X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f672612c94cabff04eb96390eba2bc4e25802c4e;hp=71714e34c2ef41081ff9588b542155e0c6a5462b;hb=205f120bce7a338464e79ef846e4f07eff365d6c;hpb=3ce60e9f58cc00309981ed711d0b0d3362105881 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 71714e34..f672612c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1252 2008/06/28 23:37:53 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1304 2008/10/04 23:01:08 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,134 @@ 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. +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