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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1318 2008/10/25 23:39:22 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1353 2009/01/06 00:26:35 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.
+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
20070609
+ add test/key_name.c
- + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.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().
shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
20070210
- + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ + 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
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