X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2c4afb6465264ddfac2e5e3cded2cb7c6a741dc9;hp=c9b0e427afcfc8e16638203f1997b7bb345416d8;hb=eae581c0044c1c0ef9caa17fc9b9ae6ef4c93cca;hpb=feb958a7e85895ec23547b7b1a8daa03e85c7b9c diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c9b0e427..2c4afb64 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2009 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 1.1297 2008/09/25 23:30:56 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1362 2009/02/07 19:20:43 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,207 @@ 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. +20090207 + + update several configure macros from lynx changes + + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS + + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR + + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + make it work with $DESTDIR + + create the pkg-config library directory if needed. + +20090124 + + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond + the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele + Giaquinta). + + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule. + + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and + gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161). + +20090117 + + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for + *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's + dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey). + + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn + character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is + done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped + multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row + (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc + http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930). + +20090110 + + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD + + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib + directory. + + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in + adacurses-config + + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors + such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849). + +20090105 + + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting + prefix variable. + + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the + --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the + subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix + (report by Frederic L W Meunier). + +20090104 + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when + deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown + for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into + account. + + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk, + used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack). + +20090103 + + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for + CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen). + + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along + with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files + for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt). + + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir + option. + + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a + configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar" + options. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + +20081227 + + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library. + + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc + on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan). + +20081220 + + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when + --disable-ext-funcs is used. + + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without + wrapping. + + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines. + + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines. + +20081213 + + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6 + (GenToo #245370). + + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed + the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man + + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from + GenToo #250454). + + fixes from NetBSD port at + http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches + patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly) + patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config). + + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH + by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the + search-lists. + + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot, + OpenBSD documentation/6019), + +20081206 + + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to + work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc. + + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character + set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran). + + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather + than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that + ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue + was xterm's alternate screen feature). + + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a + zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717, + adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault). + +20081129 + + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control + character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to + obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not + passing color or video attributes. + + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to + display meta-characters. + + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h + + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD + + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only + displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by + Ricardo Cantu). + +20081122 + + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and + Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report + by Mike Dennison). + + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program. + +20081115 + + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI + clear-all-tabs -TD + + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260). + + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger). + +20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20081025 + + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks. + + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which + does not work well on that platform). + + build-fix for QNX C++ binding. + +20081018 + + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX. + + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline + in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by + Nit Khair). + + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when + --disable-database is used. + + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files + to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly + (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk). + + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of + CF_LIBUTF8. + +20081012 + + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename + original to teraterm2.3 -TD + + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD + + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD + + add "aterm" terminfo -TD + + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD + + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities, + overlooked til now. + +20081011 + + update 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. + + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO. + + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c + + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether + tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from + 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421). + +20081004 + + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but + works for C/C++ parts). + + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g. + AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's. + +20080927 + + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of + strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h + + fix build for --disable-sigwinch + + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use + GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc. + + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain + "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals + that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm. + + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib + > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code. + + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112). + + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to + slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization. + 20080925 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar). @@ -541,7 +742,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20070609 + add test/key_name.c - + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c + + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c + update test/configure + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar(). + null-terminate result of wunctrl(). @@ -762,7 +963,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov). 20070210 - + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr(). + + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr(). + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by