X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=02b5986242efedf845464fc5e8f840abd983a1dd;hp=18f80fdce1f58e79b336c7d7c1145977ac607694;hb=950eed9ace2ceff30b88c20de1ef8a0ba05ac567;hpb=614f0d6711aad3f1a99c149cc533e74f8af3c444 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 18f80fdc..02b59862 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1531 2010/04/17 22:49:16 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1693 2011/04/23 22:28:43 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,462 @@ 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. +20110423 + + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen. + + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared + as different types on some Unix systems. + + 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). + + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate + assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors(). + +20110416 + + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if + the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE + and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20110409 + + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander + Kolesen). + + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in + some ncurses packages. + + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script. + + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the + test/configure script to address testing with very old machines. + +20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20110402 + + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts. + + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow + packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for + the in-tree build of sample programs. + + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, + needed for rpm script. + + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow + making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler + options if building a shared library with gnat. + +20110329 + > portability fixes for Ada95 binding: + + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is + needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit + that sample program. + + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure + + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding + which were added in 5.7 and later. + + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency + upon GNU sed. + +20110326 + + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant + code. + + regen Ada html documentation. + + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround. + + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test + builds. + + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and + CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS. + + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports + libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files. + + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit. + + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu). + + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate + package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr + Pavlu). + > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez): + + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress + pragmas. + + suppress unreferenced warnings. + + make all dereferences in binding explicit. + +20110319 + + regen Ada html documentation. + + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the + --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include + is listed first. + + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file. + + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in + Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is + distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the + CFLAGS for the build has these options. + + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx + and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for + thread in comp.lang.ada). + + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5 + + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt + > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez): + + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS. + + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs. + The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent + implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy(). + + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads + + add Library_Options to library.gpr + + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild + +20110307 + + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711). + > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez): + + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to + conform to form.h. + + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see + fieldtype(3FORM). + + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when + explain.txt is not found. + +20110305 + + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes + for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts, + needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5 + +20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20110226 + + update release notes, for 5.8. + + regenerated html manpages. + + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency + with write_file(). + + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is + a new install of hashed database. + + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk. + +20110220 + + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269. + + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses' + configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building + wide-character configuration. + + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install + + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662). + +20110212 + + regenerated html manpages. + + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with + special case of trace configuration. + +20110205 + + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD + + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not + support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD + + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an + extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list + discussion). + +20110122 + + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release. + + correct limit-checks in derwin(). + + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero + size (report by Garrett Cooper). + + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas + Alcock). + + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted + by discussion with Kevin Martin). + +20110115 + + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option + work without requiring the --with-ncurses option. + + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses. + + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage. + + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage. + + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze" + + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project + file configuration if that is used. + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20110108 + + regenerated html manpages. + + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with + clang --analyze. + + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + update ncurses/llib-lncurses* + +20110101 + + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5, + except those dealing with function pointers, etc. + +20101225 + + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and + allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden. + + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library. + +20101211 + + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro + R Sedeno). + + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD + + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special + characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the + wide-character configuration. + + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506). + + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still + referred to quitting with 'q'. + +20101204 + + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab + strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced + version which works with termcap. + + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation + (request by Sven Joachim). + + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html + (report by Sven Joachim). + +20101128 + + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special + case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182): + mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make + +20101127 + + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built + out-of-tree. + + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182). + + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt + +20101120 + + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267 + changes. + + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries + e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the + rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim). + + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items + for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE + library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc., + since 2003 -TD + +20101113 + + compiler warning fixes for test programs. + + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses. + + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm + #267 changes. + + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin. + +20101106 + + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as + a separate package. + + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate + package. + +20101023 + + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by + Philip Ganchev). + + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix + when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to + more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink). + + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a + warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal + scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build + tree (report by Werner Fink). + + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form. + + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders + which do not support selectively linking against static libraries + (report by John P. Hartmann) + + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim). + +20101009 + + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color + entry (Novell #644831) -TD + + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it + gray rather than black like color-0 -TD + + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an + external package "cindent". + +20101002 + + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer + pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads. + + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for + inconsistent printer-controls. + + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized + form is available -TD + + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is + ANSI -TD + + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by + Sven Joachim). + + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD + > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW + + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in + + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven + Joachim). + + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to + distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored + in mingw_arch + +20100925 + + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both + xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which + special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD + > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see + README.MinGW). + + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain + +20100918 + + regenerated html manpages. + + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages. + + add manpage for sp-funcs. + + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids. + +20100911 + + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo- + and form-libraries. + + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre). + + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form + (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004). + + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old + platforms. + +20100904 + + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test + programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier). + +20100828 + + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD + + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative + message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal + description (prompted by Debian #593920). + + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal + descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920). + + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin + Sittler). + +20100814 + + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check + the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window + (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp). + + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch + by Tim van der Molen). + + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and + tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared + library configuration. + + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM + directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X. + + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links. + +20100807 + + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci) + (cf: 20100724) + + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs + used for installing database and for generating fallback data, + e.g., for cross-compiling. + + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW + + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target. + +20100731 + + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for + special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available + (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov). + + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent() + is called (patch by Roumen Petrov). + + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage. + + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in + http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses + +20100724 + + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given. + + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if + it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target + (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html) + + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test + after exit from 'm' main-menu command. + + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of + GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line. + +20100717 + + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends + the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott) + + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the + Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src. + +20100703 + + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 + + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src. + + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work. + +20100626 + + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 + + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file; + work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile. + +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 @@ -300,7 +756,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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 + 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. @@ -717,7 +1173,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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. @@ -3424,7 +3880,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20030208 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping. - + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, + + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by Gerben Wierda ). + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before, @@ -4143,7 +4599,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be interrupted by that signal. - + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes + + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes not needed with autoconf 2.52 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)