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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
50 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
51 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
52 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
53 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
54 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
55 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
56 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
57 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
58 cannot combine -c and -o options.
61 + regenerate HTML manpages.
62 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
63 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
64 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
65 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
66 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
67 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
70 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
71 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
73 + modify test/ncurses.c:
74 + check return-value of putwin
75 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
76 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
77 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
80 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
81 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
82 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
83 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
87 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
88 PIC builds documented in
89 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
90 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
91 due to program-transformation configure options.
92 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
95 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
96 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
99 + regenerate HTML manpages.
100 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
104 + regenerate HTML manpages.
105 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
106 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
107 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
108 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
109 can handle the event.
112 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
113 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
114 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
115 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
118 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
119 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
120 as responding to window size-changes.
123 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
124 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
127 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
128 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
129 in case weak symbols are used.
130 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
131 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
133 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
134 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
135 + update config.guess, config.sub from
136 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
139 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
140 in threaded configuration.
141 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
142 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
145 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
146 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
147 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
151 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
152 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
153 unwanted blank lines.
156 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
157 (report by Corey Minyard).
158 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
161 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
162 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
163 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
164 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
166 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
167 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
168 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
170 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
171 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
174 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
175 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
176 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
177 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
180 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
181 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
182 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
185 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
187 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
189 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
190 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
193 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
194 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
195 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
196 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
197 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
198 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
199 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
200 drawing characters as double-width.
203 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
204 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
205 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
206 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
207 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
208 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
209 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
210 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
214 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
216 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
218 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
219 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
220 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
221 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
222 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
225 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
226 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
227 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
228 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
231 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
232 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
233 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
234 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
235 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
237 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
238 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
239 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
240 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
241 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
244 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
245 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
246 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
247 install time (cf: 20150822).
248 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
249 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
250 empty "local" section.
251 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
252 to incorrect attribute-masking.
255 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
256 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
257 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
258 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
259 did not display well.
260 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
261 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
262 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
263 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
264 Normand, Novell #946048).
265 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
266 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
267 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
268 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
269 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
270 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
272 + update config.guess, config.sub from
273 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
276 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
277 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
278 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
279 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
280 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
281 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
282 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
283 + support building with libtool on OS/2
284 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
285 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
288 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
289 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
290 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
291 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
293 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
294 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
295 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
298 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
300 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
301 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
304 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
306 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
307 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
308 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
309 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
312 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
314 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
315 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
316 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
317 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
318 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
319 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
321 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
324 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
326 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
327 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
328 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
330 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
331 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
334 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
336 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
337 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
338 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
339 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
340 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
344 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
345 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
346 + update release notes in INSTALL.
347 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
350 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
351 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
352 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
354 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
357 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
358 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
359 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
360 more than 200 snapshots.
361 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
365 + updated llib-* files.
366 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
367 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
369 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
370 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
371 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
372 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
373 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
374 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
375 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
378 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
379 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
380 curs_initscr.3x page.
381 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
382 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
383 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
385 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
386 e.g., ncursestw library.
389 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
390 configuration of ncurses6.
391 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
392 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
393 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
394 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
395 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
398 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
399 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
400 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
403 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
405 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
406 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
407 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
408 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
409 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
410 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
411 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
412 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
413 setupterm and restartterm functions.
414 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
415 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
416 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
420 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
421 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
422 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
423 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
424 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
425 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
426 discussion with Sven Joachim).
427 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
430 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
431 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
432 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
433 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
434 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
435 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
436 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
437 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
438 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
439 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
440 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
441 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
442 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
443 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
446 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
447 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
448 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
449 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
450 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
451 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
452 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
453 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
456 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
457 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
458 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
459 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
460 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
462 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
463 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
466 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
467 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
468 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
469 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
471 + regenerate html manpages.
472 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
473 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
474 Stack Overflow forum):
477 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
478 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
479 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
480 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
481 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
485 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
486 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
487 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
488 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
489 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
491 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
492 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
493 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
494 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
495 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
496 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
498 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
499 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
500 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
501 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
502 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
503 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
505 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
506 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
508 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
509 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
511 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
512 the ncurses library aside from headers.
513 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
514 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
515 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
516 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
517 + update config.guess, config.sub from
518 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
521 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
522 (report by Todd M Lewis).
523 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
524 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
525 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
526 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
527 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
528 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
530 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
531 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
532 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
533 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
534 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
535 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
536 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
539 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
540 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
541 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
542 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
543 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
544 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
545 with the shared libraries.
546 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
547 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
548 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
549 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
550 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
551 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
552 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
553 inherit into new windows.
556 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
557 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
558 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
559 readonly text segment.
562 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
563 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
566 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
567 the extended putwin/getwin.
568 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
570 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
574 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
575 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
576 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
577 for a magic code at the beginning:
578 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
581 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
583 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
584 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
587 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
588 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
589 (report by Grady Martin).
592 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
593 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
594 the wide-character libraries.
595 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
597 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
598 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
601 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
602 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
603 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
607 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
608 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
611 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
612 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
613 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
614 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
615 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
618 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
619 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
620 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
623 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
624 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
625 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
627 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
628 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
629 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
630 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
631 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
632 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
633 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
634 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
635 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
636 (report by Pavel Balaev).
639 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
640 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
641 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
642 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
646 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
647 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
651 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
655 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
656 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
657 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
659 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
660 regenerate html-manpages.
663 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
664 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
666 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
667 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
668 package for ncurses6.
669 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
670 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
671 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
672 in the corresponding ".map" files.
673 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
674 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
678 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
679 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
680 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
681 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
683 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
684 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
685 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
686 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
689 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
690 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
691 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
692 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
693 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
696 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
697 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
698 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
699 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
700 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
701 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
702 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
706 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
707 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
711 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
715 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
716 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
717 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
718 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
719 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
721 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
722 (report by Mike Gran).
725 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
726 demonstration of its limitations.
727 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
728 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
729 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
730 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
731 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
732 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
733 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
735 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
736 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
739 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
740 + implement flash in win_driver.c
741 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
743 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
744 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
745 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
746 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
747 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
748 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
749 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
750 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
753 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
754 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
755 some older cross-compiler environments.
756 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
757 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
758 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
759 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
760 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
761 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
762 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
763 + update config.sub from
764 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
767 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
769 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
772 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
774 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
777 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
778 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
779 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
782 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
783 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
787 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
788 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
789 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
792 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
793 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
794 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
795 + regenerated html manpages.
796 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
797 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
798 which reverses cause/effect.
799 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
800 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
801 + fixes for win_driver.c:
802 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
807 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
808 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
809 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
810 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
812 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
813 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
814 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
815 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
819 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
820 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
821 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
822 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
823 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
824 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
825 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
826 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
827 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
830 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
831 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
832 options, from xterm changes.
835 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
836 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
840 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
841 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
844 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
845 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
846 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
847 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
848 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
849 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
850 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
853 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
854 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
855 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
856 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
857 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
858 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
859 providing directly comparable screens.
860 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
863 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
865 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
866 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
867 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
868 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
869 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
870 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
871 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
874 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
875 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
876 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
877 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
878 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
881 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
882 overlap with sgr functionality.
883 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
884 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
885 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
886 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
887 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
888 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
889 older ncurses than 20131207.
890 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
891 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
892 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
893 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
894 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
897 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
898 environment variable.
899 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
900 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
901 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
902 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
903 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
904 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
905 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
906 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
907 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
908 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
909 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
910 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
911 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
912 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
914 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
916 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
917 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
918 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
920 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
921 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
922 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
923 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
924 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
925 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
926 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
928 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
930 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
931 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
932 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
933 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
934 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
935 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
936 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
937 to be consecutive anyway.
938 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
939 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
940 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
941 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
944 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
945 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
946 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
949 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
950 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
951 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
952 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
955 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
957 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
958 simplify later merging:
959 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
960 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
961 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
962 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
963 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
967 + update config.guess, config.sub from
968 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
971 + modify configure script:
972 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
973 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
974 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
975 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
976 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
977 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
978 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
979 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
981 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
982 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
985 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
986 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
987 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
988 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
989 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
990 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
994 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
997 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
998 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
999 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1000 + add terminology entry -TD
1001 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1002 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1005 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1006 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1007 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1008 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1009 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1013 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1014 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1015 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1016 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1017 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1020 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1023 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1024 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1025 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1029 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1030 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1031 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1032 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1033 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1034 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1036 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1037 html emitted by docbook.
1040 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1041 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1042 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1043 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1046 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1047 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1048 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1049 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1050 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1051 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1054 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1055 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1056 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1057 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1060 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1061 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1064 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1066 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1069 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1070 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1071 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1072 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1074 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1076 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1077 + updated llib-l* files.
1080 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1081 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1085 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1086 recognized by clang.
1089 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1090 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1091 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1092 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1093 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1094 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1095 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1096 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1097 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1098 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1099 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1100 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1102 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1104 + update config.sub from
1105 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1108 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1111 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1112 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1113 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1114 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1116 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1119 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1120 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1121 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1122 them more consistent with other packages.
1125 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1126 compiling ncurses-examples.
1127 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1130 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1133 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1134 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1135 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1136 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1137 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1141 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1142 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1146 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1147 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1149 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1151 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1152 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1153 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1154 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1155 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1158 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1159 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1160 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1163 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1165 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1166 before/after Debian #700177.
1167 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1168 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1170 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1171 of sort, improving portability.
1172 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1173 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1174 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1177 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1178 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1180 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1181 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1182 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1185 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1186 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1187 introduced by Debian #700177.
1188 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1189 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1192 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1193 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1195 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1196 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1197 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1200 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1201 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1203 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1204 cross-compile support packages.
1205 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1208 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1209 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1210 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1211 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1212 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1213 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1214 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1215 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1216 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1217 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1218 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1219 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1222 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1223 initialization of cur_term.
1226 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1227 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1230 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1231 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1232 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1233 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1234 --enable-auto-import flag.
1235 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1239 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1240 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1241 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1242 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1243 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1245 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1246 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1247 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1250 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1251 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1252 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1254 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1255 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1256 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1257 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1258 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1259 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1262 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1263 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1265 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1266 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1267 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1268 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1269 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1270 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1271 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1272 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1273 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1274 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1276 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1277 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1280 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1281 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1282 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1283 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1284 the left margin of the display.
1285 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1286 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1287 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1288 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1291 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1292 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1293 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1294 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1295 + regenerated html manpages.
1296 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1299 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1300 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1301 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1302 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1303 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1304 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1307 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1308 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1309 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1310 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1311 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1314 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1315 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1318 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1319 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1320 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1321 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1322 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1324 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1325 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1326 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1327 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1330 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1331 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1332 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1333 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1335 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1337 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1339 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1342 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1346 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1347 (report by Christian Ebert).
1348 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1349 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1350 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1353 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1354 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1355 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1356 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1357 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1358 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1359 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1360 by Benjamin Sittler)
1361 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1362 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1363 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1364 line split after "%;".
1365 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1366 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1369 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1370 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1371 + regenerated html manpages.
1372 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1373 + updated some autoconf macros:
1374 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1375 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1376 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1377 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1378 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1379 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1380 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1381 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1384 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1385 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1387 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1388 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1390 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1391 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1392 of raw input in MinGW port.
1395 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1396 + update config.guess, config.sub
1399 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1401 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1403 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1404 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1405 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1406 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1407 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1408 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1409 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1411 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1412 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1415 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1416 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1418 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1419 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1420 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1423 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1424 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1425 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1428 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1429 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1430 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1431 help reduce flicker.
1432 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1433 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1434 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1435 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1436 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1437 Dennis Grevenstein).
1438 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1439 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1440 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1443 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1444 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1445 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1446 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1447 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1448 + improve error-checking in copywin
1449 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1450 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1451 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1452 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1453 matching capability names.
1454 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1455 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1456 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1459 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1460 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1461 are unused in the current driver model.
1462 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1464 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1465 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1466 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1467 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1470 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1471 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1473 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1474 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1475 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1476 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1477 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1480 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1481 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1482 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1486 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1488 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1489 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1491 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1492 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1493 wide-character which can be used.
1496 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1497 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1498 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1499 by Erwin Waterlander).
1500 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1501 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1502 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1503 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1504 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1505 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1509 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1510 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1511 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1512 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1513 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1514 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1515 + remove a few redundant checks.
1516 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1518 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1519 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1520 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1521 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1523 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1524 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1525 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1529 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1530 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1531 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1535 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1536 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1537 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1538 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1541 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1542 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1543 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1544 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1545 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1546 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1547 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1548 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1550 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1551 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1552 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1553 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1556 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1557 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1558 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1560 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1561 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1562 libraries or executables.
1565 + realign these related pages:
1570 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1571 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1572 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1573 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1574 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1575 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1576 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1577 based on testing with tack -TD
1578 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1579 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1582 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1584 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1585 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1586 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1589 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1593 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1594 (patch by Christian Persch).
1597 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1599 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1600 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1601 has used that for a while.
1602 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1603 for experimental use.
1604 + remove unused configure macros.
1605 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1606 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1607 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1608 + update config.guess, config.sub
1611 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1612 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1613 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1614 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1615 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1616 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1617 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1620 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1621 to help with MinGW port.
1624 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1626 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1629 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1632 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1633 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1634 might not be allocated.
1635 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1638 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1639 initial screen-sizes.
1640 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1641 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1645 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1646 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1650 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1651 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1652 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1654 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1655 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1658 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1659 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1660 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1661 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1662 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1663 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1664 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1668 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1669 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1670 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1671 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1672 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1673 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1674 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1675 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1679 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1680 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1681 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1682 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1683 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1684 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1687 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1691 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1693 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1695 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1696 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1697 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1698 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1699 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1700 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1703 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1705 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1706 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1707 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1709 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1710 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1713 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1714 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1715 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1718 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1719 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1721 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1722 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1724 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1725 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1728 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1730 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1731 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1732 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1733 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1734 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1735 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1738 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1739 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1740 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1741 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1742 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1743 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1744 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1745 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1746 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1748 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1749 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1750 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1751 Onno van der Linden).
1754 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1756 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1758 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1759 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1762 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1763 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1764 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1765 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1766 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1767 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1768 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1771 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1772 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1773 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1774 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1775 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1776 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1777 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1778 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1779 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1780 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1781 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1782 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1783 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1784 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1785 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1788 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1789 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1790 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1791 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1792 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1793 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1794 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1795 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1796 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1797 are interpreted as key definitions.
1798 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1799 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1803 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1804 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1805 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1806 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1807 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1808 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1809 as building-blocks -TD
1810 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1813 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1814 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1815 title is a status-line. -TD
1816 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1817 of ordering and overrides -TD
1818 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1819 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1820 used in that file -TD
1823 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1824 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1825 definable capabilities.
1826 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1827 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1828 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1829 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1830 embedded in the description.
1831 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1832 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1833 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1834 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1835 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1836 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1839 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1840 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1841 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1842 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1843 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1844 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1845 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1846 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1849 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1850 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1851 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1852 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1853 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1854 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1857 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1858 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1859 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1861 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1862 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1863 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1864 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1867 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1868 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1869 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1872 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1873 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1874 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1876 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1877 calls to setupterm().
1878 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1880 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1881 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1882 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1884 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1888 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1891 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1893 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1894 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1895 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1896 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1897 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1898 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1900 + update config.guess, config.sub
1903 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1904 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1905 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1906 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1907 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1908 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1909 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1910 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1911 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1914 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1915 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1916 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1917 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1918 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1919 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1920 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1921 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1922 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1923 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1924 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1925 Linux versus most other systems.
1928 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1932 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1933 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1934 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1935 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1936 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1937 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1938 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1939 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1940 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1941 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1942 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1943 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1944 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1945 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1948 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1950 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1952 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1953 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1954 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1955 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
1958 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1960 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1961 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1962 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1963 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1964 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1966 + regenerated html manpages.
1969 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1970 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1971 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1972 + change recommended regular expression library.
1973 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1974 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1977 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1978 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1979 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1980 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1981 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1982 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1983 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1987 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1988 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1990 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1993 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1995 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1997 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1998 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1999 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2001 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2003 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2006 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2007 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2008 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2009 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2011 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2012 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2013 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2016 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2017 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2019 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2022 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2024 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2026 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2028 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2029 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2030 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2031 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2032 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2033 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2034 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2037 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2038 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2040 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2041 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2042 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2043 database (cf: 20111001).
2046 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2047 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2048 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2050 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2051 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2053 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2054 in older FreeBSD machines.
2055 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2056 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2057 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2060 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2061 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2062 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2063 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2064 root's home directory.
2065 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2066 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2067 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2068 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2069 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2071 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2072 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2073 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2074 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2075 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2076 (report by Peter Kruse).
2079 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2080 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2082 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2084 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2085 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2086 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2089 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2090 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2091 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2092 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2093 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2094 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2097 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2098 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2099 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2100 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2101 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2104 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2105 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2106 input and output of termcap source.
2107 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2108 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2109 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2110 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2111 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2112 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2113 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2114 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2115 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2118 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2121 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2123 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2124 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2125 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2126 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2128 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2131 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2132 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2134 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2135 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2138 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2139 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2141 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2142 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2144 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2145 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2146 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2147 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2149 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2150 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2151 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2152 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2154 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2155 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2158 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2159 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2160 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2161 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2164 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2165 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2166 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2167 + add terminator entry -TD
2168 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2169 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2170 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2174 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2175 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2176 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2177 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2178 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2179 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2180 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2181 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2182 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2183 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2187 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2188 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2189 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2190 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2191 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2192 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2194 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2195 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2196 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2198 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2201 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2202 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2203 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2204 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2206 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2207 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2209 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2210 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2211 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2212 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2213 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2214 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2215 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2216 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2218 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2219 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2221 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2222 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2223 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2224 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2225 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2226 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2227 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2228 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2229 translating to termcap.
2230 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2231 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2234 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2235 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2236 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2237 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2238 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2239 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2241 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2242 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2243 regarding Schilling's test program):
2244 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2245 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2246 + use \040 rather than \s
2247 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2248 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2251 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2252 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2253 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2254 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2255 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2256 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2257 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2258 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2259 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2260 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2261 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2262 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2265 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2266 are not used in the $CC variable.
2267 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2268 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2269 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2270 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2271 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2272 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2275 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2276 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2280 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2281 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2282 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2283 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2284 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2286 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2287 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2289 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2292 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2293 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2296 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2297 + set default prefix to /usr.
2298 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2299 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2300 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2301 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2304 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2305 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2306 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2307 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2309 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2310 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2314 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2317 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2318 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2319 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2321 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2322 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2323 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2324 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2327 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2328 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2329 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2330 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2331 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2332 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2333 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2334 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2335 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2336 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2337 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2340 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2341 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2343 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2344 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2345 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2346 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2349 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2350 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2351 as different types on some Unix systems.
2352 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2353 function pointer passed to tputs().
2354 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2355 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2356 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2357 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2360 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2361 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2362 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2363 + update config.guess, config.sub
2366 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2368 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2369 some ncurses packages.
2370 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2371 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2372 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2374 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2377 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2378 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2379 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2380 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2381 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2382 needed for rpm script.
2383 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2384 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2385 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2388 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2389 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2390 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2391 that sample program.
2392 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2393 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2394 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2395 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2399 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2401 + regen Ada html documentation.
2402 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2403 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2405 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2407 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2408 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2409 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2410 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2411 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2412 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2414 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2415 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2417 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2418 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2421 + regen Ada html documentation.
2422 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2423 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2425 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2426 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2427 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2428 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2429 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2430 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2431 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2432 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2433 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2434 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2435 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2436 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2437 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2438 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2439 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2440 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2441 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2442 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2443 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2446 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2447 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2448 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2450 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2452 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2453 explain.txt is not found.
2456 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2457 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2458 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2459 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2460 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2462 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2465 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2466 + regenerated html manpages.
2467 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2469 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2470 a new install of hashed database.
2471 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2474 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2475 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2476 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2477 wide-character configuration.
2478 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2479 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2482 + regenerated html manpages.
2483 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2484 special case of trace configuration.
2487 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2488 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2489 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2490 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2491 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2495 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2496 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2497 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2498 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2499 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2501 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2502 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2505 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2506 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2507 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2508 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2509 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2510 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2511 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2512 file configuration if that is used.
2513 + update config.guess, config.sub
2516 + regenerated html manpages.
2517 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2519 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2520 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2523 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2524 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2527 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2528 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2529 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2532 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2534 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2535 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2536 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2537 wide-character configuration.
2538 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2539 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2540 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2543 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2544 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2545 version which works with termcap.
2546 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2547 (request by Sven Joachim).
2548 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2549 (report by Sven Joachim).
2552 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2553 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2554 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2557 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2559 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2560 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2563 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2565 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2566 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2567 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2568 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2569 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2570 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2574 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2575 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2576 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2578 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2581 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2583 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2587 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2589 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2590 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2591 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2592 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2593 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2594 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2595 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2596 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2597 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2598 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2599 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2600 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2603 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2604 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2605 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2606 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2607 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2608 external package "cindent".
2611 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2612 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2613 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2614 inconsistent printer-controls.
2615 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2616 form is available -TD
2617 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2619 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2621 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2622 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2623 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2624 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2625 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2627 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2628 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2632 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2633 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2634 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2635 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2636 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2638 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2641 + regenerated html manpages.
2642 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2643 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2644 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2647 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2649 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2650 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2651 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2652 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2656 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2657 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2660 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2661 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2662 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2663 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2664 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2665 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2666 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2670 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2671 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2672 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2673 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2674 by Tim van der Molen).
2675 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2676 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2677 library configuration.
2678 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2679 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2680 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2683 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2685 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2686 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2687 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2688 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2689 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2692 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2693 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2694 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2695 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2696 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2697 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2698 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2699 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2702 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2703 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2704 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2705 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2706 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2707 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2708 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2709 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2712 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2713 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2714 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2715 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2718 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2719 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2720 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2723 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2724 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2725 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2728 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2729 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2730 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2731 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2734 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2735 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2736 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2738 + update Ada95/configure.
2739 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2740 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2741 of updating LIBS variable.
2744 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2745 work with 64-bit compiles.
2746 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2750 + regenerated html documentation.
2751 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2753 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2754 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2755 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2756 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2759 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2760 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2762 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2763 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2764 build- and target-machines differ.
2765 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2766 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2768 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2769 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2772 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2773 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2774 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2775 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2776 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2777 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2778 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2779 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2780 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2781 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2782 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2783 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2784 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2785 found in predefined libraries.
2786 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2789 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2790 (patch by David Benjamin).
2791 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2792 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2793 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2794 may be defined by that route.
2797 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2798 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2799 the predefined include directories.
2800 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2801 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2802 where older versions would produce an error.
2805 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2806 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2807 terminfo to termcap strings
2808 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2809 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2810 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2811 directory was already added.
2812 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2813 directories (which will be ignored).
2816 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2817 + discard motion events
2818 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2819 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2820 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2821 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2824 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2825 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2826 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2827 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2828 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2829 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2830 extended-colors configuration.
2831 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2832 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2833 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2836 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2838 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2839 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2840 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2842 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2843 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2844 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2847 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2848 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2852 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2853 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2854 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2855 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2856 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2857 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2858 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2859 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2860 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2864 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2865 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2866 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2867 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2870 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2872 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2873 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2874 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2877 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2878 making those separately distributable.
2879 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2880 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2884 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2887 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2888 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2889 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2890 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2894 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2895 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2896 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2897 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2900 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2901 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2902 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2903 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2905 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2906 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2907 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2908 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2912 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2913 that line-drawing works.
2914 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2915 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2916 capabilities can run.
2917 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2921 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2922 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2923 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2924 before older in the list.
2925 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2926 + minor documentation cleanup.
2927 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2928 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2929 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2932 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2933 most common case of SGR 0.
2934 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2935 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2936 events remain, it will return ERR.
2939 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2940 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2941 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2942 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2943 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2946 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2947 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2948 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2951 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2952 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2953 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2954 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2955 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2956 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2959 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2960 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2961 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2962 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2963 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2965 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2967 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2969 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2970 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2971 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2973 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2974 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2977 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2978 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2980 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2981 writing terminfo entries.
2982 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2983 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2984 by Nicholas Marriott).
2987 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2989 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2990 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2994 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2995 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2996 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2997 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2998 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3002 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3003 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3004 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3005 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3008 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3009 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3010 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3011 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3012 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3013 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3014 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3017 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3018 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3019 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3020 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3021 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3022 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3023 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3024 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3025 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3026 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3027 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3030 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3031 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3032 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3033 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3036 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3037 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3040 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3041 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3042 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3046 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3047 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3048 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3049 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3050 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3052 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3053 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3056 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3057 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3058 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3059 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3060 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3061 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3063 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3064 library (some work remains for forms library).
3067 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3068 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3069 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3070 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3072 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3073 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3074 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3075 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3078 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3079 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3082 test/test_addchstr.c
3083 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3084 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3085 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3086 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3089 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3091 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3092 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3093 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3094 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3098 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3099 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3100 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3101 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3104 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3105 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3106 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3109 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3112 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3113 broken in 20090510 merging.
3114 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3115 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3116 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3117 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3118 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3119 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3120 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3121 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3123 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3126 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3127 implementation details of hash function.
3130 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3131 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3132 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3135 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3136 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3137 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3138 test/demo_terminfo.c
3139 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3140 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3143 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3144 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3148 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3151 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3153 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3154 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3155 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3156 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3157 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3159 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3160 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3161 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3164 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3165 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3166 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3169 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3170 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3172 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3175 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3176 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3178 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3179 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3183 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3184 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3185 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3188 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3191 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3194 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3195 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3196 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3197 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3200 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3203 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3204 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3205 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3206 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3210 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3213 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3214 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3217 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3220 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3224 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3227 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3228 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3229 part of the form library.
3232 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3233 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3236 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3237 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3238 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3239 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3240 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3241 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3242 a temporary variable.
3243 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3244 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3245 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3246 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3247 with Charles Wilson).
3248 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3249 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3250 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3251 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3252 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3253 digits, after the final '.').
3254 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3255 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3256 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3257 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3258 from 20090321 changes.
3259 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3260 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3261 termlib) is to be linked.
3262 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3263 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3266 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3267 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3268 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3269 (report by Charles Wilson).
3270 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3271 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3272 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3273 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3274 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
3277 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
3278 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
3279 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
3280 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
3281 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
3283 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3284 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
3285 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
3286 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
3287 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
3288 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
3289 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
3290 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
3293 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3294 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
3295 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
3298 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3301 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
3303 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3304 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
3305 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
3306 some internals work is needed to complete these).
3307 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
3310 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
3311 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
3312 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
3313 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3314 + make it work with $DESTDIR
3315 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3318 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3319 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3321 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3322 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3323 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3326 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3327 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3328 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3329 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3330 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3331 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3332 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3333 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3334 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3337 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3338 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3340 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3342 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3343 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3346 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3348 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3349 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3350 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3351 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3354 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3355 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3356 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3358 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3359 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3362 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3363 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3364 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3365 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3366 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3367 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3369 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3370 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3372 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3373 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3376 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3377 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3378 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3381 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3382 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3383 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3385 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3386 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3389 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3391 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3392 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3393 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3395 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3396 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3397 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3398 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3399 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3400 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3402 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3403 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3406 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3407 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3408 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3409 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3410 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3411 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3412 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3413 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3414 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3415 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3416 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3419 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3420 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3421 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3422 passing color or video attributes.
3423 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3424 display meta-characters.
3425 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3426 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3427 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3428 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3432 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3433 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3434 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3436 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
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