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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 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
50 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
51 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
52 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
53 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
55 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
56 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
57 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
58 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
59 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
60 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
62 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
63 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
64 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
65 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
66 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
67 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
69 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
70 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
72 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
73 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
75 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
76 the ncurses library aside from headers.
77 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
78 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
79 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
80 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
81 + update config.guess, config.sub from
82 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
85 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
86 (report by Todd M Lewis).
87 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
88 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
89 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
90 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
91 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
92 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
94 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
95 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
96 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
97 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
98 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
99 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
100 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
103 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
104 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
105 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
106 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
107 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
108 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
109 with the shared libraries.
110 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
111 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
112 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
113 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
114 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
115 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
116 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
117 inherit into new windows.
120 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
121 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
122 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
123 readonly text segment.
126 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
127 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
130 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
131 the extended putwin/getwin.
132 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
134 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
138 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
139 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
140 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
141 for a magic code at the beginning:
142 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
145 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
147 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
148 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
151 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
152 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
153 (report by Grady Martin).
156 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
157 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
158 the wide-character libraries.
159 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
161 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
162 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
165 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
166 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
167 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
171 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
172 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
175 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
176 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
177 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
178 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
179 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
182 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
183 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
184 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
187 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
188 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
189 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
191 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
192 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
193 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
194 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
195 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
196 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
197 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
198 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
199 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
200 (report by Pavel Balaev).
203 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
204 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
205 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
206 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
210 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
211 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
215 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
219 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
220 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
221 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
223 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
224 regenerate html-manpages.
227 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
228 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
230 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
231 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
232 package for ncurses6.
233 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
234 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
235 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
236 in the corresponding ".map" files.
237 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
238 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
242 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
243 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
244 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
245 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
247 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
248 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
249 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
250 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
253 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
254 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
255 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
256 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
257 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
260 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
261 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
262 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
263 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
264 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
265 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
266 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
270 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
271 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
275 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
279 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
280 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
281 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
282 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
283 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
285 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
286 (report by Mike Gran).
289 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
290 demonstration of its limitations.
291 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
292 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
293 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
294 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
295 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
296 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
297 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
299 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
300 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
303 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
304 + implement flash in win_driver.c
305 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
307 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
308 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
309 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
310 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
311 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
312 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
313 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
314 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
317 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
318 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
319 some older cross-compiler environments.
320 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
321 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
322 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
323 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
324 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
325 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
326 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
327 + update config.sub from
328 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
331 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
333 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
336 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
338 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
341 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
342 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
343 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
346 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
347 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
351 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
352 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
353 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
356 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
357 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
358 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
359 + regenerated html manpages.
360 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
361 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
362 which reverses cause/effect.
363 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
364 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
365 + fixes for win_driver.c:
366 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
371 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
372 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
373 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
374 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
376 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
377 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
378 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
379 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
383 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
384 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
385 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
386 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
387 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
388 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
389 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
390 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
391 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
394 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
395 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
396 options, from xterm changes.
399 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
400 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
404 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
405 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
408 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
409 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
410 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
411 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
412 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
413 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
414 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
417 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
418 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
419 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
420 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
421 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
422 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
423 providing directly comparable screens.
424 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
427 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
429 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
430 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
431 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
432 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
433 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
434 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
435 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
438 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
439 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
440 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
441 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
442 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
445 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
446 overlap with sgr functionality.
447 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
448 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
449 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
450 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
451 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
452 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
453 older ncurses than 20131207.
454 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
455 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
456 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
457 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
458 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
461 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
462 environment variable.
463 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
464 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
465 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
466 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
467 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
468 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
469 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
470 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
471 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
472 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
473 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
474 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
475 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
476 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
478 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
480 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
481 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
482 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
484 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
485 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
486 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
487 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
488 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
489 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
490 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
492 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
494 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
495 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
496 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
497 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
498 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
499 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
500 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
501 to be consecutive anyway.
502 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
503 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
504 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
505 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
508 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
509 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
510 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
513 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
514 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
515 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
516 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
519 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
521 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
522 simplify later merging:
523 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
524 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
525 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
526 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
527 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
531 + update config.guess, config.sub from
532 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
535 + modify configure script:
536 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
537 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
538 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
539 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
540 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
541 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
542 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
543 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
545 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
546 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
549 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
550 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
551 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
552 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
553 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
554 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
558 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
561 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
562 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
563 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
564 + add terminology entry -TD
565 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
566 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
569 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
570 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
571 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
572 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
573 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
577 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
578 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
579 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
580 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
581 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
584 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
587 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
588 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
589 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
593 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
594 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
595 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
596 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
597 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
598 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
600 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
601 html emitted by docbook.
604 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
605 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
606 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
607 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
610 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
611 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
612 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
613 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
614 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
615 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
618 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
619 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
620 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
621 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
624 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
625 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
628 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
630 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
633 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
634 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
635 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
636 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
638 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
640 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
641 + updated llib-l* files.
644 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
645 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
649 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
653 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
654 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
655 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
656 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
657 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
658 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
659 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
660 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
661 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
662 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
663 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
664 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
665 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
666 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
668 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
670 + update config.sub from
671 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
674 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
677 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
678 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
679 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
680 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
682 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
685 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
686 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
687 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
688 them more consistent with other packages.
691 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
692 compiling ncurses-examples.
693 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
696 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
699 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
700 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
701 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
702 cross-compiles to MinGW.
703 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
707 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
708 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
712 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
713 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
715 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
717 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
718 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
719 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
720 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
721 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
724 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
725 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
726 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
729 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
731 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
732 before/after Debian #700177.
733 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
734 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
736 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
737 of sort, improving portability.
738 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
739 + update config.guess, config.sub from
740 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
743 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
744 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
746 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
747 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
748 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
751 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
752 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
753 introduced by Debian #700177.
754 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
755 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
758 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
759 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
761 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
762 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
763 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
766 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
767 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
769 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
770 cross-compile support packages.
771 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
774 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
775 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
776 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
777 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
778 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
779 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
780 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
781 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
782 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
783 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
784 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
785 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
788 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
789 initialization of cur_term.
792 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
793 + minor compiler-warning fixes
796 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
797 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
798 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
799 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
800 --enable-auto-import flag.
801 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
805 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
806 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
807 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
808 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
809 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
811 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
812 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
813 (patch by Eric Raymond).
816 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
817 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
818 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
820 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
821 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
822 not printing the full pathname of the program.
823 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
824 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
825 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
828 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
829 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
831 + add test/dots_termcap.c
832 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
833 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
834 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
835 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
836 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
837 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
838 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
839 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
840 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
842 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
843 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
846 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
847 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
848 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
849 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
850 the left margin of the display.
851 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
852 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
853 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
854 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
857 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
858 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
859 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
860 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
861 + regenerated html manpages.
862 + update doctype used for html documentation.
865 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
866 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
867 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
868 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
869 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
870 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
873 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
874 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
875 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
876 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
877 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
880 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
881 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
884 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
885 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
886 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
887 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
888 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
890 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
891 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
892 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
893 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
896 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
897 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
898 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
899 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
901 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
903 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
905 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
908 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
912 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
913 (report by Christian Ebert).
914 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
915 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
916 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
919 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
920 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
921 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
922 add bold for consistency with sgr,
923 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
924 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
925 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
927 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
928 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
929 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
930 line split after "%;".
931 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
932 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
935 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
936 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
937 + regenerated html manpages.
938 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
939 + updated some autoconf macros:
940 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
941 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
942 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
943 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
944 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
945 configuration (Redhat #911540).
946 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
947 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
950 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
951 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
953 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
954 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
956 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
957 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
958 of raw input in MinGW port.
961 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
962 + update config.guess, config.sub
965 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
967 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
969 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
970 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
971 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
972 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
973 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
974 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
975 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
977 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
978 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
981 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
982 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
984 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
985 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
986 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
989 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
990 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
991 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
994 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
995 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
996 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
998 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
999 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1000 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1001 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1002 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1003 Dennis Grevenstein).
1004 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1005 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1006 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1009 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1010 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1011 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1012 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1013 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1014 + improve error-checking in copywin
1015 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1016 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1017 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1018 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1019 matching capability names.
1020 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1021 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1022 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1025 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1026 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1027 are unused in the current driver model.
1028 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1030 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1031 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1032 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1033 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1036 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1037 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1039 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1040 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1041 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1042 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1043 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1046 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1047 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1048 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1052 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1054 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1055 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1057 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1058 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1059 wide-character which can be used.
1062 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1063 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1064 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1065 by Erwin Waterlander).
1066 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1067 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1068 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1069 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1070 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1071 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1075 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1076 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1077 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1078 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1079 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1080 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1081 + remove a few redundant checks.
1082 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1084 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1085 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1086 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1087 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1089 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1090 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1091 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1095 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1096 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1097 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1101 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1102 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1103 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1104 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1107 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1108 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1109 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1110 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1111 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1112 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1113 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1114 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1116 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1117 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1118 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1119 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1122 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1123 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1124 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1126 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1127 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1128 libraries or executables.
1131 + realign these related pages:
1136 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1137 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1138 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1139 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1140 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1141 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1142 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1143 based on testing with tack -TD
1144 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1145 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1148 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1150 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1151 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1152 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1155 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1159 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1160 (patch by Christian Persch).
1163 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1165 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1166 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1167 has used that for a while.
1168 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1169 for experimental use.
1170 + remove unused configure macros.
1171 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1172 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1173 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1174 + update config.guess, config.sub
1177 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1178 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1179 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1180 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1181 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1182 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1183 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1186 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1187 to help with MinGW port.
1190 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1192 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1195 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1198 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1199 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1200 might not be allocated.
1201 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1204 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1205 initial screen-sizes.
1206 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1207 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1211 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1212 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1216 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1217 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1218 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1220 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1221 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1224 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1225 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1226 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1227 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1228 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1229 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1230 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1234 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1235 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1236 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1237 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1238 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1239 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1240 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1241 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1245 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1246 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1247 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1248 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1249 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1250 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1253 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1257 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1259 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1261 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1262 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1263 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1264 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1265 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1266 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1269 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1271 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1272 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1273 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1275 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1276 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1279 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1280 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1281 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1284 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1285 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1287 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1288 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1290 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1291 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1294 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1296 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1297 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1298 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1299 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1300 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1301 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1304 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1305 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1306 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1307 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1308 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1309 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1310 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1311 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1312 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1314 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1315 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1316 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1317 Onno van der Linden).
1320 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1322 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1324 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1325 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1328 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1329 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1330 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1331 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1332 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1333 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1334 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1337 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1338 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1339 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1340 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1341 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1342 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1343 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1344 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1345 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1346 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1347 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1348 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1349 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1350 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1351 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1354 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1355 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1356 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1357 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1358 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1359 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1360 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1361 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1362 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1363 are interpreted as key definitions.
1364 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1365 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1369 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1370 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1371 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1372 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1373 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1374 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1375 as building-blocks -TD
1376 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1379 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1380 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1381 title is a status-line. -TD
1382 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1383 of ordering and overrides -TD
1384 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1385 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1386 used in that file -TD
1389 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1390 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1391 definable capabilities.
1392 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1393 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1394 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1395 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1396 embedded in the description.
1397 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1398 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1399 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1400 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1401 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1402 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1405 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1406 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1407 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1408 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1409 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1410 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1411 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1412 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1415 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1416 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1417 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1418 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1419 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1420 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1423 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1424 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1425 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1427 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1428 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1429 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1430 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1433 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1434 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1435 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1438 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1439 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1440 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1442 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1443 calls to setupterm().
1444 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1446 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1447 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1448 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1450 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1454 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1457 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1459 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1460 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1461 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1462 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1463 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1464 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1466 + update config.guess, config.sub
1469 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1470 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1471 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1472 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1473 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1474 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1475 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1476 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1477 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1480 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1481 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1482 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1483 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1484 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1485 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1486 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1487 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1488 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1489 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1490 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1491 Linux versus most other systems.
1494 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1498 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1499 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1500 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1501 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1502 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1503 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1504 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1505 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1506 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1507 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1508 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1509 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1510 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1511 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1514 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1516 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1518 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1519 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1520 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1521 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1524 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1526 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1527 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1528 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1529 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1530 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1532 + regenerated html manpages.
1535 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1536 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1537 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1538 + change recommended regular expression library.
1539 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1540 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1543 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1544 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1545 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1546 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1547 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1548 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1549 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1553 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1554 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1556 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1559 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1561 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1563 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1564 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1565 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1567 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1569 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1572 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1573 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1574 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1575 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1577 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1578 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1579 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1582 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1583 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1585 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1588 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1590 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1592 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1594 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1595 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1596 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1597 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1598 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1599 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1600 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1603 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1604 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1606 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1607 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1608 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1609 database (cf: 20111001).
1612 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1613 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1614 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1616 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1617 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1619 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1620 in older FreeBSD machines.
1621 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1622 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1623 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1626 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1627 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1628 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1629 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1630 root's home directory.
1631 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1632 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1633 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1634 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1635 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1637 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1638 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1639 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1640 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1641 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1642 (report by Peter Kruse).
1645 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1646 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1648 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1650 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1651 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1652 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1655 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1656 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1657 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1658 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1659 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1660 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1663 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1664 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1665 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1666 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1667 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1670 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1671 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1672 input and output of termcap source.
1673 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1674 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1675 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1676 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1677 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1678 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1679 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1680 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1681 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1684 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1687 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1689 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1690 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1691 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1692 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1694 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1697 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1698 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1700 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1701 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1704 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1705 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1707 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1708 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1710 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1711 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1712 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1713 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1715 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1716 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1717 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1718 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1720 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1721 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1724 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1725 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1726 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1727 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1730 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1731 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1732 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1733 + add terminator entry -TD
1734 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1735 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1736 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1740 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1741 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1742 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1743 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1744 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1745 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1746 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1747 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1748 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1749 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1753 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1754 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1755 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1756 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1757 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1758 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1760 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1761 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1762 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1764 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1767 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1768 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1769 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1770 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1772 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1773 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1775 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1776 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1777 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1778 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1779 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1780 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1781 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1782 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1784 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1785 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1787 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1788 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1789 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1790 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1791 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1792 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1793 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1794 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1795 translating to termcap.
1796 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1797 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1800 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1801 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1802 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1803 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1804 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1805 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1807 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1808 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1809 regarding Schilling's test program):
1810 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1811 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1812 + use \040 rather than \s
1813 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1814 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1817 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1818 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1819 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1820 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1821 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1822 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1823 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1824 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1825 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1826 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1827 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1828 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1831 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1832 are not used in the $CC variable.
1833 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1834 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1835 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1836 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1837 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1838 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1841 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1842 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1846 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1847 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1848 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1849 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1850 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1852 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1853 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1855 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1858 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1859 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1862 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1863 + set default prefix to /usr.
1864 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1865 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1866 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1867 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1870 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1871 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1872 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1873 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1875 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1876 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1880 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1883 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1884 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1885 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1887 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1888 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1889 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1890 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1893 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1894 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1895 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1896 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1897 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1898 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1899 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1900 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1901 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1902 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1903 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1906 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1907 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1909 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1910 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1911 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1912 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1915 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1916 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1917 as different types on some Unix systems.
1918 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1919 function pointer passed to tputs().
1920 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1921 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1922 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1923 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1926 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1927 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1928 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1929 + update config.guess, config.sub
1932 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1934 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1935 some ncurses packages.
1936 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1937 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1938 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1940 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1943 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1944 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1945 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1946 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1947 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1948 needed for rpm script.
1949 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1950 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1951 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1954 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1955 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1956 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1957 that sample program.
1958 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1959 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1960 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1961 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1965 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1967 + regen Ada html documentation.
1968 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1969 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1971 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1973 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1974 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1975 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1976 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1977 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1978 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1980 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1981 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1983 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1984 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1987 + regen Ada html documentation.
1988 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1989 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1991 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1992 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1993 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1994 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1995 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1996 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1997 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1998 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1999 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2000 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2001 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2002 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2003 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2004 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2005 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2006 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2007 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2008 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2009 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2012 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2013 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2014 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2016 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2018 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2019 explain.txt is not found.
2022 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2023 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2024 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2025 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2026 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2028 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2031 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2032 + regenerated html manpages.
2033 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2035 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2036 a new install of hashed database.
2037 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2040 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2041 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2042 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2043 wide-character configuration.
2044 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2045 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2048 + regenerated html manpages.
2049 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2050 special case of trace configuration.
2053 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2054 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2055 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2056 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2057 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2061 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2062 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2063 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2064 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2065 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2067 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2068 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2071 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2072 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2073 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2074 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2075 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2076 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2077 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2078 file configuration if that is used.
2079 + update config.guess, config.sub
2082 + regenerated html manpages.
2083 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2085 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2086 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2089 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2090 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2093 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2094 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2095 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2098 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2100 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2101 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2102 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2103 wide-character configuration.
2104 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2105 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2106 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2109 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2110 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2111 version which works with termcap.
2112 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2113 (request by Sven Joachim).
2114 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2115 (report by Sven Joachim).
2118 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2119 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2120 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2123 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2125 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2126 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2129 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2131 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2132 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2133 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2134 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2135 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2136 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2140 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2141 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2142 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2144 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2147 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2149 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2153 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2155 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2156 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2157 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2158 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2159 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2160 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2161 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2162 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2163 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2164 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2165 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2166 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2169 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2170 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2171 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2172 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2173 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2174 external package "cindent".
2177 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2178 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2179 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2180 inconsistent printer-controls.
2181 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2182 form is available -TD
2183 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2185 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2187 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2188 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2189 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2190 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2191 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2193 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2194 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2198 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2199 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2200 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2201 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2202 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2204 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2207 + regenerated html manpages.
2208 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2209 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2210 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2213 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2215 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2216 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2217 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2218 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2222 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2223 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2226 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2227 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2228 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2229 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2230 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2231 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2232 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2236 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2237 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2238 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2239 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2240 by Tim van der Molen).
2241 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2242 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2243 library configuration.
2244 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2245 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2246 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2249 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2251 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2252 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2253 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2254 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2255 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2258 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2259 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2260 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2261 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2262 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2263 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2264 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2265 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2268 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2269 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2270 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2271 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2272 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2273 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2274 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2275 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2278 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2279 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2280 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2281 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2284 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2285 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2286 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2289 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2290 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2291 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2294 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2295 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2296 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2297 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2300 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2301 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2302 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2304 + update Ada95/configure.
2305 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2306 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2307 of updating LIBS variable.
2310 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2311 work with 64-bit compiles.
2312 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2316 + regenerated html documentation.
2317 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2319 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2320 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2321 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2322 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2325 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2326 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2328 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2329 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2330 build- and target-machines differ.
2331 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2332 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2334 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2335 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2338 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2339 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2340 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2341 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2342 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2343 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2344 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2345 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2346 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2347 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2348 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2349 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2350 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2351 found in predefined libraries.
2352 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2355 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2356 (patch by David Benjamin).
2357 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2358 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2359 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2360 may be defined by that route.
2363 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2364 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2365 the predefined include directories.
2366 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2367 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2368 where older versions would produce an error.
2371 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2372 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2373 terminfo to termcap strings
2374 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2375 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2376 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2377 directory was already added.
2378 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2379 directories (which will be ignored).
2382 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2383 + discard motion events
2384 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2385 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2386 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2387 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2390 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2391 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2392 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2393 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2394 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2395 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2396 extended-colors configuration.
2397 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2398 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2399 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2402 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2404 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2405 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2406 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2408 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2409 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2410 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2413 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2414 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2418 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2419 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2420 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2421 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2422 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2423 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2424 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2425 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2426 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2430 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2431 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2432 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2433 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2436 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2438 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2439 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2440 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2443 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2444 making those separately distributable.
2445 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2446 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2450 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2453 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2454 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2455 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2456 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2460 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2461 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2462 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2463 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2466 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2467 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2468 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2469 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2471 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2472 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2473 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2474 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2478 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2479 that line-drawing works.
2480 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2481 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2482 capabilities can run.
2483 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2487 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2488 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2489 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2490 before older in the list.
2491 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2492 + minor documentation cleanup.
2493 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2494 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2495 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2498 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2499 most common case of SGR 0.
2500 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2501 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2502 events remain, it will return ERR.
2505 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2506 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2507 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2508 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2509 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2512 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2513 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2514 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2517 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2518 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2519 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2520 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2521 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2522 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2525 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2526 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2527 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2528 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2529 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2531 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2533 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2535 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2536 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2537 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2539 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2540 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2543 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2544 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2546 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2547 writing terminfo entries.
2548 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2549 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2550 by Nicholas Marriott).
2553 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2555 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2556 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2560 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2561 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2562 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2563 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2564 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2568 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2569 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2570 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2571 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2574 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2575 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2576 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2577 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2578 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2579 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2580 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2583 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2584 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2585 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2586 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2587 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2588 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2589 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2590 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2591 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2592 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2593 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2596 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2597 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2598 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2599 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2602 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2603 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2606 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2607 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2608 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2612 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2613 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2614 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2615 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2616 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2618 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2619 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2622 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2623 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2624 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2625 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2626 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2627 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2629 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2630 library (some work remains for forms library).
2633 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2634 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2635 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2636 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2638 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2639 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2640 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2641 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2644 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2645 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2648 test/test_addchstr.c
2649 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2650 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2651 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2652 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2655 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2657 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2658 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2659 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2660 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2664 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2665 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2666 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2667 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2670 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2671 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2672 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2675 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2678 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2679 broken in 20090510 merging.
2680 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2681 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2682 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2683 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2684 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2685 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2686 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2687 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2689 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2692 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2693 implementation details of hash function.
2696 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2697 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2698 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2701 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2702 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2703 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2704 test/demo_terminfo.c
2705 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2706 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2709 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2710 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2714 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2717 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2719 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2720 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2721 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2722 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2723 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2725 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2726 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2727 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2730 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2731 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2732 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2735 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2736 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2738 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2741 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2742 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2744 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2745 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2749 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2750 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2751 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2754 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2757 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2760 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2761 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2762 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2763 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2766 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2769 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2770 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2771 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2772 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2776 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2779 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2780 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2783 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2786 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2790 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2793 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2794 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2795 part of the form library.
2798 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2799 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2802 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2803 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2804 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2805 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2806 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2807 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2808 a temporary variable.
2809 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2810 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2811 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2812 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2813 with Charles Wilson).
2814 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2815 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2816 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2817 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2818 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2819 digits, after the final '.').
2820 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2821 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2822 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2823 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2824 from 20090321 changes.
2825 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2826 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2827 termlib) is to be linked.
2828 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2829 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2832 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2833 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2834 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2835 (report by Charles Wilson).
2836 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2837 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2838 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2839 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2840 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2843 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2844 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2845 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2846 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2847 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2849 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2850 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2851 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2852 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2853 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2854 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2855 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2856 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2859 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2860 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2861 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2864 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2867 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2869 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2870 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2871 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2872 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2873 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2876 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2877 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2878 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2879 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2880 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2881 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2884 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2885 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2887 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2888 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2889 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2892 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2893 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2894 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2895 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2896 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2897 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2898 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2899 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2900 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2903 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2904 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2906 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2908 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2909 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2912 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2914 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2915 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2916 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2917 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2920 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2921 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2922 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2924 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2925 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2928 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2929 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2930 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2931 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2932 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2933 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2935 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2936 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2938 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2939 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2942 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2943 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2944 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2947 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2948 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2949 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2951 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2952 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2955 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2957 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2958 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2959 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2961 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2962 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2963 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2964 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2965 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2966 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2968 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2969 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2972 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2973 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2974 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2975 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2976 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2977 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2978 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2979 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2980 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2981 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2982 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2985 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2986 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2987 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2988 passing color or video attributes.
2989 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2990 display meta-characters.
2991 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2992 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2993 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2994 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2998 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2999 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3000 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3002 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3005 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3007 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3008 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3010 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3013 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3014 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3015 does not work well on that platform).
3016 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3019 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3020 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3021 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3023 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3024 --disable-database is used.
3025 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3026 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3027 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3028 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3032 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3033 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3034 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3035 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3036 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3037 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3038 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3042 + regenerated html documentation.
3043 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3044 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3045 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3046 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3047 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3048 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3049 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3050 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3053 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3054 works for C/C++ parts).
3055 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3056 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3059 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3060 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3061 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3062 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3063 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3064 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3065 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3066 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3067 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3069 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3070 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3071 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3072 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3073 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3074 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3077 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3078 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3081 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3082 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3083 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3084 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3085 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3086 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3089 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3090 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3093 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3097 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3098 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3099 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3100 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3102 + update test/configure script.
3103 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3104 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3105 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3106 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3107 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3110 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3111 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3113 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3115 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3116 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3117 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3118 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3119 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3120 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3121 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3122 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3123 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3126 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3127 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3128 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3129 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3130 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3131 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3132 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3133 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3134 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3135 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3136 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3140 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3141 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3142 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3143 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3144 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3146 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3147 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3148 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3149 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3150 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3153 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3154 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3155 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3156 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3157 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3158 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3159 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3162 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3166 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3169 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3172 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3173 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3175 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3176 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3177 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3181 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3182 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3184 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3185 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3186 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3187 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3190 + regenerated html documentation.
3191 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3192 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3193 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3194 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3195 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3198 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3199 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3200 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3204 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3205 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3206 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3207 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3208 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3209 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3212 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3213 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3215 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3216 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3217 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3218 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3219 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3220 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3221 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3222 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3223 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3226 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3227 screen which must be updated.
3228 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3229 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3230 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3234 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3235 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3237 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3238 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3239 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3240 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3243 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3244 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3245 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3247 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3251 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3252 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3253 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3256 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3257 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3258 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3259 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3262 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3263 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3265 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3267 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3270 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3271 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3272 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3273 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3274 python-dev2 mailing list).
3277 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3278 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3279 are not associated with a particular screen.
3280 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3281 stdscr to the callback function.
3282 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3283 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3284 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3285 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3286 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3287 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3288 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3292 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3293 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3294 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3295 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3297 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3298 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3299 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3300 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3301 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3304 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3305 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3306 that the 'F' accepts.
3307 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3308 are working concurrently.
3309 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3313 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3314 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3315 _nc_free_and_exit().
3318 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3319 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3322 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3323 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3326 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3327 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3328 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3329 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3332 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3333 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3334 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3335 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3336 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3337 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3339 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3340 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3344 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3345 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3346 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3349 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3350 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3351 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3354 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3355 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3356 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3360 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3361 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3362 "link_test" builds properly.
3363 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3364 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3365 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3366 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3367 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3368 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3369 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3371 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3374 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3378 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3379 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3382 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3384 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3385 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3386 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3389 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3390 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3391 pierre4d2 comments).
3392 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3393 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3394 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3395 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3399 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3400 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3401 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3402 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3403 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3405 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3406 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3407 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3411 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3412 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3415 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3417 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3419 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3423 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3424 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3426 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3427 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3428 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3429 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3430 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3432 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3433 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3436 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3437 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3438 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3439 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3442 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3443 calls within the ncurses library.
3444 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3446 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3447 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
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