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<blockquote>
<p><a href=
- "ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/">ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/</a>
+ "https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/">https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/</a>
or<br>
<a href=
"https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/">https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/</a> .</p>
</blockquote>
- <p>It is also available via anonymous FTP at the GNU distribution
- site</p>
+ <p>It is also available at the GNU distribution site</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
- "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/</a> .</p>
+ "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/">https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/</a> .</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="h2-release-notes" id="h2-release-notes">Release
Notes</a></h2>
<p>These notes are for <span class="main-name">ncurses</span>
- @VERSION@, released <strong>October 21, 2021</strong>.</p>
+ @VERSION@, released <strong>December 31, 2022</strong>.</p>
<p>This release is designed to be source-compatible with
- <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 5.0 through 6.2; providing
+ <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 5.0 through 6.3; providing
extensions to the application binary interface (ABI). Although
the source can still be configured to support the <span class=
"main-name">ncurses</span> 5 ABI, the reason for the release is
this announcement.</p>
<p>The most <a href="#h3-bug-fixes">important
- bug-fixes/improvements</a> dealt with portability issues. The
+ bug-fixes/improvements</a> dealt with robustness issues. The
release notes also mention some other bug-fixes, but are focused
on new features and improvements to existing features since
- <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 6.2 release.</p>
+ <span class="main-name">ncurses</span> 6.3 release.</p>
<h3><a name="h3-library" id="h3-library">Library improvements</a></h3>
<h4><a name="h4-new-library" id="h4-new-library">New features</a></h4>
- <p>There are a few new features:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>A new (experimental) driver, for the Windows Terminal
- configuration is provided.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>A script is provided which enables <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/ncurses-openbsd.html">OpenBSD</a> users to
- upgrade their system to use ncurses 6.3 (OpenBSD developers
- are also invited to do this).</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Additionally, to improve performance other changes (and
- extensions) are provided in this release:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button
- numbers, convert those to position reports.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add sp-funcs for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_termattrs.3x.html#h3-erasechar_-erasewchar">
- erasewchar</a>, <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_termattrs.3x.html#h3-killchar_-killwchar">
- killwchar</a>.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <p>There are no new features in this release.</p>
<h4><a name="h4-fixes-library" id="h4-fixes-library">Other
improvements</a></h4>
- <p>These are revised features:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with
- SVr4 curses in its treatment of interrupt and quit
- characters</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>These were done to limit or ultimately deprecate features:</p>
+ <p>These are improvements to existing features:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>prevent <tt>KEY_EVENT</tt> from appearing in
- <tt>curses.h</tt> unless the configure option
- <code>--enable-wgetch-events</code> is used.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>modify <tt>MKkey_defs.sh</tt> to hide ncurses'
- definition of <tt>KEY_EVENTS</tt> to reduce <em>Visual
- Studio C++</em> redefinition warnings.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <p>modify <tt>delscreen</tt> to more effectively delete all
+ windows on the given screen.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from
- deprecation warnings.</p>
+ <p>modify <tt>wnoutrefresh</tt> to call <tt>pnoutrefresh</tt>
+ if its parameter is a pad, rather than treating it as an
+ error, and modify new_panel to permit its window-parameter to
+ be a pad</p>
</li>
- </ul>
- <p>These are improvements to existing features:</p>
+ <li>
+ <p>modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols,
+ e.g., <tt>TRACE_ORDINARY</tt>, <tt>DEBUG_LEVEL(3)</tt>.</p>
+ </li>
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>drop symbols <em>GCC_PRINTF</em> and <em>GCC_SCANF</em>
- from <curses.h>, to simplify use.</p>
+ <p>improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate
+ mouse state is not part of the mousemask specified by the
+ caller</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a
- va_list parameter rather than a “<tt>...</tt>”
- variable-length parameter list.</p>
+ <p>allow extended-color number in <em>opts</em> parameter of
+ <tt>wattr_on</tt>.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify <term.h> so that it is not necessary to
- include <curses.h> before <term.h>.</p>
+ <p>improve <tt>_tracecchar_t2</tt> formatting of
+ base+combining character.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>provide for wide-characters as background character in
- wbkgrnd</p>
+ <p>trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config
+ and .pc files seen in Fedora 36+.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function
- _nc_tiparm() to handle the most-used case, which accepts only
- numeric parameters.</p>
+ <p>improve shell-scripts with <em>shellcheck</em></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>use return-value from <em>vsnprintf</em> to reallocate as
- needed to allow for buffers larger than the screen size.</p>
+ <p>improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using a
+ script.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>add another <em>fflush(stdout)</em> in <em>_nc_flush</em>
- to handle time-delays in the middle of strings such as flash
- when the application uses low-level calls rather than
- curses.</p>
+ <p>modify <tt>make-tar.sh</tt> scripts to make timestamps
+ more predictable.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>add a check to guard against <em>repeat_char</em> emitting
- digits which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when
- <tt>--enable-bsdpad</tt> is configured.</p>
+ <p>modify <tt>misc/gen-pkgconfig.in</tt> to allow for the
+ case where the library directory does not yet exist, since
+ this is processed before doing an install</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>check for screen size-change in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_scr_dump.3x.html">scr_init</a> and
- <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_scr_dump.3x.html">scr_restore</a>, in
- case a screen dump does not match the current screen
- dimensions</p>
+ <p>set trailing null on string passed from <tt>winsnstr</tt>
+ to <tt>wins_nwstr</tt>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify <tt>waddch_literal</tt> to allow for double-width
+ base character when merging a combining character</p>
</li>
</ul>
<dl>
<dt><span class="part-name"><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/tabs.1.html">tabs</a></span>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/infocmp.1m.html">infocmp</a></span>
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
- <li>
- <p>implement “<tt>+m</tt>” option</p>
- </li>
+ <li>rewrite <tt>canonical_name</tt> function of
+ <tt>infocmp</tt> to ensure buffer size</li>
+
+ <li>improve readability of long parameterized expressions
+ with the infocmp “<tt>-f</tt>” option by
+ allowing split before a “<tt>%p</tt>”
+ marker.</li>
+
+ <li>modify verbose-option of <tt>infocmp</tt>,
+ <tt>tic</tt>, <tt>toe</tt> to enable debug-tracing if that
+ is configured.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name"><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/tic.1m.html">tic</a></span>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/tabs.1.html">tabs</a></span>
</dt>
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>add check for duplicate “<tt>use=</tt>”
- clauses.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add check to report instances where <tt>tparm</tt>
- would detect an error in an expression.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add user-defined capabilities from <em>mintty</em> to
- <tt>Caps-ncurses</tt>, for checking consistency.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49
- for <em>xterm</em> compatible <code>XT</code> flag.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve checks for number of parameters of
- <code>smglp</code>, <code>smgrp</code>,
- <code>smgtp</code>, and <code>smgbp</code>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve “<tt>-c</tt>” option to validate
- the number and type of parameters and compare against
- expected number/type before deciding which set of
- parameter-lists to use in tparm calls.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve check for errors detected in
- <code>tparm</code>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve format of output, to ensure that the messages
- contain only printable text.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>modify to eliminate unnecessary
- “<code>\</code>” to escape
- “<code>:</code>” in terminfo format.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>remove check that assumes that none or both
- parameterized and non-parameterized margin-setting
- capabilities are present.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
+ <dd>limit tab-stop values to max-columns</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name"><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/toe.1m.html">toe</a></span>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/tic.1m.html">tic</a></span>
</dt>
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>modify output of “<tt>toe -as</tt>” to
- show first description found rather than the last.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add a check to ensure that a “termcap
- file” is text rather than binary.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
+ <dd>add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ
+ capabilities.</dd>
<dt><span class="part-name"><a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/man/tput.1.html">tput</a></span>
</dt>
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>modify to allow multiple commands per line.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve parameter-checking by analyzing all extended
- string capabilities, e.g., as used in the <code>Cs</code>
- and <code>Ms</code> capabilities of the <em>tmux</em>
- description.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>make warning messages consistently using alias names
- when those are used, rather than the underlying program's
- name.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>improve usage message for aliases such as
- <em>clear</em>, by eliminating <em>tput</em>-specific
- portions.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>modify initialization to avoid opening
- <tt>/dev/tty</tt> for cases other than
- <em>reset/init</em>, e.g., for <em>clear</em>.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
+ <dd>corrected use of original tty-modes in <em>init/reset</em>
+ subcommands</dd>
</dl>
<h4><a name="h4-examples" id="h4-examples">Examples</a></h4>
<p>Along with the library and utilities, improvements were made
to the <a href=
"@HOMEPAGE@/ncurses-examples.html">ncurses-examples</a>. Most of
- this activity aimed at improving the test-packages. A few changes
- are more generally useful, e.g., for the main ncurses
- test-program, and for analyzing traces using the
- <em>tracemunch</em> script:</p>
+ this activity aimed at improving the test-packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>add “<tt>-r</tt>” option to the <em>dots</em>
- test-programs, to help with scripting a performance
- comparison.</p>
+ <p>add minimal <tt>-h</tt> (usage) and <tt>-V</tt> (version)
+ getopt logic to all ncurses-examples programs.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>build-fix for <em>test_opaque</em>, for configurations
- without opaque curses structs, e.g., ncurses 5.7.</p>
+ <p>fix an error in "@" command in <tt>test/ncurses.c</tt>
+ F-menu</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve <em>tracemunch</em> logic for "RUN"
- compaction.</p>
+ <p>add curses_trace to ifdef's for <tt>START_TRACE</tt> in
+ <tt>test/test.priv.h</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve <em>tracemunch</em>'s coverage of form/menu/panel
- libraries.</p>
+ <p>improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve <em>tracemunch</em>'s checking/reporting the type
- for the first parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than
- "#1".</p>
+ <p>add <tt>setlocale</tt> call to several test-programs.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify <em>tracemunch</em> and the panel library to show
- readable traces for panel- and user-pointers.</p>
+ <p>workaround in <tt>test/picsmap.c</tt> for use of floating
+ point for rgb values by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to
+ use the wrong upper limit.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for
+ Mageia, since no gprbuild package is available.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a
+ wrapper script to invoke those.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a
+ wrapper script to invoke those.</p>
</li>
</ul>
examples:</p>
<dl>
- <dt><span class="part-name"><em>back_ground</em></span>
+ <dt><span class="part-name"><em>test/combine</em></span>
</dt>
- <dd>to exercise the wide-character background functions.</dd>
+ <dd>demonstrate combining characters</dd>
- <dt><span class="part-name"><em>move_field</em></span>
+ <dt><span class="part-name"><em>test/test_delwin</em></span>
</dt>
- <dd>to demonstrate <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/form_field.3x.html">move_field</a>, and a stub
- for a corresponding demo of <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/form_field_new.3x.html">dup_field</a>.</dd>
+ <dd>demonstrate deleting a window</dd>
- <dt><span class="part-name"><em>test_tparm</em></span>
+ <dt><span class="part-name"><em>test/test_mouse</em></span>
</dt>
- <dd>for checking <em>tparm</em> changes.</dd>
+ <dd>observe mouse events in the raw terminal or parsed ncurses
+ modes</dd>
+
+ <dt><span class="part-name"><em>test/test_unget_wch</em></span>
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>demonstrate the unget_wch and unget functions</dd>
</dl>
<h3><a name="h3-database" id="h3-database">Terminal database</a></h3>
<p>There are several new terminal descriptions:</p>
- <blockquote style="word-break:keep-all">
- <p><tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-absolute">absolute</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-att610_cvis">att610+cvis</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-foot">foot</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-foot-direct">foot-direct</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-hp98550-color">hp98550-color</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-hpterm-color2">hpterm-color2</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-hterm">hterm</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-hterm-256color">hterm-256color</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-linux-s">linux-s</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty_keypad">putty+keypad</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty_screen">putty+screen</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty-screen">putty-screen</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-screen.linux-s">screen.linux-s</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-scrt/securecrt">scrt/securecrt</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-tmux-direct">tmux-direct</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220_cvis">vt220+cvis</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220_cvis8">vt220+cvis8</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220_pcedit">vt220+pcedit</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220_vtedit">vt220+vtedit</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220-base">vt220-base</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt52_keypad">vt52+keypad</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_256color2">xterm+256color2</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_88color2">xterm+88color2</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-direct16">xterm-direct16</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-direct256">xterm-direct256</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_nofkeys">xterm+nofkeys</a></tt>,
- and <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_nopcfkeys">xterm+nopcfkeys</a></tt>.</p>
- </blockquote>
-
- <p>There are many changes to existing terminal descriptions. Some
- were updates to several descriptions:</p>
-
<ul>
- <li>correct use-ordering in some <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-direct">xterm-direct</a>
- flavors</li>
-
- <li>fix some sgr inconsistencies in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-d230c">d230c</a>, <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ibm6153">ibm6153</a>,
- <a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ibm6154">ibm6154</a>,
- <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ncrvt100an">ncrvt100an</a></li>
-
- <li>improve <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt50h">vt50h</a> and <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt52">vt52</a> based on
- DECScope manual</li>
-
- <li>use <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-hp_arrows">hp+arrows</a> in a
- few places</li>
-
- <li>use <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-hp_pfk-cr">hp+pfk-cr</a> in a
- few places</li>
-
- <li>use <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220_cvis">vt220+cvis</a> in
- <tt>st</tt>, <tt>terminology</tt>, <tt>termite</tt> since they
- ignore blinking-cursor detail in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-att610_cvis">att610+cvis</a></li>
- </ul>
+ <li><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-mosh">mosh</a></tt>
+ </li>
- <p>while others affected specific descriptions. These were
- retested, to take into account changes by their developers:</p>
+ <li><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-mosh-256color">mosh-256color</a></tt>
+ </li>
- <blockquote>
- <p><tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-kitty_common">kitty+common</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-mlterm3">mlterm3</a></tt>,
- <tt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ms-terminal">ms-terminal</a></tt></p>
- </blockquote>
+ <li><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-teken-16color">teken-16color</a></tt>
+ </li>
- <p>while these are specific fixes based on reviewing
- documentation, user reports, or warnings from <span class=
- "part-name">tic</span>:</p>
+ <li><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-teken-sc">teken-sc</a></tt>
+ </li>
- <dl>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-aaa_dec">aaa+dec</a>,
- aaa+rv</dt>
+ <li><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-teken-vt">teken-vt</a></tt>
+ </li>
- <dd>correct rmacs/smacs</dd>
+ <li><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xgterm">xgterm</a></tt>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-aaa_rv">aaa+rv</a>
- </dt>
+ <p>There are many changes to existing terminal descriptions. Some
+ were updates to several descriptions:</p>
- <dd>correct sgr</dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>make description-fields distinct</p>
+ </li>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-icl6404">icl6404</a>
- </dt>
+ <li>
+ <p>fix errata in description fields</p>
+ </li>
- <dd>correct csr</dd>
+ <li>
+ <p>add/use several building-blocks:</p>
- <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-kitty">kitty</a>
- </dt>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-aixterm_sl"><tt>aixterm+sl</tt></a></li>
- <dd>use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq</dd>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ansi_cpr"><tt>ansi+cpr</tt></a></li>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-konsole-base">konsole-base</a>
- </dt>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-apollo_vt132"><tt>apollo+vt132</tt></a></li>
- <dd>re-enable "bel"</dd>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-decid_cpr"><tt>decid+cpr</tt></a></li>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-linux2.6">linux2.6</a>
- </dt>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ncr260vp_sl"><tt>ncr260vp+sl</tt></a></li>
- <dd>fix pound-sign mapping in acsc</dd>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-wyse_sl"><tt>wyse+sl</tt></a></li>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-linux3.0">linux3.0</a>
- </dt>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-x10term_sl"><tt>x10term+sl</tt></a></li>
- <dd>modify to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by kbd
- 1.14</dd>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_acs"><tt>xterm+acs</tt></a></li>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-pccons">pccons</a>
- </dt>
+ <li><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_alt47"><tt>xterm+alt47</tt></a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
- <dd>fill in some missing pieces, to make it comparable to the
- vt220 entry</dd>
+ <p>while others affected specific descriptions. These were
+ retested, to take into account changes by their developers:</p>
- <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty">putty</a>
- </dt>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-kitty">kitty</a></tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
- <dd>use vt100+fnkeys, add rep</dd>
+ <li>
+ <p><tt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-teken">teken</a></tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>while these are specific fixes based on reviewing
+ documentation, user reports, or warnings from <span class=
+ "part-name">tic</span>:</p>
+
+ <dl>
<dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-screen">screen</a>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-att610_cvis0">att610+cvis0</a>
</dt>
- <dd>use vt100+enq</dd>
+ <dd>amended note as per documentation for att610, att620,
+ att730</dd>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-terminator">terminator</a>
- </dt>
+ <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-kon">kon</a>,
+ kon2, jfbterm</dt>
- <dd>corrected tsl capability</dd>
+ <dd>revise to undo "linux2.6" change to smacs/rmacs/enacs</dd>
- <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ti916">ti916</a>
+ <dt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-st-0_6">st-0.6</a>
</dt>
- <dd>correct cup</dd>
+ <dd>add dim, ecma+strikeout</dd>
- <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-tmux">tmux</a>
+ <dt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-foot_base">foot+base</a>
</dt>
- <dd>change kbs to ^?</dd>
+ <dd>add xterm+sl-alt</dd>
- <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt220">vt220</a>
+ <dt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-dec_sl">dec+sl</a>
</dt>
- <dd>use vt220+cvis</dd>
+ <dd>correct dsl in dec+sl</dd>
<dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt420_lrmm">vt420+lrmm</a>
- </dt>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-mintty">mintty</a> and
+ tmux</dt>
- <dd>add smglp and smgrp</dd>
+ <dd>correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018</dd>
- <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vt420">vt420</a>
+ <dt><a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-nsterm">nsterm</a>
</dt>
- <dd>use vt420+lrmm</dd>
+ <dd>modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049</dd>
- <dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-new">xterm-new</a>
+ <dt><a href="@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty">putty</a>
</dt>
- <dd>add nel</dd>
+ <dd>modify putty to use xterm+alt1049</dd>
<dt><a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-vt52">xterm-vt52</a>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-vte-2018">vte-2018</a>
</dt>
- <dd>use vt52+keypad</dd>
+ <dd>add blink and setal</dd>
</dl>
<p>A few entries use extensions (user-defined terminal
capabilities):</p>
<ul>
- <li>add shifted Linux console keys in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-linux_sfkeys">linux+sfkeys</a>
- entry for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-screen.linux">screen.linux</a></li>
-
- <li>add Smulx to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-alacritty">alacritty</a></li>
-
- <li>add kbeg to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_keypad">xterm+keypad</a>
- to accommodate termcap applications</li>
-
- <li>add extensions in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm_tmux">xterm+tmux</a>
- and <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ecma_strikeout">ecma+strikeout</a>
- to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-ms-terminal">ms-terminal</a>,
- but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities</li>
+ <li>
+ <p>use <tt>ansi+enq</tt> and <tt>decid+cpr</tt> in cases
+ where the terminal probably supported the u6-u9 extension</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>remove u6-u9 from teken-2018</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>use <tt>NQ</tt> to flag entries where the terminal does
+ not support query and response</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>add/use <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-bracketed_paste"><tt>bracketed+paste</tt></a>
+ to help identify terminals supporting this xterm feature</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006
+ mode, and also provide for focus in/out responses</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>xterm patch #371 supports DEC-compatible status-line. add
+ <tt>dec+sl</tt> to xterm-new, per xterm #371, add <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-p371"><tt>xterm-p371</tt></a>,
+ add <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/terminfo.src.html#tic-xterm-p370"><tt>xterm-p370</tt></a>,
+ for use in older terminals, and set “xterm-new”
+ to “xterm-p370” (to ease adoption).</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="h3-documentation" id=
<ul>
<li>
- <p>make <em>opts</em> extension for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_getcchar.3x.html#h3-getcchar"><tt>getcchar</tt></a>
- work as documented for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/announce-6.1.htmll#h4-new-library">ncurses
- 6.1</a>, adding “<tt>-g</tt>” flag to
- <em>demo_new_pair</em> to illustrate.</p>
+ <p>remove a stray '/' from description of <tt>%g</tt> in
+ <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Parameterized-Strings">
+ terminfo(5)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify <a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/tset.1.html">tset</a>
- “-q” option to refrain from modifying
- terminal modes, to match the documentation.</p>
+ <p>correct/improve font-formatting in <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_getch.3x.html">curs_getch.3x</a>, as
+ well as other manual pages.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>improve documentation for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Parameterized-Strings">
- tparm</a> and static/dynamic variables.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add history note to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_scanw.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">curs_scanw.3x</a>
- for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add history note to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_printw.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">curs_printw.3x</a>
- for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add portability note to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h3-Header-files">ncurses.3x</a>
- regarding <stdarg.h></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>add historical notes to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/tput.1.html#h2-HISTORY">tput</a>,
- <a href="@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">
- curses-terminfo</a> and <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_color.3x.html#h2-HISTORY">curses-color</a>
- manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and
- SVr4.</p>
+ <p>add portability notes for <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_initscr.3x.html#h2-PORTABILITY">delscreen</a>
+ and <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_window.3x.html#h2-PORTABILITY">delwin</a>
+ in manual.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve history section for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/tset.1.html#h2-HISTORY">tset</a> manpage
- based on the 1BSD tarball, which preceded BSD's SCCS
- checkins by more than three years.</p>
+ <p>improve <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_slk.3x.html#h2-EXTENSIONS">curs_slk.3x</a>
+ discussion of extensions and portability</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<ul>
<li>
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/ncurses.3x.html#h2-ALTERNATE-CONFIGURATIONS">
- ncurses.3x</a> that functions in the tinfo library do not
- rely upon wide-characters.</p>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_bkgd.3x.html">curs_bkgd.3x</a>,
+ explaining that <tt>bkgdset</tt> can affect results for
+ <tt>bkgd</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve manual page for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/panel.3x.html#h2-PORTABILITY">panel</a>
- library, extending the portability section as well as
- documenting error-returns.</p>
+ <p>add note on portable memory-leak checking in <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_memleaks.3x.html#h2-PORTABILITY">curs_memleaks.3x</a></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>add section on margins to <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Margins">terminfo.5</a>,
- adapted from X/Open Curses.</p>
+ <p>expanded description in <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/resizeterm.3x.html">resizeterm.3x</a></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/term.5.html#h3-LEGACY-STORAGE-FORMAT">man/term.5</a>
- section on legacy storage format.</p>
+ <p>add section on releasing memory to <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_termcap.3x.html#h3-Releasing-Memory">
+ curs_termcap.3x</a> and <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Releasing-Memory">
+ curs_terminfo.3x</a> manpages.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>add a note in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/terminfo.5.html#h3-Predefined-Capabilities">
- terminfo.5</a> explaining that no-parameter strings such
- as <em><tt>sgr0</tt></em> or <em><tt>cnorm</tt></em>
- should not be used with tparm.</p>
+ <p>add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in
+ <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve description of BSD-style padding in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_termcap.3x.html#h2-BUGS">curs_termcap.3x</a></p>
+ <p>improve formatting of <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/ncurses-intro.html">ncurses-intro.html</a>
+ and <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/hackguide.html">hackguide.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve discussion of padding versus <tt>tparm</tt>
- and <tt>tputs</tt> in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_terminfo.3x.html#h3-Formatting-Output">
- man/curs_terminfo.3x</a></p>
+ <p>improve <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear.3x</a>
+ links to other pages</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>
add a note in manual page to explain <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_getch.3x.html#h3-Ungetting-characters">
- ungetch</a> vs <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_get_wch.3x.html#h3-unget_wch">unget_wch</a>.</p>
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/howto/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html">ncurses-howto</a>,
+ making documentation fixes along with corrections to
+ example programs.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve description of error-returns in <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_addch.3x.html#h2-RETURN-VALUE">waddch</a>
- and <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_addstr.3x.html#h2-RETURN-VALUE">waddnstr</a>
- manual pages.</p>
+ <p>use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada
+ html files.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>update external links in <a href=
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/Ada95.html">Ada95.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<p>There are no new manual pages (all of the manual page updates
are to existing pages).</p>
- <p>Some of the improvements are more subtle, relating to the way
- the information is presented. For instance, hyphenation is
- suppressed in the HTML files generated from manual pages because
- an upgrade to <em>groff</em> gave noticeably poorer results,
- interfering with the process of creating links between the
- resulting webpages.</p>
-
<h3><a name="h3-bug-fixes" id="h3-bug-fixes">Interesting
bug-fixes</a></h3>
<p>While there were many bugs fixed during development of ncurses
- 6.3, only a few (the reason for this release) were both important
+ 6.4, only a few (the reason for this release) were both important
and interesting. Most of the bug-fixes were for local issues
which did not affect compatibility across releases. Since those
are detailed in the <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/NEWS.html#t20211018">NEWS</a> file no elaboration is
+ "@HOMEPAGE@/NEWS.html#t20221231">NEWS</a> file no elaboration is
needed here.</p>
- <p>The interesting bugs were:</p>
+ <p>The interesting bugs were those dealing with memory leaks and
+ buffer overflows. Although the utilities are designed for
+ <em>text</em> files (which they do properly), some choose to test
+ them with <strong>non-</strong><em>text</em> files.</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>modify <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_bkgd.3x.html#h3-bkgd">wbkgd</a> and
- <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_bkgrnd.3x.html#h3-bkgrnd">wbkgrnd</a> to
- avoid storing a null in the background character, because it
- may be used in cases where the corresponding 0x80 is not
- treated as a null.</p>
-
- <p>This was a regression introduced in ncurses 6.2 (<a href=
- "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-03/msg00000.html">reported</a>
- on the mailing list), for which the workaround was to specify
- a blank for the background character.</p>
+ <p>Text files contain no embedded nulls. Also, they end with
+ a newline. Feeding <strong>tic</strong> non-text files
+ exposed a few cases where the program did not check for those
+ issues. As a result, further processing of the input found
+ limit-checks whose assumptions were invalid.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>remove output-related checks for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/man/curs_outopts.3x.html">nl/nonl</a> (also
- <a href=
- "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-09/msg00018.html">
- reported</a> on the mailing list).</p>
+ <p>Fixing the limit-checks (first) found a problem with
+ <strong>tic</strong> managing the list of strings in a
+ terminal description. In merging two terminal descriptions
+ (i.e., the “use=” feature), <strong>tic</strong>
+ was not allocating a complete copy. A quick repair for that
+ introduced a memory leak.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>improve tparm implementation of <tt>%P</tt> and
- <tt>%g</tt>, more closely matching SVr4 terminfo. Those
- denote <em>static</em> and <em>dynamic</em> variables in
- terminfo expressions.</p>
+ <p>The checks for non-text files are improved (i.e., embedded
+ nulls in the input file will cause <strong>tic</strong> to
+ reject it rather than attempting to process it).</p>
+ </li>
- <p>Exactly what those terms meant was never documented before
- in any implementation of curses, aside from source code.
- Unlike the other two fixes, the problem was discovered while
- studying OpenBSD's version of <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/ncurses-openbsd.html#issue_tput">tset</a>.</p>
+ <li>
+ <p>The string allocations in <strong>tic</strong> are
+ likewise improved.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="h4-config-major" id="h4-config-major">Major
changes</a></h4>
- <p>There are no major changes. Several new options were added to
- ease integration of packages with systems using different
- versions of <em>GNAT</em> and <em>ncurses</em>. Also,
+ <p>There are no major changes. No new options were added. Several
improvements were made to configure checks.</p>
<h4><a name="h4-config-options" id=
<p>There are a few new/modified configure options:</p>
<dl>
- <dt><tt>--enable-fvisibility</tt>
- </dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>new configure option and check for <em>gcc</em>
- <tt>-fvisibility=hidden</tt> feature</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt>--enable-leaks</tt>
- </dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>corrected to allow turning leak-checking off later in a
- set of options.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt>--enable-stdnoreturn</tt>
- </dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>new configure option makes the <code>_Noreturn</code>
- keyword optional to ease transition.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt>--disable-pkg-ldflags</tt>
- </dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>revised option also controls whether <code>$LDFLAGS</code>
- from the build is provided in “<tt>-config</tt>”
- and “<tt>.pc</tt>” files.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt>--disable-root-access</tt>
+ <dt><tt>--with-abi-version</tt>
</dt>
<dd>
- <p>add configure option which tells ncurses to disallow most
- file-opens by setuid processes.</p>
+ <p>add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.</p>
</dd>
- <dt><tt>--disable-wattr-macros</tt>
+ <dt><tt>--with-caps</tt>
</dt>
<dd>
- <p>changed default to help packagers who reuse wide ncursesw
- header file with non-wide ncurses library.</p>
+ <p>add warning in configure script if file specified for
+ “<tt>--with-caps</tt>” does not exist.</p>
</dd>
- <dt><tt>--with-pkg-config-libdir</tt>
+ <dt><tt>--with-manpage-format</tt>
</dt>
<dd>
- <p>revised option uses the actual search path from
- <em>pkg-config</em> or <em>pkgconf</em> using the output from
- <tt>--debug</tt>.</p>
+ <p>bzip2 and xz compression are now supported</p>
</dd>
- <dt><tt>--with-ada-libname</tt><br>
- <tt>--with-form-libname</tt><br>
- <tt>--with-menu-libname</tt><br>
- <tt>--with-panel-libname</tt>
+ <dt><tt>--with-xterm-kbs</tt>
</dt>
<dd>
- <p>new several <tt>--with-<em>xxx</em>-libname</tt> options,
- to help with pkgsrc</p>
+ <p>add check/warning in configure script if option
+ “<tt>--with-xterm-kbs</tt>” is missing or
+ inconsistent</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>add a special case in the configure script to work around
- one of the build-time breakages reported for <a href=
- "@HOMEPAGE@/ncurses-openbsd.html">OpenBSD 6</a> here:</p>
-
- <blockquote>
- <p><a href=
- "https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html">
- https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html</a></p>
- </blockquote>
+ <p>amend configure option's auto-search to account for
+ systems where none of the directories known to
+ <em>pkg-config</em> exist</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify configure check for <em>libtool</em> to prevent
- accidental use of an OpenBSD program which uses the same
- name.</p>
+ <p>corrected regex needed for older <em>pkg-config</em> used
+ in Solaris 10</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to
- use <em>AC_CHECK_TOOL</em>. That can still be overridden by
- <tt>--with-tic-path</tt> and <tt>--with-infocmp-path</tt>
- when fallbacks are used, but even if not using fallbacks, the
- improved check may help with cross-compiling.</p>
+ <p>improve handling of <tt>--with-pkg-config-libdir</tt>
+ option, allowing for the case where either
+ <tt>$PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR</tt> or the option value has a
+ colon-separated list of directories</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>relax modification-time comparison in
- <em>CF_LINK_FUNCS</em> to allow it to accept link() function
- with NFS filesystems which change the mtime on the link
- target, e.g., several BSD systems.</p>
+ <p>if the <tt>--with-pkg-config-libdir</tt> option is not
+ given, use <tt>${libdir}/pkgconfig</tt> as a default</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of
- <em>clang</em> to use its <tt>-std</tt> option instead,
- because some platforms, in particular macOS, do not provide
- workable c89/c99 aliases.</p>
+ <p>improve search-path check for <em>pkg-config</em>, e.g.,
+ for Debian testing which installs <em>pkg-config</em> with
+ architecture-prefixes.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify <em>CF_NCURSES_CONFIG</em> to work around
- <em>Xcode</em>'s c99 "-W" option, which conflicts with
- conventional use for passing linker options.</p>
+ <p>build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add
+ <tt>-lssp</tt></p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of
- _XOPEN_SOURCE, e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500,
- but 600 is needed for ncursesw.</p>
+ <p>improve configure check for <tt>getttynam</tt></p>
</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Here are some of the other portability fixes:</p>
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>change configure-check and source-code for gcc's noreturn
- attribute to assume it is a prefix rather than suffix,
- matching c11's _Noreturn convention.</p>
- </li>
+ <p>fixes to build with <em>dietlibc</em>:</p>
- <li>
- <p>modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure
- option.</p>
- </li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>add configure check for <tt>fpathconf</tt></li>
- <li>
- <p>build-fix for termsort module when configured with
- termcap.</p>
+ <li>add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in
+ test/tclock, and eliminate <tt>pow()</tt> from
+ test/hanoi</li>
+
+ <li>use <tt>wcsnlen</tt> as an alternative to
+ <tt>wmemchr</tt> if it is not found</li>
+ </ul>
</li>
<li>
- <p>modify configure script and makefiles to support ".PHONY"
- make program feature.</p>
+ <p>modify configure macro <tt>CF_BUILD_CC</tt> to check if
+ the build-compiler works, rather than that it is different
+ from the cross-compiler, e.g., to accommodate a compiler
+ which can be used for either purpose with different flags</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>amend <em>libtool</em> configuration to add dependency for
- install.tic, etc., in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level
- libraries.</p>
+ <p>modify configure/scripts to work around interference by
+ GNU grep 3.8</p>
</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Here are some of the other portability fixes:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file
- given as parameter rather than to the standard output,
- allowing builds with MinGW.</p>
+ <p>change <tt>man_db.renames</tt> to template, to handle
+ <em>ncurses*-config</em> script with the
+ <tt>--extra-suffix</tt> configure option.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's
- absence.</p>
+ <p>update <tt>CF_XOPEN_SOURCE</tt> macro, adding variants
+ “gnueabi" and “gnueabihf" to get
+ <tt>_DEFAULT_SOURCE</tt> special case, as well as adding GNU
+ libc suffixes for “abi64”, “abin32”,
+ “x32” to distinguish it from other libc
+ flavors.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops
- integration with gprbuild.</p>
+ <p>work around <em>musl</em>'s nonstandard use of feature
+ test macros by adding a definition for
+ <tt>NCURSES_WIDECHAR</tt> to the generated “.pc”
+ and <em><tt>*-config</tt></em> files.</p>
</li>
<li>
- <p>correct configure version-check/warning for g++ to allow
- for 10.x</p>
+ <p>use “<tt>command -v</tt>” rather than
+ “<tt>type</tt>” in <tt>Ada95/gen/Makefile.in</tt>
+ to fix a portability issue.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
- "ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/">ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/</a>
+ "https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/current/">https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/current/</a>
and<br>
<a href=
"https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/">https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/</a> .</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
- "ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.2/">ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.2/</a>
+ "https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.3/">https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.3/</a>
and<br>
<a href=
- "https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/">https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/</a> .</p>
+ "https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.3/">https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.3/</a> .</p>
</blockquote>
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