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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1665 2011/03/19 23:25:18 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.
+20110507
+ + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
+ script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
+ there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
+ (report by Gunter Schaffler).
+ + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
+ "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
+ + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
+ configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
+ ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
+ + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
+ (report by Joachim Schmitz).
+
+20110430
+ + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
+ is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
+ Boulenguez):
+ + 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):
+
+20110423
+ + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
+ + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
+ as different types on some Unix systems.
+ + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
+ function pointer passed to tputs().
+ + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
+ assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
+ + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
+ assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
+
+20110416
+ + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
+ the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
+ and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20110409
+ + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
+ Kolesen).
+ + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
+ some ncurses packages.
+ + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
+ + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
+ test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
+
+20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20110402
+ + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
+ + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
+ packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
+ the in-tree build of sample programs.
+ + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
+ needed for rpm script.
+ + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
+ making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
+ options if building a shared library with gnat.
+
+20110329
+ > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
+ + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
+ needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
+ that sample program.
+ + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
+ + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
+ which were added in 5.7 and later.
+ + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
+ upon GNU sed.
+
+20110326
+ + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
+ code.
+ + regen Ada html documentation.
+ + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
+ + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
+ builds.
+ + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
+ CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS.
+ + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
+ libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
+ + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
+ + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
+ + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
+ package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
+ Pavlu).
+ > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
+ + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
+ pragmas.
+ + suppress unreferenced warnings.
+ + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
+
20110319
+ regen Ada html documentation.
+ change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
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