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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1509 2010/03/06 21:03:02 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.
+20100515
+ + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
+ new EINTR feature is enabled.
+ + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
+ a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
+ + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
+ + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
+ "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
+ Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
+ feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
+ with the standard builds of ncurses.
+ + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
+ + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
+ + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
+ found in predefined libraries.
+ + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
+
+20100501
+ + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
+ (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
+ + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
+ included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
+ may be defined by that route.
+
+20100424
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+ + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
+ the predefined include directories.
+ + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
+ with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
+ where older versions would produce an error.
+
+20100417
+ + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
+ + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
+ terminfo to termcap strings
+ + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
+ which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
+ + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
+ directory was already added.
+ + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
+ directories (which will be ignored).
+
+20100410
+ + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
+ + discard motion events
+ + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
+ + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
+ + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
+ cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
+
+20100403
+ + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
+ + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
+ environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
+ (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
+ + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
+ + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
+ extended-colors configuration.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
+ + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
+ configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
+
+20100327
+ + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
+ reusable.
+ + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
+ + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
+ (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
+ given library.
+ + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
+ normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
+ Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
+
+20100320
+ + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
+ newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
+ Hourihane).
+
+20100313
+ + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
+ install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
+ option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
+ + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
+ compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
+ ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
+ + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
+ TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
+ Kaseorg).
+
20100306
+ generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
(suggested by Sven Joachim).
(request by Mike Aubury).
+ add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
stdbool.h, e.g.,
- #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
+ #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
#include <curses.h>
(discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
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