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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1403 2009/07/11 18:26:12 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.
+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.
overlooked til now.
20081011
- + update html documentation.
+ + 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.
(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).
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