X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b8f6f3d6b26bff90fbaa56bbad3941b266b27dc1;hp=06f7b566fdce47aa4639446c0a5710b0e92f7074;hb=f9e12ea0198ed1c1c6f876295f31f531a7d5bf6b;hpb=bd7ef7c2309fd00aa4576168c46f557c622cb9c3 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 06f7b566..b8f6f3d6 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 1.1241 2008/05/31 21:52:48 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1351 2009/01/04 22:43:22 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,298 @@ 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. +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). + +20080920 + + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries. + + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM. + + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat + newsgroup by FurtiveBertie). + + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind, + misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas) + +20080913 + + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work. + + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7 + +20080907 + + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W + Meunier). + +20080906 + + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64. + + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings, + use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option. + + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W + Meunier). + + update test/configure script. + + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc() + is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20. + + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in + test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available, + fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00 + +20080830 + + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work. + + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the + C-version. + + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott + Mccreary). + + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr + and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64. + + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c + + filter #line's from lib_gen.c + + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid + substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems). + +20080823 + + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1, + which uses #define's to associate its header and library. + + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t, + makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23 + + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804). + + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and + possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew + library (patch by Dr Werner Fink). + + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for + the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran). + + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by + Debian #495815) -TD + +20080816 + + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature. + + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols. + + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that + applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes, + etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr + Werner Fink). + + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library + using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink). + + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted + by comments by Samuel Thibault). + + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report. + +20080804 + + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak. + + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus + + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou). + + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for + "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes. + + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the + search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre). + +20080726 + + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining + thresholds). + +20080713 + + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang). + +20080712 + + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris. + +20080705 + + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to + make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration + (cf: 20050205). + + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL. + + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the + -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to + not link. + +20080628 + + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration. + + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap + interface. + + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted + by comment on FreeBSD mailing list). + + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD + + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD + +20080621 + + regenerated html documentation. + + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and + menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg). + + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and + def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode() + + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs. + +20080614 + + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen(). + + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris. + + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report + by Poor Yorick). + +20080607 + + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the + window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That + allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with + some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a + window which is being used in a wgetch(). + + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's. + 20080531 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still @@ -406,7 +698,7 @@ 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(). @@ -627,7 +919,7 @@ 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