X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0659483a183d488395af99c4fbe1e985c52ab2a7;hp=4da6e362465a7340655bdcad0fa6e2bd9d1b9628;hb=71c0306f0824ef2b10c4c5813fb003db48f3012e;hpb=26522e4669dbf45cba32138b5d81c6c292e88e60 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4da6e362..0659483a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1392 2009/05/30 19:19:59 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1574 2010/07/31 23:42:36 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,508 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20100731 + + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for + special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available + (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov). + + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent() + is called (patch by Roumen Petrov). + + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage. + + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in + http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses + +20100724 + + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given. + + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if + it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target + (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html) + + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test + after exit from 'm' main-menu command. + + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of + GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line. + +20100717 + + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends + the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott) + + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the + Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src. + +20100703 + + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 + + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src. + + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work. + +20100626 + + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 + + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file; + work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile. + +20100619 + + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 + + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule. + + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks + will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat. + +20100612 + + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree + + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src + + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was + /usr/lib/ada). + + update Ada95/configure. + + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD + + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order + of updating LIBS variable. + +20100605 + + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to + work with 64-bit compiles. + + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix + (cf: 20081227) + +20100529 + + regenerated html documentation. + + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries + used by PDCurses. + + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of + assignments to $LIBS, etc. + + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread + and --enable-weak-symbols options. + +20100522 + + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by + adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by + Pierre Labastie). + + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce + the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the + build- and target-machines differ. + + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP + variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs + are used. + + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment + variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas). + +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). + + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of + va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis). + +20100227 + + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by + Ada95/make-tar.sh + + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color + model does not clear with color for that feature -TD + +20100220 + + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with + making those separately distributable. + + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378). + + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo + Schwarze). + +20100213 + + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD + +20100206 + + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD + + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks. + + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed + to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar). + +20100130 + + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger). + + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages. + + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen). + + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + +20100123 + + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is + initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work. + + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only + OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making + _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch + by Miroslav Lichvar) + + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + +20100116 + + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so + that line-drawing works. + + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs + such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string + capabilities can run. + + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference + declarations. + +20100109 + + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS + consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates. + + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options + before older in the list. + + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7. + + minor documentation cleanup. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009) + +20100102 + + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the + most common case of SGR 0. + + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on + each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more + events remain, it will return ERR. + +20091227 + + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data + first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo + "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by + 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are + ambiguous (Mandriva #56272). + +20091226 + + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD + + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD + + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style". + +20091219 + + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived + window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin + (report by Katarina Machalkova). + + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window. + + update minix terminfo entry -TD + + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler) + +20091212 + + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow + field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to + filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls. + + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta) + + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character + nulls. + + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on + failure. + + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and + tset.c per + ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change + (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by + Nicholas Marriott). + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config + +20091205 + + correct layout of working window used to extract data in + wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael + Garrido Fernandez) + + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and + writing terminfo entries. + + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read + a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch + by Nicholas Marriott). + +20091128 + + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver + is enabled. + + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is + enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon + this. + +20091121 + + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this + requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen + rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson). + + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links + + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT. + +20091114 + + + updated man/curs_trace.3x + + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). + + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which + value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + +20091107 + + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute- + and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen. + + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form + library which help make it compatible with interop applications + (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes + for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer + +20091031 + + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open + as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character + (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler). + + add START_TRACE in slk_init + + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show + soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging. + + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to + false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274). + + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by + discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201). + + add test/xterm-256color.dat + +20091024 + + 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). + +20091017 + + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in + a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716). + +20091010 + + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf(). + + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran). + + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well + as in lib_screen.c + +20091003 + + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick- + and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko). + + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim) + + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD + > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler: + + add linux-16color + + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range + + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc + +20090927 + + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since + that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo. + + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with + terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat + more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional + termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to + be enabled. + + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses + library (some work remains for forms library). + +20090919 + + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran). + + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter + (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).). + + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian + changes. + + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match + Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter). + + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than + bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski). + +20090912 + + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys + by sharing linedata.h functions): + test/test_addstr.c + test/test_addwstr.c + test/test_addchstr.c + test/test_add_wchstr.c + + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when + inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used + did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun). + +20090906 + + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not + work. + + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions. + + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW + (discussion with Mark Dickinson). + + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was + enabled. + +20090905 + + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim). + + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number + agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090829 + + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on + amd64 (Debian #542031). + + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198). + +20090822 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090815 + + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys, + broken in 20090509 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 + help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX. + + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's + $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build + compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363). + + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an + enable-type switch. + + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier). + +20090808 + + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from + implementation details of hash function. + +20090803 + + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames + + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test + from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735). + +20090801 + + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for + cross-compiling and building fallbacks. + + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in + test/demo_terminfo.c + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F. + +20090728 + + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all + string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai, + cf: 20090711). + +20090725 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090718 + + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from + 20070704 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. + + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle + differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return + values. + + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null + which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427). + + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc. + +20090711 + + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic. + + minor fixes for memory-leak checking. + + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap + +20090704 + + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch). + + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on + unctrl(). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090627 + + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs. + + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure + option. + + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when + integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to + MinGW. + +20090613 + + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to + make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix"). + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + +20090607 + + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges. + +20090606 + + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete). + 20090530 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch). @@ -328,7 +830,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. overlooked til now. 20081011 - + update html documentation. + + regenerated html documentation. + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively. + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null. @@ -2455,7 +2957,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. (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 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).