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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1812 2011/10/30 14:36:41 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.
+20120204
+ + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
+ better diagnostics.
+
+20120128
+ + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
+ + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
+ + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
+ + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
+ + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
+ give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
+ consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
+ (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20120121
+ + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
+ of OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
+ port.
+ + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
+ path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
+ directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
+ + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+
+20120114
+ + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
+ Linux Mint forum):
+ + modify movement commands to make them continuous
+ + rewrote the test for mvderwin
+ + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
+ + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
+ + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
+ and OpenBSD.
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+
+20120107
+ + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
+ + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
+ + change recommended regular expression library.
+ + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
+ + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
+
+20111231
+ + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
+ a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
+ + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
+ + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
+ caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
+ + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
+ given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
+ by Sven Joachim).
+
+20111224
+ + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
+ with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
+ analysis.
+ + add putty-sco entry -TD
+
+20111217
+ + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
+ was not being used.
+ + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
+ could use.
+ + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
+ are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
+ the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
+ and termlib.
+ + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
+ enabled.
+ + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
+
+20111210
+ + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
+ pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
+ + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
+ for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
+ _SGI_SOURCE.
+ + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
+ tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
+ + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
+
+20111203
+ + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
+ copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
+ Debian #646977).
+ + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
+
+20111126
+ + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
+ (cf: 20111001).
+ + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
+ absolute pathname.
+ + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
+ use.
+ + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
+ + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
+ generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
+ been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
+ + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
+ ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
+ from patch by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20111119
+ + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
+ from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
+ (cf: 20110416)
+ + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
+ i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
+ to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
+ database (cf: 20111001).
+
+20111112
+ + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
+ + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
+ 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
+ C++ header files.
+ + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
+ e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
+ by Robert Millan).
+ + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
+ in older FreeBSD machines.
+ + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
+ _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
+ + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
+
20111030
+ modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
20110212
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
- special case of trace configuration.
+ special case of trace configuration.
20110205
+ add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
version which works with termcap.
+ remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
(request by Sven Joachim).
- + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
(report by Sven Joachim).
20101128
Sven Joachim).
+ add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
> patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
- + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
- + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
+ + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
+ + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
+ use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
Joachim).
+ add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
20100417
+ modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
+ correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
- terminfo to termcap strings
+ 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
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