ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121006

[ncurses.git] / NEWS

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1943 2012/08/25 20:02:00 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1962 2012/10/06 19:48:38 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,54 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20121006
+       + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
+         --version message.
+       + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
+         + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
+           has used that for a while.
+         + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
+           for experimental use.
+         + remove unused configure macros.
+       + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
+         for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
+       + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20120922
+       + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
+         for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
+       + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
+         use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
+         "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
+       + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
+         older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
+
+20120908
+       + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
+         to help with MinGW port.
+
+20120903
+       + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
+         there.
+       + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
+
+20120902
+       + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
+
+20120901
+       + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
+       + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
+         might not be allocated.
+       + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
+
+20120826
+       + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
+         initial screen-sizes.
+       + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
+         after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
+         Roumen Petrov).
+
 20120825
        + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
          rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
@@ -62,7 +110,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
        + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
        + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
-         by CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
+         for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
          Sven Joachim, cf:  20120317).
        + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
          --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,