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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1695 2011/04/30 21:58:29 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.
+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().