X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c8b86fad23e98cf926ddb44d53f17376c9f02e20;hp=8c079d29fdc0ae9a06d98ba8ca44384219ccffb1;hb=1c2ec25b8186b7973aeb06ec4da6b63656e12f7d;hpb=11ca5f62994c7a14c4e500510bd242e1e721f8be diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c079d29..c8b86fad 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1268 2008/08/17 01:28:30 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1296 2008/09/20 21:45:57 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,65 @@ 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. +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.