X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=22df742e762f794db3678bddd27f2360a7053cf8;hp=d2947af5fa590893157c99e3683abe8d44b9da47;hb=5e36f11feab6f790e0cc6f2c882a67b7b65e3b6b;hpb=d6509484bda0c4dcd15c166b0bc9e2a173fcff53 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d2947af5..22df742e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1734 2011/07/16 22:24:30 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1833 2011/12/17 23:30:24 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,264 @@ 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. +20111217 + + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option + was not being used. + + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it + could use. + + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib + are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in + the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses + and termlib. + + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is + enabled. + + use types to fix some questionable casts to void*. + +20111210 + + modify configure script to check if thread library provides + pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6 + + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE + for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus + _SGI_SOURCE. + + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and + tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126). + + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script. + +20111203 + + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary + copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by + Debian #646977). + + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++. + +20111126 + + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries + (cf: 20111001). + + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an + absolute pathname. + + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could + use. + + improve description of database locations in tic manpage. + + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to + generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have + been built (patch by Mike Frysinger). + + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for + ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted + from patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20111119 + + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE + from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64 + (cf: 20110416) + + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull, + i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed + to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the + database (cf: 20111001). + +20111112 + + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin). + + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to + 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and + C++ header files. + + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm", + e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch + by Robert Millan). + + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code + in older FreeBSD machines. + + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or + _POSIX_SOURCE are defined. + + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files. + +20111030 + + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same + directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case + where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the + new hashed database to be installed in the next best location - + root's home directory. + + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to + config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022). + + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to + accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6. + + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header + interdependencies. + + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to + compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403). + This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++ + binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to + incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros + (report by Peter Kruse). + +20111022 + + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial + events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed + (cf: 20110917). + + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when + gnat does not work. + + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the + internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses + uses bool, which still produces these warnings. + +20111015 + + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it + clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib + option is also given (report by Sven Joachim). + + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open + "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109). + + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library. + +20111008 + + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c + + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts + of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the + other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728). + +20111001 + + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force + source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for + input and output of termcap source. + + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line, + making it consistent with ncurses' parser. + + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap + text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924). + + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the + conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is + normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning + message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem. + + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list. + +20110925 + + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry(). + +20110924 + + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before + filesystem. + + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script. + + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and + TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables, + to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick + Alcock aka "Nix"). + + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917). + +20110917 + + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9 + + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien + Guibouret). + + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5 + (patch by Damien Guibouret). + +20110910 + + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with + the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0" + (cf: 20110716). + + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect + of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret, + cf: 20100102). + + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD + + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over + the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use + the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W + Meunier). + + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in + FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus). + + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to + show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option + is used. + + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the + --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas). + +20110903 + + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal + increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report + by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713). + + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim). + +20110820 + + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do + not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177". + + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD + + add terminator entry -TD + + add simpleterm entry -TD + + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is + null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero + (cf: 20110528). + +20110813 + + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in + + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the + database connection, using atexit() to cleanup. + + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap + entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are + guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting + the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501) + + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to + accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature. + + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on + error-return. + +20110807 + + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST + variable is defined in the makefiles which use it. + + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script. + + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled. + + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD + + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output + from tic/infocmp. + + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description + field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=". + + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source + use a single line. + + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable. + +20110730 + + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the + directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work + around updates to the variables used by tic during an install. + + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility + for termcap output. + + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the + "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these + features: + + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap + + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading + termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc. + + expand "\:" as "\072" on output. + + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case + there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker. + + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent. + + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to + freed memory. + + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric + values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be + positive. + + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>" + feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by + tctest (cf: 19991211). + + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it + from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710) + + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow + a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS. + + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when + translating to termcap. + + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where + getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages. + +20110723 + + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when + extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin). + + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in + the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin). + + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov) + + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry + (Yuri Pankov). + + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g., + to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov + regarding Schilling's test program): + + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively. + + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto + + use \040 rather than \s + + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0 + + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD. + 20110716 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic). @@ -279,7 +537,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20110212 + regenerated html manpages. + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with - special case of trace configuration. + special case of trace configuration. 20110205 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD @@ -343,7 +601,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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 + + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html (report by Sven Joachim). 20101128 @@ -418,8 +676,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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 + + 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 @@ -602,7 +860,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20100417 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings. + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform - terminfo to termcap strings + 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