ + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
+ + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
+ + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
+ + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
+ tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
+ 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
+
+20081004
+ + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
+ works for C/C++ parts).
+ + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
+ AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
+
+20080927
+ + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
+ strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
+ + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
+ + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
+ GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
+ + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
+ "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
+ that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
+ + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
+ + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
+ + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
+ slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
+
+20080925
+ + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
+ Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080920
+ + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
+ + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
+ + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
+ newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
+ + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
+ misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
+
+20080913
+ + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
+ + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
+
+20080907
+ + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+
+20080906
+ + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
+ + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
+ use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
+ + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
+ Meunier).
+ + update test/configure script.
+ + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
+ is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
+ + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
+ test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
+ fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
+
+20080830
+ + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
+ + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
+ C-version.
+ + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
+ Mccreary).
+ + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
+ and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
+ + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
+ + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
+ + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
+ substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+ (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
+
+20080823
+ + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
+ which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
+ + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
+ makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
+ + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
+ + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
+ possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
+ library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
+ + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
+ the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
+ + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
+ Debian #495815) -TD
+
+20080816
+ + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
+ + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
+ + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
+ applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
+ etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
+ Werner Fink).
+ + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
+ using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
+ + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
+ by comments by Samuel Thibault).
+ + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
+
+20080804
+ + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
+ + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
+ + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
+ + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
+ "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
+ + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
+ search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
+
+20080726
+ + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
+ thresholds).
+
+20080713
+ + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
+
+20080712
+ + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
+
+20080705
+ + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
+ make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
+ (cf: 20050205).
+ + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+ + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
+ -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
+ not link.
+
+20080628
+ + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+ + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
+ interface.
+ + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
+ by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+ + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
+
+20080621
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
+ menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+ + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
+ def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+ + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
+
+20080614
+ + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
+ + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
+ + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
+ by Poor Yorick).
+
+20080607
+ + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
+ window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
+ allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
+ some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
+ window which is being used in a wgetch().
+ + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
+
+20080531
+ + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
+ parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
+ use SP internally.
+ + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
+ + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
+ its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
+ + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
+ preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
+
+20080524
+ + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
+ screen which must be updated.
+ + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
+ always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
+ + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
+ Miroslav Lichvar)
+
+20080517
+ + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
+ --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
+ the ncurses ABI 5.
+ + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
+ Emanuele Giaquinta).
+ + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
+ (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080503
+ + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
+ overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
+ + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
+ global SP.
+ + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
+ each_ripoff().
+
+20080426
+ + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
+ multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
+ + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20080419
+ + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
+ being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
+ + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
+
+20080412
+ + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
+ + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
+ window parameters.
+ + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
+ pointer.
+ + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
+
+20080405
+ + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
+ used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
+ + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
+ discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
+ python-dev2 mailing list).
+
+20080329
+ + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
+ + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
+ are not associated with a particular screen.
+ + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
+ stdscr to the callback function.
+ + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
+ e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
+ (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
+ platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
+ the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
+ thread library.
+
+20080322
+ + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
+ waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
+ + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
+ for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
+ Sedeno).
+ + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
+ wide-characters with extended-colors.
+ + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
+ + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
+ + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
+
+20080308
+ + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
+ that the 'F' accepts.
+ + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
+ are working concurrently.
+ + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
+ window.
+
+20080301
+ + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
+ recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
+ _nc_free_and_exit().
+
+20080223
+ + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
+ lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+
+20080216
+ + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
+ is implemented to suspend the entire process.
+
+20080209
+ + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+ comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+ that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
+ implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+ + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+ for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
+ but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+ + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+ using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+ further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov).
+ + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+ If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+ sequence.
+
+20080126
+ + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+ handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+ or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+ + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+ + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+ + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
+20080112
+ + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
+ + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
+ adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
+ softkeys were used.
+
+20080105
+ + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
+ "link_test" builds properly.
+ + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
+ + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
+ soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
+ + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
+ cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
+ question).
+ + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
+
+20071222
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for delwin().
+
+20071215
+ + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
+ pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
+
+20071201
+ + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
+ INSTALL file.
+ + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
+ + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
+ applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
+
+20071124
+ + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
+ is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
+ pierre4d2 comments).
+ + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
+ used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
+ by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
+ + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
+ by Chris Lee).
+
+20071117
+ + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
+ generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
+ filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
+ configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
+ filenames.
+ + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
+ + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
+ it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
+ declared.
+
+20071103
+ + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
+ + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
+
+20071020
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for use_window().
+ + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
+ cursor keys -TD
+ + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20071013
+ + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
+ without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
+ that library.
+ + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
+ the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
+ + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
+ #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
+ the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
+
+20071006
+ + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
+ changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
+ cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
+ memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070929
+ + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
+ calls within the ncurses library.
+ + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
+ the SCREEN.
+ + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
+ + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
+ it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
+20070915
+ + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
+ shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
+ + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
+ the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
+ + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
+
+20070908
+ + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
+ for threaded library (incomplete).
+ + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
+ creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070901
+ + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
+ for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
+ + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
+ + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
+ + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
+ to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
+ + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
+ options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070825
+ + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
+ (cf: 971004).
+ + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
+ option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20070818
+ + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
+ + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
+ "\0" followed by a digit.
+ + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
+ This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
+ the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
+ + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
+ which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
+ which was introduced to fix "make -j".
+ + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
+ + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
+ when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070812
+ + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
+ unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
+ + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
+ + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
+ _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
+ library.
+ + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
+ + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
+ _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
+ library.
+
+20070728
+ + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
+ _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
+ + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
+ + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
+ unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
+ use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
+ + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
+ internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
+ + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
+
+20070721
+ + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
+ + add test/test_get_wstr.c
+ + add test/test_getstr.c
+ + add test/test_inwstr.c
+ + add test/test_instr.c
+
+20070716
+ + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
+ is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
+ (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
+ cf: 20070310).
+
+20070714
+ + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+ + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+ ".log" to the name and try again.
+ + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+ + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+ + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+ + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
+ --disable-echo option is used.
+ + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20070707
+ + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
+ + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+ taking into account some split characters on left/right window
+ boundaries.
+
+20070630
+ + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
+ problems with multi-column characters.
+ + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
+ which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+ + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
+ multi-column extension bits are passed there.
+ + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
+ + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
+ report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
+
+20070623
+ + add test/demo_panels.c
+ + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
+
+20070612
+ + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
+ #226 -TD
+ + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
+ wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070609
+ + add test/key_name.c
+ + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
+ + update test/configure
+ + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+ + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
+ + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
+ cf: 20020901).
+
+20070602
+ + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
+ (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
+ + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
+ illustrate how to use mvcur().
+ + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
+ WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
+ is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
+
+20070526
+ + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
+ if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
+ initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
+ + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
+ broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
+
+20070512
+ + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
+ problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
+ a fullwidth cell.
+ + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
+ ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
+ from patch by Clive Nicolson).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
+
+20070505
+ + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
+ become uninitialized in the "b" test.
+ + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
+ movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
+ generated html.
+ + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
+ memory-checking.
+ + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
+ from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
+ + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
+ Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
+ --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
+
+20070428
+ + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
+ quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
+ 3.x to 4.x.
+ + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
+ library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
+ + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
+ an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
+ reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
+ (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
+ + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
+ + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
+ + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
+ SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
+ + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
+
+20070421
+ + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
+ _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
+ + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
+ type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
+ in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
+ to the libtool create- and link-operations.
+
+20070414
+ + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
+ the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
+ + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
+ Ada95 tree is not built.
+
+20070407
+ + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
+ + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
+ + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
+ FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
+ comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
+ + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
+ (cf: 20061209).
+ + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
+ > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
+ + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
+ + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
+ + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
+ progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + remove dead code in test/bs.c
+ + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
+ + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
+ + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
+ + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
+ tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
+ + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
+ + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
+ + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
+ + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
+ of V_BSD case.
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
+
+20070331
+ + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
+ global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
+ + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
+ to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
+ structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + improved install-sh's quoting.
+ + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
+ other programs.
+
+20070324
+ + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
+ + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
+ --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
+ + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
+ NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
+ an opaque pointer.
+
+20070317
+ + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
+ the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
+ + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
+ in the configure script to an error.
+ + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
+ such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
+ + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
+ + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
+ + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
+ Vidiassov).
+ + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
+ of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070311
+ + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
+ changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070310
+ + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
+ properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
+ Santoro).
+ + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
+ implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
+ + libraries are suffixed with "t"
+ + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
+ COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
+ functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
+ + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
+ i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
+
+20070303
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
+ opaque in selected configurations.
+ + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
+ running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
+ _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
+ identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
+ outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
+ only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
+ dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
+ installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
+ case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
+ Chua).
+ + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
+ (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
+
+20070224
+ + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
+ where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
+ ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
+ + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
+ + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
+ + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
+ + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
+ Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
+ + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
+ + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
+
+20070217
+ + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
+ enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
+ disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
+ Adam J Richter).
+ + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
+ the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
+ programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
+ which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
+ fixes.
+ + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
+ shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070210
+ + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
+ for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
+ regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
+
+20070203
+ + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
+ from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
+ Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
+ associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
+ Ricardo Cantu).
+ + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
+ + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
+ + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
+ to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
+ + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
+ no longer relies on it.
+ + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
+ --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
+ + remove tack from ncurses tree.
+
+20070128
+ + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
+ (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070127
+ + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
+ to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
+ + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
+ it is removed from the ncurses tree.
+ + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
+ its license consistent with ncurses.
+ + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
+ the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
+ + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
+
+20070120
+ + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
+ term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
+ + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
+ + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+
+20070113
+ + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
+ _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
+ + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
+ ncurses build-tree.
+ + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
+ in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070106
+ + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+ + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
+ (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20061230
+ + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
+ defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
+ + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
+ lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
+ + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
+ names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
+ + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
+ to manpages as needed.
+ + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
+ + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
+
+20061223
+ + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
+ from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
+ + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
+ + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
-20061217
+20061217
+ add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
definitions in <wchar.h>.
+ revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
+ modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
(requested by Bryan Henderson).
- + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile).
+ + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
+ modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
(request by Mike Aubury).
+ add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
stdbool.h, e.g.,
- #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
+ #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
#include <curses.h>
(discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
20031108
+ add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
- + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
+ + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
+ Gray).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20031101
"--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
+ correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
(reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
- + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
+ + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
<jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
20030503
20030208
+ add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
- + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
+ + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
+ make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
+ restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
interrupted by that signal.
- + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
+ + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
not needed with autoconf 2.52
+ revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
20000923
+ modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
- save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
+ save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
<jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
+ using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
<bledp@voila.fr>)).
+ change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
- filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
+ filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
<joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
+ corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
+ revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
980321
+ revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
- declared (from Adam J
. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
+ declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
+ remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
+ corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
Lukyanov).
+ correction to #317.
> patch 317 (ESR):
+ re-add _nc_hash_map
- + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
- + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
+ + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
+ (patch by A. Lukyanov).
+ + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
+ output characters.
+ + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
> patch 316 (ESR):
+ add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
(lib_doupdate.c).
+ add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
> patch 315 (ESR):
- + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
- (lib_doupdate.c).
+ + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
+ (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
(lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
+ new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
+ corrected typo in dtterm description.
> patch 313 (ESR):
+ add dtterm description
- + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
+ + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
960810 - snapshot
+ correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
> patch 312 (ESR):
correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
> patch 311 (ESR):
- + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
+ + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
+ by Ville Sulko).
960803 - snapshot
+ corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
> patch 310 (ESR):
+ documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
(reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
- + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
+ + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
960730
+ eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
+ call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
+ turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
> patch 309 (ESR):
- + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
+ + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
+ add more checks to terminfo parser.
+ add more symbols to infocmp.
> patch 308 (ESR):
+ terminfo changes (9.3.8)
+ modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
+ + fix option-processing bug in toe.
960713 - snapshot
+ always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
+ add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
+ corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
- + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
+ + patch 307 (ESR):
+ + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
+ + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
+ + patch 306 (ESR):
+ moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
+ + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
+ + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
+ rather than constant (report by mib).
+ + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
+ Muyter).
+ + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
+ have missing rmcup vs smcup.
960707
+ rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
+ make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
+ filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
descriptions.
- + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
+ work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
(reported by Zeyd).
+ modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
+ disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
of the screen.
+ > patch 305 (ESR):
+ + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
+ + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
+ + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
+ > patch 304 (ESR):
+ + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
960629 - snapshot
+ check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
+ better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
+ fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
(Werner Fleck).
+ + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
960601 - snapshot
+ auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
+ include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
+ fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
+ fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
+ > patch 302 (ESR):
+ + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
960518 - snapshot
+ revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
directory.
> patches 299-301 (ESR):
+ + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
+ + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
+ added hashmap.c
+ mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
+ corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
> patches 297, 298 (ESR):
+ implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
+ added TRACE_IEVENT
- + removed boolean version of 'getm'
- + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
- + added has_key()
+ + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
+ deselect.
+ + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
+ + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
+ is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
+ + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
+ (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
+ + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
+ Alexander Lukyanov).
+ added 't' to ncurses.c test.
+ moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
+ removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
is not part of X/Open Curses).
+ + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
+ misc cursor & optimization fixes.
960504 - snapshot
+ make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
> patches 295, 296 (ESR):
- + new "-e" option of tic.
- + fix for "infocmp -e".
- + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
+ split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
+ + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
+ + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
+ Verdoolaege).
+ + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
+ J Novoa III).
+ + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
+ Sylvan).
+ + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
+ Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
+ the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
+ + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
+ Juergen Pfeifer).
960418 - snapshot
+ use autoconf 2.9
definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
K&R-style substitution)
> patches 293, 294 (ESR):
- + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
- + corrected askuser() logic in tset
- + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
+ + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
+ menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
+ changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
+ __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
+ + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
+ newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
+ + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
+ Emmet Lazich).
+ + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
+ + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
+ + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
+ Michael Elkins).
+ added trace support for TTY flags
+ + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
+ + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
960406
+ fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
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