-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written --
-- authorization. --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1695 2011/04/30 21:58:29 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1709 2011/06/05 00:19:16 tom Exp $
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
+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
+ 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 #337905).
+ 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().