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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1058 2006/12/24 00:50:10 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
-20061223
+20070113
+ + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
+ _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
+ + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
+ ncurses build-tree.
+ + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
+ in a separate library (suggestd by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070106
+ + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+ + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
+ (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20061230
+ + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
+ defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
+ + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
+ lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
+ + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
+ names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
+ + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
+ to manpages as needed.
+ + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
+ + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
+
+20061223
+ modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
+ modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
-20061217
+20061217
+ add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
definitions in <wchar.h>.
+ revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
20000923
+ modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
- save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
+ save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
<jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
+ using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in