X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=18dec72b92833085ba5e7923fe8e066e32cacece;hp=c2ad772f1382a393fb0ff3af6901151959504bcc;hb=2a3e5b0949f9eca0620d2548488cf81904ad3c83;hpb=9b4c4abadc0a29999c5ddad5aa8d769fee28d687 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c2ad772f..18dec72b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3511 2020/06/27 21:48:14 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3552 2020/09/01 00:21:01 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,111 @@ 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. +20200831 + + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner + Fink). + +20200829 + + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten + Anonymous". + + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of + win32-driver. + + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS + to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on + mawk and lynx). + > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer): + + correct icl6404 csr + + correct ti916 cup + + improve ndr9500 + +20200822 + + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh + + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the + man_db.renames file. + + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function + (report by Yue Tai). + + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker). + + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared" + option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to + provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai). + +20200817 + + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation + warnings. + + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated. + + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds + using the string-hacks option. + + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure + option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink). + +20200816 + + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence + (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808). + + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck + + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++ + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + +20200808 + + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part + of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use + AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and + --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using + fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling + (discussion with Keith Marshall). + + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW. + + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as + parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with + MinGW. + +20200801 + + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006). + + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration + (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous"). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to + reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings. + + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure + +20200725 + + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by + "Maarten Anonymous") + + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT. + + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by + Florian Weimer). + +20200718 + + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual + Studio C++. + + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static + libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++. + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling + the main program, so the linker can find related objects. + + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link. + + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs. + +20200711 + + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo + Bruckl). + + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous") + + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell). + + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the + buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan). + + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a + trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen). + +20200704 + + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in + the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard). + > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 + (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"): + + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport" + declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++. + 20200627 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with gprbuild.