X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0f2653eea9f8c461eb084269070ffe0f03d0f434;hp=431ec8cce764a2632af6d1813365a1ad816de97d;hb=b6d0d9ad9e372e856f01a4c283cf784a15993903;hpb=cba932f979e14e49b63e06715e80f64d9ffe6e5e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 431ec8cc..0f2653ee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 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 1.1829 2011/12/10 20:04:44 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1918 2012/06/16 19:19:48 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,294 @@ 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. +20120616 + + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate + warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings + are enabled. + + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked + by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to + a new primary name. + + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts. + + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461). + +20120608 + + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes + (cf: 20120526). + + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch + by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409) + + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin + is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461). + + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments. + The resulting packages are used only for testing. + +20120602 + + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD + + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD + + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD + + add dl to simpleterm -TD + + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line + controls, and insert/delete-char keys + + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing + duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing + entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the + command-line. + + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord, + analysis by Martin Husemann). + + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by + Onno van der Linden). + +20120526 + + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two + entries. + + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than + two are given. + + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on + freebsd-hackers mailing list). + +20120512 + + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD + + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character + holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to + the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003). + + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an + unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set. + + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD + +20120505 + + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD + + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD + + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD + + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD + + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD + + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition. + + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is + configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap. + +20120428 + + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD + + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD + + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD + + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD + + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD + + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD + + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD + + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring). + + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities + are interpreted as key definitions. + + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended + capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined + keys. + +20120421 + + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit(). + + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD + + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD + + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD + + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line + capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful + as building-blocks -TD + + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD + +20120414 + + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other + applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's + title is a status-line. -TD + + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review + of ordering and overrides -TD + + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability. + + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities + used in that file -TD + +20120407 + + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all + non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user + definable capabilities. + + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be + followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to + be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish + between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be + embedded in the description. + + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of + the --with-xterm-kbs option. + + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD + + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script + override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the + default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959). + +20120331 + + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317). + + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD + + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding + is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by + Nicolas Boulenguez). + + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for + the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply + using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez) + +20120324 + + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files, + e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804). + + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from + a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing + the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven + Joachim) (cf: 20000923). + +20120317 + + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications + can again use napms() (cf: 20110604). + + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN + (cf: 20040327). + + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure. + + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is + reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206). + + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO. + +20120310 + + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits. + + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303). + + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink): + +20120303 + + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation + regarding mapping of \0 to \200 + + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace + loops. + + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple + calls to setupterm(). + + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the + debug-trace. + > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink): + + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c + + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by + runtime linker + + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static + fallback entries + +20120228 + + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink). + +20120225 + + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when + cross-compiling. + + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and + strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings + about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized. + + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help + reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds. + + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration + (cf:20111231) + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20120218 + + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on + the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie). + + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for + mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles. + + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect + broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X. + + add configure option --with-tparm-arg + + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not + depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008). + +20120211 + + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD + + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD + + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for + Linux versus most other systems. + +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 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 @@ -469,7 +757,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez). - + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the + + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the CFLAGS for the build has these options. + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for @@ -6899,7 +7187,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn). 990306 pre-release - + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option. + + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option. + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530). + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes. @@ -7270,7 +7558,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. since that is a little more efficient. + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms. - + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be + + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown. + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect @@ -9436,7 +9724,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 960810 - snapshot + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI. + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code) - + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney). + + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney). + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form library (Juergen Pfeifer) @@ -9638,7 +9926,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format. allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer). - + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter) + + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter) + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer) 960526 - snapshot