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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.
+20141220
+ + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
+ + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
+ together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
+ the ABI 5 libraries.
+ + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
+ regenerate html-manpages.
+
+20141213
+ + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
+ when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
+ De Meo).
+ + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
+ ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
+ package for ncurses6.
+ + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
+ is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
+ + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
+ in the corresponding ".map" files.
+ + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
+ from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+
+20141206
+ + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
+ the different library configurations has the same label. Some
+ review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
+ gcc introduced here:
+ https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
+ https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
+ (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
+ + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
+
+20141129
+ + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
+ ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
+ A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
+ symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
+ which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
+
+20141115
+ + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
+ curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
+ used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
+ + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
+ the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
+ + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
+ symbol-versioning.
+
+20141101
+ + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
+ and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
+ not apply.
+
+20141025
+ + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
+ msys2 configuration.
+
+20141018
+ + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
+ the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
+ + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
+ correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
+ in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
+ in recent changes.
+ + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
+ (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20141011
+ + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
+ demonstration of its limitations.
+ + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
+ + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
+ exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
+ + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
+ are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
+ to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
+ Greg Field).
+ + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
+ + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
+
+20140927
+ + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
+ + implement flash in win_driver.c
+ + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
+ focus.
+ + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
+ win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
+ window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
+ screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
+ + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
+ dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
+ for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
+ 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
+
+20140920
+ + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
+ + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
+ some older cross-compiler environments.
+ + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
+ (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
+ See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
+ which relates to the clarified guidelines.
+ + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
+ for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
+ + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
+ + update config.sub from
+ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20140913
+ + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
+ C++ cross-compilers.
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
+
+20140906
+ + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
+ NetBSD.
+ + minor compiler-warning fixes.
+
+20140831
+ + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
+ options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
+ a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
+
+20140823
+ + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
+ width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
+ cf: 20050813).
+
+20140816
+ + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
+ it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
+ + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
+
+20140809
+ + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
+ reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
+ in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
+ having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
+ which reverses cause/effect.
+ + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
+ have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
+ + fixes for win_driver.c:
+ + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
+ + implement beep().
+ + minor cleanup.
+
+20140802
+ + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
+ + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
+ + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
+ + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
+ "trace" feature:
+ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
+ + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
+ + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
+ typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
+ (cf: 20140726).
+
+20140726
+ + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
+ ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
+ discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
+ + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
+ + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
+ used to override the different treatment of justification for static
+ versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
+ + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
+ Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
+
+20140719
+ + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
+ + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
+ options, from xterm changes.
+
+20140712
+ + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
+ + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
+ without sp-funcs.
+
+20140705
+ + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
+ video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
+
+20140629
+ + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
+ NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
+ + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
+ subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
+ fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
+ + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
+ compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
+
+20140621
+ + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
+ conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
+ + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
+ upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
+ total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
+ providing directly comparable screens.
+ + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
+
+20140614
+ + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
+ (cf: 20140524).
+ + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
+ reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
+ + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
+ + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
+ + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
+ + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
+ + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
+
+20140609
+ > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
+ Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
+ + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
+ + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
+ screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
+
+20140607
+ + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
+ overlap with sgr functionality.
+ + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
+ option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
+ + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
+ + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
+ packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
+ + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
+ older ncurses than 20131207.
+ + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
+ + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
+ + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
+ + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
+ + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
+
+20140524
+ + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
+ environment variable.
+ + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
+ + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
+ + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
+ + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
+ terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
+ + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
+ + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
+ + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
+ + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
+ because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
+ stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
+ + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
+ activate additional checks which compare the results from running
+ tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
+ expressions.
+ + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
+ cf: 20120324).
+ > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
+ + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
+ + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
+ instead of <>.
+ + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
+ was removed by an obsolete pragma.
+ + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
+ available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
+ replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
+ + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
+ some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
+ compiler flags.
+ + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
+ package.
+ + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
+ + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
+ + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
+ + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
+ + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
+ + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
+ was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
+ to be consecutive anyway.
+ + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
+ + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
+ + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
+ + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
+
20140510
+ cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
+ workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
+ drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
+ extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
- + improve initialization for MinGW port (patch by Juergen Pfeifer):
+ + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
+ add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
+ allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
20130615
+ minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
- + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
+ + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
+ corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
tab-lists options.
+ allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
+ Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
- warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
+ warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
20110423
+ add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
+ quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
+ modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
- (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
+ (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
20091017
+ modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
20090815
+ correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
- broken in 20090509 merging.
+ broken in 20090510 merging.
+ modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
+ use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
20090718
+ fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
- 20070704 changes.
+ 20090704 changes.
+ modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
+ make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
using that in the libtool link-commands.
+ fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
- from 2009031 changes.
+ from 20090321 changes.
+ improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
termlib) is to be linked.
+ remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
(reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
- (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
+ (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
+ minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
+ add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
+ modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
+ modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
does not have getttynam().
+ extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
- + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
+ + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
+ improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
+ correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
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