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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1243 2008/06/07 15:48:17 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.
+20090510
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090502
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
+
+20090425
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090419
+ + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
+ Christian Ebert).
+
+20090418
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090411
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
+ part of the form library.
+
+20090404
+ + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
+ Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
+
+20090328
+ + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
+ function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
+ + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
+ by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
+ + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
+ + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
+ a temporary variable.
+ + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
+ library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
+ Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
+ + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
+ with Charles Wilson).
+ + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
+ + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
+ > patches by Charles Wilson:
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
+ version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
+ digits, after the final '.').
+ + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
+ intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
+ using that in the libtool link-commands.
+ + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
+ from 2009031 changes.
+ + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
+ LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
+ termlib) is to be linked.
+ + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
+ enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
+
+20090321
+ + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
+ build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
+ (report by Charles Wilson).
+ + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
+ the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
+ for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
+ "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
+
+20090314
+ + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
+ dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
+ such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
+ Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
+ list).
+ + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
+ Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
+ does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
+ (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
+ + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
+ + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
+ + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
+ changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
+
+20090228
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
+ enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
+
+20090221
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090214
+ + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
+ extended functions.
+ + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
+ curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
+ some internals work is needed to complete these).
+ + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
+
+20090207
+ + update several configure macros from lynx changes
+ + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
+ + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
+ + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + make it work with $DESTDIR
+ + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
+
+20090124
+ + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
+ the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
+ Giaquinta).
+ + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
+ + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
+ gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
+
+20090117
+ + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
+ *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
+ dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
+ + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
+ character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
+ done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
+ multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
+ (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
+ http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
+
+20090110
+ + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
+ + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
+ directory.
+ + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
+ adacurses-config
+ + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
+ such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
+
+20090105
+ + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
+ prefix variable.
+ + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
+ --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
+ subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
+ (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+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
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().
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