X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3a713e94d5dfedf50e530107b823c30988e065a7;hp=8614a009c98b02bb4602c17dd59ddff116a6e1c9;hb=41677b308e138027b7e435f741ee7fe5651237b0;hpb=06d92ef542e2ae2f48541e67a02acc50336e981c diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8614a009..3a713e94 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1504 2010/02/13 22:44:31 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1543 2010/05/15 21:46:31 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,118 @@ 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. +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 + 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 + directory was already added. + + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of + directories (which will be ignored). + +20100410 + + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse: + + discard motion events + + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event + + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons. + + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for + cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option. + +20100403 + + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc. + + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how + environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values + (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna). + + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose. + + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the + extended-colors configuration. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs. + + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character + configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts. + +20100327 + + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more + reusable. + + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes. + + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system + (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the + given library. + + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is + normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS. + Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case. + +20100320 + + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use + newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan + Hourihane). + +20100313 + + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will + install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim). + + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks + option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889). + + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from + compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of + ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer). + + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of + TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders + Kaseorg). + +20100306 + + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man + (suggested by Sven Joachim). + + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of + va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis). + +20100227 + + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by + Ada95/make-tar.sh + + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color + model does not clear with color for that feature -TD + +20100220 + + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with + making those separately distributable. + + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378). + + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo + Schwarze). + 20100213 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD @@ -2765,7 +2877,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. (request by Mike Aubury). + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of stdbool.h, e.g., - #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0 + #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0 #include (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).