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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1953 2012/09/08 22:05:39 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
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.
+ 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.
+ + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
20120902
+ regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).