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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 mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
50 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
51 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
52 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
53 the left margin of the display.
54 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
55 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
56 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
57 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
60 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
61 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
62 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
63 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
64 + regenerated html manpages.
65 + update doctype used for html documentation.
68 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
69 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
70 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
71 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
72 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
73 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
76 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
77 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
78 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
79 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
80 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
83 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
84 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
87 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
88 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
89 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
90 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
91 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
93 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
94 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
95 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
96 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
99 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
100 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
101 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
102 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
104 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
106 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
108 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
111 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
115 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
116 (report by Christian Ebert).
117 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
118 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
119 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
122 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
123 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
124 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
125 add bold for consistency with sgr,
126 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
127 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
128 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
130 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
131 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
132 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
133 line split after "%;".
134 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
135 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
138 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
139 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
140 + regenerated html manpages.
141 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
142 + updated some autoconf macros:
143 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
144 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
145 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
146 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
147 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
148 configuration (Redhat #911540).
149 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
150 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
153 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
154 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
156 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
157 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
159 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
160 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
161 of raw input in MinGW port.
164 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
165 + update config.guess, config.sub
168 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
170 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
172 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
173 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
174 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
175 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
176 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
177 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
178 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
180 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
181 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
184 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
185 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
187 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
188 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
189 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
192 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
193 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
194 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
197 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
198 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
199 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
201 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
202 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
203 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
204 by Dennis Grevenstein).
205 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
207 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
208 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
209 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
212 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
213 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
214 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
215 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
216 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
217 + improve error-checking in copywin
218 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
219 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
220 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
221 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
222 matching capability names.
223 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
224 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
225 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
228 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
229 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
230 are unused in the current driver model.
231 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
233 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
234 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
235 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
236 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
239 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
240 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
242 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
243 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
244 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
245 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
246 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
249 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
250 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
251 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
255 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
257 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
258 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
260 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
261 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
262 wide-character which can be used.
265 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
266 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
267 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
268 by Erwin Waterlander).
269 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
270 > fixes based on Coverity report:
271 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
272 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
273 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
274 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
278 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
279 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
280 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
281 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
282 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
283 > fixes based on Coverity report:
284 + remove a few redundant checks.
285 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
287 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
288 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
289 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
290 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
292 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
293 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
294 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
298 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
299 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
300 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
304 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
305 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
306 > fixes based on Coverity report:
307 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
310 > fixes based on Coverity report:
311 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
312 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
313 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
314 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
315 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
316 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
317 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
319 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
320 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
321 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
322 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
325 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
326 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
327 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
329 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
330 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
331 libraries or executables.
334 + realign these related pages:
339 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
340 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
341 (report by Reuben Thomas).
342 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
343 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
344 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
345 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
346 based on testing with tack -TD
347 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
348 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
351 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
353 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
354 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
355 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
358 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
362 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
363 (patch by Christian Persch).
366 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
368 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
369 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
370 has used that for a while.
371 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
372 for experimental use.
373 + remove unused configure macros.
374 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
375 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
376 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
377 + update config.guess, config.sub
380 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
381 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
382 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
383 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
384 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
385 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
386 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
389 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
390 to help with MinGW port.
393 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
395 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
398 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
401 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
402 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
403 might not be allocated.
404 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
407 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
408 initial screen-sizes.
409 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
410 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
414 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
415 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
419 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
420 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
421 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
423 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
424 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
427 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
428 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
429 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
430 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
431 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
432 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
433 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
437 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
438 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
439 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
440 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
441 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
442 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
443 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
444 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
448 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
449 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
450 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
451 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
452 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
453 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
456 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
460 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
462 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
464 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
465 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
466 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
467 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
468 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
469 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
472 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
474 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
475 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
476 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
478 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
479 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
482 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
483 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
484 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
487 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
488 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
490 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
491 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
493 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
494 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
497 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
499 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
500 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
501 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
502 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
503 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
504 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
507 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
508 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
509 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
510 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
511 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
512 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
513 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
514 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
515 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
517 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
518 analysis by Martin Husemann).
519 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
520 Onno van der Linden).
523 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
525 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
527 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
528 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
531 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
532 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
533 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
534 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
535 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
536 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
537 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
540 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
541 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
542 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
543 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
544 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
545 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
546 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
547 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
548 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
549 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
550 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
551 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
552 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
553 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
554 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
557 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
558 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
559 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
560 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
561 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
562 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
563 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
564 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
565 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
566 are interpreted as key definitions.
567 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
568 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
572 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
573 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
574 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
575 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
576 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
577 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
578 as building-blocks -TD
579 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
582 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
583 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
584 title is a status-line. -TD
585 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
586 of ordering and overrides -TD
587 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
588 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
589 used in that file -TD
592 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
593 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
594 definable capabilities.
595 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
596 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
597 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
598 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
599 embedded in the description.
600 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
601 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
602 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
603 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
604 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
605 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
608 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
609 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
610 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
611 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
613 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
614 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
615 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
618 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
619 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
620 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
621 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
622 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
623 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
626 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
627 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
628 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
630 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
631 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
632 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
633 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
636 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
637 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
638 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
641 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
642 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
643 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
645 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
646 calls to setupterm().
647 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
649 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
650 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
651 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
653 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
657 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
660 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
662 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
663 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
664 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
665 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
666 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
667 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
669 + update config.guess, config.sub
672 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
673 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
674 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
675 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
676 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
677 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
678 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
679 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
680 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
683 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
684 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
685 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
686 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
687 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
688 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
689 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
690 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
691 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
692 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
693 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
694 Linux versus most other systems.
697 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
701 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
702 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
703 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
704 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
705 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
706 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
707 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
708 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
709 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
710 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
711 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
712 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
713 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
714 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
717 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
719 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
721 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
722 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
723 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
724 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
727 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
729 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
730 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
731 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
732 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
733 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
735 + regenerated html manpages.
738 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
739 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
740 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
741 + change recommended regular expression library.
742 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
743 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
746 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
747 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
748 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
749 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
750 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
751 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
752 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
756 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
757 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
759 + add putty-sco entry -TD
762 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
764 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
766 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
767 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
768 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
770 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
772 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
775 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
776 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
777 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
778 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
780 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
781 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
782 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
785 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
786 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
788 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
791 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
793 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
795 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
797 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
798 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
799 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
800 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
801 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
802 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
803 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
806 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
807 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
809 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
810 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
811 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
812 database (cf: 20111001).
815 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
816 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
817 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
819 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
820 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
822 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
823 in older FreeBSD machines.
824 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
825 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
826 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
829 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
830 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
831 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
832 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
833 root's home directory.
834 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
835 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
836 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
837 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
838 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
840 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
841 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
842 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
843 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
844 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
845 (report by Peter Kruse).
848 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
849 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
851 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
853 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
854 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
855 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
858 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
859 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
860 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
861 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
862 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
863 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
866 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
867 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
868 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
869 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
870 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
873 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
874 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
875 input and output of termcap source.
876 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
877 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
878 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
879 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
880 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
881 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
882 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
883 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
884 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
887 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
890 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
892 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
893 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
894 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
895 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
897 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
900 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
901 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
903 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
904 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
907 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
908 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
910 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
911 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
913 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
914 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
915 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
916 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
918 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
919 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
920 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
921 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
923 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
924 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
927 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
928 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
929 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
930 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
933 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
934 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
935 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
936 + add terminator entry -TD
937 + add simpleterm entry -TD
938 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
939 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
943 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
944 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
945 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
946 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
947 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
948 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
949 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
950 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
951 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
952 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
956 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
957 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
958 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
959 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
960 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
961 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
963 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
964 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
965 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
967 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
970 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
971 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
972 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
973 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
975 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
976 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
978 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
979 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
980 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
981 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
982 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
983 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
984 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
985 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
987 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
988 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
990 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
991 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
992 tctest (cf: 19991211).
993 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
994 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
995 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
996 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
997 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
998 translating to termcap.
999 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1000 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1003 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1004 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1005 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1006 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1007 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1008 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1010 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1011 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1012 regarding Schilling's test program):
1013 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1014 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1015 + use \040 rather than \s
1016 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1017 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1020 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1021 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1022 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1023 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1024 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1025 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1026 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1027 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1028 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1029 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1030 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1031 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1034 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1035 are not used in the $CC variable.
1036 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1037 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1038 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1039 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1040 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1041 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1044 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1045 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1049 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1050 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1051 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1052 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1053 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1055 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1056 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1058 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1061 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1062 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1065 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1066 + set default prefix to /usr.
1067 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1068 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1069 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1070 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1073 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1074 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1075 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1076 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1078 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1079 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1083 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1086 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1087 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1088 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1090 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1091 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1092 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1093 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1096 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1097 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1098 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1099 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1100 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1101 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1102 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1103 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1104 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1105 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1106 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1109 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1110 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1112 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1113 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1114 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1115 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1118 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1119 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1120 as different types on some Unix systems.
1121 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1122 function pointer passed to tputs().
1123 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1124 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1125 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1126 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1129 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1130 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1131 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1132 + update config.guess, config.sub
1135 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1137 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1138 some ncurses packages.
1139 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1140 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1141 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1143 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1146 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1147 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1148 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1149 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1150 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1151 needed for rpm script.
1152 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1153 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1154 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1157 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1158 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1159 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1160 that sample program.
1161 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1162 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1163 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1164 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1168 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1170 + regen Ada html documentation.
1171 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1172 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1174 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1176 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1177 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1178 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1179 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1180 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1181 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1183 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1184 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1186 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1187 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1190 + regen Ada html documentation.
1191 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1192 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1194 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1195 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1196 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1197 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1198 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1199 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1200 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1201 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1202 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1203 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1204 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1205 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1206 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1207 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1208 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1209 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1210 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1211 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1212 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1215 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1216 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1217 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1219 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1221 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1222 explain.txt is not found.
1225 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1226 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1227 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1228 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1229 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1231 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1234 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1235 + regenerated html manpages.
1236 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1238 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1239 a new install of hashed database.
1240 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1243 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1244 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1245 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1246 wide-character configuration.
1247 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1248 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1251 + regenerated html manpages.
1252 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1253 special case of trace configuration.
1256 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1257 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1258 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1259 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1260 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1264 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1265 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1266 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1267 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1268 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1270 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1271 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1274 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1275 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1276 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1277 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1278 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1279 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1280 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1281 file configuration if that is used.
1282 + update config.guess, config.sub
1285 + regenerated html manpages.
1286 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1288 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1289 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1292 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1293 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1296 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1297 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1298 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1301 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1303 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1304 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1305 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1306 wide-character configuration.
1307 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1308 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1309 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1312 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1313 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1314 version which works with termcap.
1315 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1316 (request by Sven Joachim).
1317 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1318 (report by Sven Joachim).
1321 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1322 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1323 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1326 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1328 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1329 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1332 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1334 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1335 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1336 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1337 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1338 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1339 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1343 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1344 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1345 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1347 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1350 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1352 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1356 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1358 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1359 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1360 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1361 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1362 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1363 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1364 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1365 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1366 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1367 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1368 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1369 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1372 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1373 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1374 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1375 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1376 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1377 external package "cindent".
1380 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1381 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1382 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1383 inconsistent printer-controls.
1384 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1385 form is available -TD
1386 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1388 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1390 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1391 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1392 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1393 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1394 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1396 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1397 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1401 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1402 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1403 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1404 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1405 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1407 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1410 + regenerated html manpages.
1411 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1412 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1413 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1416 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1418 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1419 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1420 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1421 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1425 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1426 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1429 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1430 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1431 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1432 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1433 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1434 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1435 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1439 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1440 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1441 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1442 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1443 by Tim van der Molen).
1444 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1445 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1446 library configuration.
1447 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1448 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1449 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1452 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1454 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1455 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1456 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1457 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1458 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1461 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1462 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1463 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1464 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1465 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1466 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1467 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1468 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1471 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1472 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1473 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1474 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1475 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1476 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1477 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1478 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1481 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1482 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1483 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1484 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1487 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1488 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1489 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1492 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1493 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1494 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1497 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1498 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1499 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1500 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1503 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1504 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1505 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1507 + update Ada95/configure.
1508 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1509 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1510 of updating LIBS variable.
1513 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1514 work with 64-bit compiles.
1515 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1519 + regenerated html documentation.
1520 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1522 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1523 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1524 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1525 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1528 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1529 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1531 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1532 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1533 build- and target-machines differ.
1534 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1535 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1537 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1538 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1541 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1542 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1543 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1544 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1545 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1546 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1547 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1548 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1549 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1550 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1551 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1552 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1553 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1554 found in predefined libraries.
1555 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1558 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1559 (patch by David Benjamin).
1560 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1561 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1562 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1563 may be defined by that route.
1566 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1567 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1568 the predefined include directories.
1569 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1570 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1571 where older versions would produce an error.
1574 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1575 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1576 terminfo to termcap strings
1577 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1578 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1579 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1580 directory was already added.
1581 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1582 directories (which will be ignored).
1585 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1586 + discard motion events
1587 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1588 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1589 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1590 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1593 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1594 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1595 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1596 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1597 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1598 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1599 extended-colors configuration.
1600 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1601 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1602 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1605 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1607 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1608 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1609 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1611 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1612 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1613 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1616 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1617 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1621 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1622 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1623 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1624 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1625 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1626 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1627 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1628 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1629 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1633 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1634 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1635 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1636 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1639 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1641 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1642 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1643 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1646 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1647 making those separately distributable.
1648 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1649 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1653 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1656 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1657 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1658 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1659 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1663 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1664 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1665 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1666 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1669 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1670 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1671 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1672 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1674 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1675 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1676 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1677 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1681 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1682 that line-drawing works.
1683 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1684 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1685 capabilities can run.
1686 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1690 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1691 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1692 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1693 before older in the list.
1694 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1695 + minor documentation cleanup.
1696 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1697 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1698 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1701 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1702 most common case of SGR 0.
1703 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1704 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1705 events remain, it will return ERR.
1708 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1709 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1710 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1711 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1712 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1715 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1716 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1717 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1720 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1721 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1722 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1723 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1724 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1725 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1728 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1729 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1730 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1731 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1732 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1734 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1736 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1738 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1739 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1740 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1742 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1743 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1746 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1747 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1749 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1750 writing terminfo entries.
1751 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1752 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1753 by Nicholas Marriott).
1756 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1758 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1759 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1763 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1764 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1765 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1766 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1767 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1771 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1772 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1773 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1774 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1777 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1778 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1779 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1780 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1781 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1782 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1783 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1786 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1787 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1788 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1789 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1790 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1791 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1792 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1793 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1794 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1795 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1796 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1799 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1800 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1801 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1802 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1805 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1806 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1809 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1810 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1811 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1815 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1816 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1817 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1818 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1819 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1821 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1822 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1825 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1826 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1827 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1828 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1829 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1830 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1832 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1833 library (some work remains for forms library).
1836 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1837 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1838 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1839 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1841 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1842 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1843 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1844 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1847 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1848 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1851 test/test_addchstr.c
1852 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1853 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1854 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1855 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1858 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1860 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1861 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1862 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1863 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1867 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1868 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1869 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1870 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1873 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1874 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1875 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1878 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1881 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1882 broken in 20090509 merging.
1883 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1884 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1885 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1886 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1887 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1888 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1889 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1890 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1892 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1895 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1896 implementation details of hash function.
1899 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1900 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1901 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1904 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1905 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1906 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1907 test/demo_terminfo.c
1908 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1909 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1912 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1913 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1917 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1920 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1922 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1923 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1924 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1925 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1926 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1928 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1929 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1930 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1933 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1934 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1935 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1938 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1939 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1941 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1944 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1945 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1947 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1948 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1952 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1953 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1954 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1957 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1960 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1963 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1964 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1965 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1966 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1969 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1972 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1973 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1974 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1975 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1979 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1982 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1983 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1986 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1989 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1993 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1996 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1997 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1998 part of the form library.
2001 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2002 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2005 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2006 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2007 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2008 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2009 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2010 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2011 a temporary variable.
2012 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2013 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2014 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2015 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2016 with Charles Wilson).
2017 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2018 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2019 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2020 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2021 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2022 digits, after the final '.').
2023 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2024 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2025 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2026 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2027 from 2009031 changes.
2028 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2029 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2030 termlib) is to be linked.
2031 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2032 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2035 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2036 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2037 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2038 (report by Charles Wilson).
2039 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2040 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2041 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2042 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2043 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2046 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2047 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2048 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2049 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2050 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2052 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2053 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2054 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2055 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2056 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2057 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2058 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2059 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2062 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2063 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2064 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2067 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2070 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2072 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2073 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2074 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2075 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2076 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2079 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2080 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2081 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2082 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2083 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2084 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2087 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2088 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2090 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2091 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2092 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2095 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2096 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2097 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2098 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2099 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2100 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2101 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2102 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2103 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2106 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2107 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2109 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2111 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2112 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2115 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2117 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2118 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2119 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2120 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2123 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2124 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2125 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2127 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2128 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2131 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2132 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2133 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2134 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2135 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2136 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2138 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2139 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2141 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2142 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2145 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2146 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2147 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2150 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2151 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2152 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2154 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2155 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2158 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2160 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2161 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2162 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2164 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2165 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2166 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2167 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2168 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2169 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2171 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2172 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2175 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2176 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2177 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2178 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2179 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2180 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2181 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2182 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2183 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2184 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2185 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2188 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2189 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2190 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2191 passing color or video attributes.
2192 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2193 display meta-characters.
2194 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2195 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2196 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2197 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2201 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2202 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2203 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2205 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2208 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2210 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2211 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2213 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2216 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2217 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2218 does not work well on that platform).
2219 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2222 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2223 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2224 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2226 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2227 --disable-database is used.
2228 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2229 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2230 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2231 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2235 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2236 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2237 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2238 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2239 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2240 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2241 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2245 + regenerated html documentation.
2246 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2247 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2248 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2249 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2250 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2251 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2252 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2253 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2256 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2257 works for C/C++ parts).
2258 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2259 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2262 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2263 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2264 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2265 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2266 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2267 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2268 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2269 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2270 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2272 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2273 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2274 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2275 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2276 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2277 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2280 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2281 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2284 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2285 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2286 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2287 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2288 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2289 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2292 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2293 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2296 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2300 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2301 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2302 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2303 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2305 + update test/configure script.
2306 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2307 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2308 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2309 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2310 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2313 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2314 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2316 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2318 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2319 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2320 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2321 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2322 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2323 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2324 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2325 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2326 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2329 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2330 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2331 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2332 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2333 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2334 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2335 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2336 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2337 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2338 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2339 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2343 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2344 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2345 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2346 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2347 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2349 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2350 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2351 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2352 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2353 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2356 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2357 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2358 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2359 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2360 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2361 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2362 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2365 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2369 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2372 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2375 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2376 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2378 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2379 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2380 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2384 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2385 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2387 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2388 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2389 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2390 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2393 + regenerated html documentation.
2394 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2395 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2396 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2397 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2398 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2401 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2402 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2403 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2407 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2408 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2409 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2410 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2411 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2412 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2415 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2416 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2418 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2419 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2420 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2421 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2422 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2423 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2424 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2425 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2426 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2429 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2430 screen which must be updated.
2431 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2432 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2433 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2437 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2438 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2440 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2441 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2442 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2443 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2446 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2447 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2448 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2450 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2454 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2455 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2456 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2459 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2460 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2461 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2462 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2465 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2466 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2468 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2470 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2473 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2474 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2475 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2476 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2477 python-dev2 mailing list).
2480 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2481 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2482 are not associated with a particular screen.
2483 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2484 stdscr to the callback function.
2485 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2486 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2487 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2488 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2489 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2490 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2491 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2495 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2496 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2497 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2498 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2500 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2501 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2502 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2503 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2504 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2507 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2508 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2509 that the 'F' accepts.
2510 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2511 are working concurrently.
2512 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2516 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2517 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2518 _nc_free_and_exit().
2521 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2522 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2525 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2526 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2529 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2530 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2531 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2532 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2535 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2536 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2537 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2538 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2539 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2540 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2542 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2543 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2547 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2548 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2549 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2552 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2553 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2554 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2557 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2558 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2559 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2563 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2564 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2565 "link_test" builds properly.
2566 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2567 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2568 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2569 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2570 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2571 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2572 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2574 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2577 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2581 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2582 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2585 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2587 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2588 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2589 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2592 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2593 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2594 pierre4d2 comments).
2595 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2596 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2597 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2598 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2602 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2603 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2604 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2605 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2606 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2608 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2609 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2610 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2614 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2615 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2618 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2620 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2622 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2626 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2627 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2629 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2630 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2631 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2632 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2633 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2635 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2636 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2639 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2640 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2641 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2642 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2645 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2646 calls within the ncurses library.
2647 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2649 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2650 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2651 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2653 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2654 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2655 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2656 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2657 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2660 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2661 for threaded library (incomplete).
2662 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2663 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2667 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2668 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2669 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2670 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2671 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2672 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2673 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2674 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2675 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2678 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2680 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2681 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2684 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2685 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2686 "\0" followed by a digit.
2687 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2688 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2689 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2690 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2691 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2692 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2693 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2694 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2695 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2698 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2699 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2700 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2701 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2702 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2704 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2705 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2706 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2710 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2711 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2712 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2713 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2714 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2715 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2716 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2717 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2718 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2721 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2722 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2723 + add test/test_getstr.c
2724 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2725 + add test/test_instr.c
2728 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2729 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2730 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2734 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2735 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2736 ".log" to the name and try again.
2737 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2738 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2739 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2740 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2741 --disable-echo option is used.
2742 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2743 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
2744 + update config.guess, config.sub
2747 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2748 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2749 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2753 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2754 problems with multi-column characters.
2755 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2756 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2757 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2758 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2759 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2760 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2761 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2764 + add test/demo_panels.c
2765 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2768 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2770 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2771 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2774 + add test/key_name.c
2775 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2776 + update test/configure
2777 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2778 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2779 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2783 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2784 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2785 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2786 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2787 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2788 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2789 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2790 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2791 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2794 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2795 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2796 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2797 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2798 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2799 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2802 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2803 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2805 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2806 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2807 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2808 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2811 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2812 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2813 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2814 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2816 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2818 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2819 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2820 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2821 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2822 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2825 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2826 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2828 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2829 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2830 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2831 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2832 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2833 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2834 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2835 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2836 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2837 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2838 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2841 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2842 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2843 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2844 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2845 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2846 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2847 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2850 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2851 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2852 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2853 Ada95 tree is not built.
2856 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2857 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2858 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2859 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2860 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2861 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2863 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2864 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2865 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2866 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2867 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2868 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2869 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2870 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2871 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2872 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2873 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2874 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2875 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2876 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2877 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2878 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2879 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2880 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2881 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2883 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2884 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2885 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2886 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2887 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2888 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2889 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2890 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2891 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2894 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2895 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2896 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2897 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2898 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2899 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2900 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2901 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2905 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2906 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2907 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2908 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2909 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2913 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2914 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2915 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2916 in the configure script to an error.
2917 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2918 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2919 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2920 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2921 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2923 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2924 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2927 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2928 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2931 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2932 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2934 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2935 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2936 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2937 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2938 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2939 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2940 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2941 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2944 + regenerated html documentation.
2945 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2946 opaque in selected configurations.
2947 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2948 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2949 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2950 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2951 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2952 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2953 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2954 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2955 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2956 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2957 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2959 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2960 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2963 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2964 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2965 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2966 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2967 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2968 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2969 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2970 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2971 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2972 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2973 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2974 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2977 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2979 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2980 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2981 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2983 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2984 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2985 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2986 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2987 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2988 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2989 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2990 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2992 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2993 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2996 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2997 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2999 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3001 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3002 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3003 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3006 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3007 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3008 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3009 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3011 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3012 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3013 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3014 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3015 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3016 no longer relies on it.
3017 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3018 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3019 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3022 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3023 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3026 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3027 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3028 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3029 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3030 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3031 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3032 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3033 its license consistent with ncurses.
3034 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3035 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3036 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3039 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3040 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3041 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3042 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3046 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3047 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3048 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3050 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3051 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3054 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3055 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3056 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3059 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3060 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3061 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3062 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3063 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3064 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3065 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3066 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3067 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3068 to manpages as needed.
3069 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3070 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3073 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3074 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3075 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3076 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3077 + update config.guess, config.sub
3079 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3082 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3083 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3084 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3085 correct nor portable.
3086 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3088 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3089 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3093 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3094 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3095 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3096 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3097 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3098 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3101 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3102 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3103 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3104 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3106 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3107 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3108 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3109 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3110 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3111 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3112 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3113 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3116 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3117 database configuration.
3118 + updates for test/configure script.
3119 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3120 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3122 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3123 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3124 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3125 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3127 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3128 _nc_printf_string().
3129 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3130 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3133 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3134 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3136 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3137 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3141 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3142 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3145 + add test/echochar.c
3146 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3147 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3150 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3151 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3152 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3153 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3156 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3157 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3158 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3160 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3161 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3162 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3163 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3164 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3165 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3166 Ralf S Engelschall).
3167 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3168 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3169 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3170 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3173 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3174 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3175 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3178 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3179 and status line (Alain Bench).
3180 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3181 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3182 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3183 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3186 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3187 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3188 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3189 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3190 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3193 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3194 + updated html documentation.
3195 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3196 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3199 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3200 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3201 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3202 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3203 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3204 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3205 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3206 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3207 by report by Christopher Parker).
3211 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3212 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3213 since it does not really do this -TD
3216 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3217 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3218 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3219 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3222 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3223 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3224 embedded into a termcap description.
3225 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3226 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3227 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3228 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3229 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3232 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3234 + add test/foldkeys.c
3237 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3238 source output (Debian #378783).
3239 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3240 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3241 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3242 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3243 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3244 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3247 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3248 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3249 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3252 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3253 or as a text file if those are not available.
3254 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3255 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3256 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3259 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3260 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3261 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3262 + update config.guess, config.sub
3265 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3266 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3267 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3269 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3270 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3272 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3273 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3274 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3275 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3276 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3277 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3279 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3280 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3281 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3282 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3285 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3286 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3290 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3291 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3293 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3294 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3295 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3296 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3297 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3298 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3301 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3302 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3303 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3304 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3305 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3306 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3307 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3308 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3309 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3310 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3313 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3314 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3315 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3316 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3318 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3321 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3322 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3323 + minor copyright fixes.
3324 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3327 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3328 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3329 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3330 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3331 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3332 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3333 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3334 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3336 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3337 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3338 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3339 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3341 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3344 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3345 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3347 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3348 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3349 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3350 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3352 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3353 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3354 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3355 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3358 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3359 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3360 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3361 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3362 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3363 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3364 + update config.guess, config.sub
3365 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3366 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3367 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3368 function is broken in that implementation.
3371 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3372 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3375 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3376 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3378 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3379 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3381 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3382 reported to implement this feature -TD
3385 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3386 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3389 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3390 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3391 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3392 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3393 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3394 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3395 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3396 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3399 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3400 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3402 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3403 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3406 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3407 (report by Alain Bench).
3408 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3409 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3410 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3411 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3413 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3414 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3415 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3419 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3420 and/or video attributes.
3421 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3422 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3425 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3428 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3429 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3430 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3431 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3432 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3433 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3434 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3435 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3436 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3439 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3440 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3441 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3444 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3445 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3446 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3447 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3448 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3449 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3450 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3451 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3452 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3453 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3456 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3457 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3458 rather than delayed.
3459 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3461 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3462 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3463 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3466 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3468 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3469 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3472 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3473 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3476 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3477 + suppress line-drawing
3478 + implement max_attributes
3480 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3481 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3485 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3486 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3488 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3490 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3491 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3492 etc., when allocating screens.
3495 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3496 this in test/filter.c
3497 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3501 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3502 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3503 + add extension nofilter().
3504 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3505 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3506 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3507 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3508 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3511 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3512 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3513 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3514 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3515 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3516 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3517 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3518 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3519 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3521 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3522 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3523 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3525 + update config.guess and config.sub
3528 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3529 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3530 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3532 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3533 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3534 that was never built in that directory).
3535 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3538 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3540 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3541 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3545 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3546 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3547 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3548 effect of the different functions.
3549 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3553 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3554 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3556 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3560 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3561 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3562 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3564 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3565 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3569 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3570 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3571 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3573 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3574 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3575 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3578 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3579 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3580 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3583 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3584 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3585 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3587 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3588 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3591 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3592 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3593 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3594 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3595 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3596 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3597 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3600 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3601 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3602 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3604 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3605 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3606 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3607 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3608 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3610 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3613 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3616 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3617 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3621 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3622 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3623 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3624 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3625 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3627 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3628 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3631 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3632 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3633 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3634 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3635 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3636 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3637 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3638 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3639 default if it is used.
3640 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3641 --with-abi-version option was used.
3642 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3643 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3644 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3647 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3648 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3649 handlers (Debian #326709).
3652 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3653 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3655 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3658 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3659 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3660 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3661 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3663 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3664 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3667 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3668 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3669 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3670 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3671 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3672 + update llib-l* files.
3675 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3676 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3677 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3678 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3682 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3683 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3684 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3685 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3686 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3687 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3688 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3689 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3690 Konstantin Andreev).
3693 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3694 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3695 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3696 several related cases -TD
3697 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3698 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3700 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3701 resets line-drawing.
3704 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
3706 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
3707 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
3708 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
3709 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
3710 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
3711 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
3714 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
3715 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
3716 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
3718 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
3719 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
3722 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3723 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3724 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
3725 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
3726 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
3727 "make install.data" step.
3728 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
3729 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
3730 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
3731 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
3732 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
3733 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
3734 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
3735 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
3736 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
3737 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
3738 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
3739 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
3740 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
3741 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
3744 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3747 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
3748 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
3749 review of Debian package).
3750 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
3751 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
3752 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
3753 install using libtool 1.5.0):
3754 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
3756 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
3757 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
3758 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
3759 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
3760 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3763 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
3764 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
3765 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
3768 + fixes for termcap support:
3769 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
3770 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
3771 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
3772 extended names data will be freed consistently.
3773 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
3775 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
3776 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
3777 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
3778 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
3781 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
3782 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
3783 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
3784 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
3786 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
3790 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
3792 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
3793 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
3796 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
3797 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
3798 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
3799 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
3800 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3801 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
3802 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
3806 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
3807 shift-, control-cursor keys.
3808 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
3809 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
3810 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
3811 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
3812 it will automatically be treated as a key.
3813 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
3814 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
3815 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
3819 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
3820 + add configure option --enable-largefile
3821 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
3825 + update config.guess, config.sub
3826 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
3827 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
3828 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
3829 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
3830 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
3832 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
3833 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
3834 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
3837 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
3838 position the mouse to a particular item.
3839 + implement test/demo_menus.c
3840 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
3841 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
3842 --enable-const option.
3845 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
3846 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
3847 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
3848 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
3849 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
3850 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
3851 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
3852 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
3853 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
3854 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
3855 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
3858 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
3860 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
3861 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3864 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
3865 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
3866 anyone used that configuration.
3867 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
3869 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
3870 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3873 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
3874 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
3875 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
3877 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
3878 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
3879 WenRui, Debian #300512).
3882 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
3883 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
3884 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
3888 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
3889 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
3890 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
3891 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
3892 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
3895 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
3897 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
3899 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
3900 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3901 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
3904 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
3906 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
3907 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
3908 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
3909 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
3910 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
3911 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
3912 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
3913 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
3914 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
3915 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
3916 right (cf: 20040228).
3917 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
3918 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3921 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
3922 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
3923 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
3924 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
3925 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
3926 added (Debian #295083).
3927 + add traces to panel library.
3930 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
3931 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
3932 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
3933 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
3934 mouse events in this case.
3935 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
3936 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3939 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
3940 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
3941 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
3942 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
3943 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
3944 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
3945 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
3946 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
3949 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
3950 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
3951 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
3952 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
3953 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
3954 already been started.
3955 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
3956 pair_content() and color_content().
3957 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
3958 if it corresponds to the default-color.
3959 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
3960 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
3961 color pairs which are allowed.
3962 + add a top-level tags rule.
3965 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
3966 first calling initscr().
3967 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
3968 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
3969 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
3970 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
3971 that are curses-specific.
3972 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
3973 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
3974 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
3975 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
3979 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
3980 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
3981 for leading whitespace.
3982 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
3983 where a following line begins in column 1.
3984 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
3985 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
3988 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3991 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3992 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
3993 + update config.guess, config.sub
3994 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
3995 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
3996 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
3997 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
3998 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
3999 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
4000 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
4003 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
4005 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
4006 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
4009 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
4010 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
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