ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070217

[ncurses.git] / NEWS

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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1084 2007/02/11 01:17:49 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1087 2007/02/17 22:19:25 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,25 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+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
@@ -146,7 +165,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + 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()'.
 
@@ -4350,7 +4369,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          <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,
@@ -5393,7 +5412,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 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).