X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=473f9f7e093732511d103c844a57c8f127ddae93;hp=03a3651432e5f32163e08b11bb80cc427cd26271;hb=9d7a689764468c4dcea1fa7ffc6a2b37b8740330;hpb=7ca9d1eb1a8a995514d4dee312bf136fba88ec62 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 03a36514..473f9f7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1812 2011/10/30 14:36:41 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1826 2011/12/03 22:00:24 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,50 @@ 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. +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 @@ -470,7 +514,7 @@ 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 @@ -534,7 +578,7 @@ 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 @@ -609,8 +653,8 @@ 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 @@ -793,7 +837,7 @@ 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