X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1b61a721834ec01211b26ac22a47a92f70e7b6e1;hp=68175781ff945996c63281649b3004710639ba1d;hb=5817afea017464ac3b89170fb205f21d99bec47c;hpb=0a402bd0b857c98eb9f254cb5e798394aa8dbdf8 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 68175781..1b61a721 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 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 1.2187 2014/03/29 23:49:01 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2522 2015/11/01 10:27:24 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,747 @@ 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. +20151101 + + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no + valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the + actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at + install time (cf: 20150822). + + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the + clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an + empty "local" section. + + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due + to incorrect attribute-masking. + +20151024 + + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename + to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements. + + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional + annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support + did not display well. + + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim). + + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech). + + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64 + the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel + Normand, Novell #946048). + + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused + FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech). + + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add + minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron). + + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD + + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the + Internet Archive -TD + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20151017 + + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale + (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha). + + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with + data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors + (patch by Denis Tikhomirov). + > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun) + + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c + + support building with libtool on OS/2 + + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC + + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2 + +20151010 + + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto. + + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847. + + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk. + + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils + change. + + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a + fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input + (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461). + +20150926 + + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather + than clean. + + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package. + + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages. + +20150919 + + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input + stream. + + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to + read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE. + + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95 + configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez) + +20150912 + + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by + William Gallafent). + + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to + solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse + of symbols to pretend it is gcc. + + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of + "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol. + + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++ + library. + + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS + +20150905 + + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon + UTF-8. + + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress + all comments from the "tic -I" output. + + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from" + header. + + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled + form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64. + +20150822 + + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to + see unused letters. + + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option. + + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation. + + fix some compiler warnings from ports. + + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install + ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by + Joshua Root). + +20150815 + + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option, + overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex). + + update release notes in INSTALL. + + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes. + +20150810 + + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream + releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See + http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727 + +20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20150808 + + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h + + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX. + + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across + more than 200 snapshots. + + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement + page. + +20150725 + + updated llib-* files. + + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule. + + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by + Mikhail Peselnik). + + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD + + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text: + curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x, + curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x, + curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x + curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x + +20150719 + + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed"). + + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the + curs_initscr.3x page. + + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size + of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions + in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by + Coverity). + + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration, + e.g., ncursestw library. + +20150711 + + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads + configuration of ncurses6. + + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and + demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that + the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of + versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink) + + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink). + +20150704 + + fix a few problems reported by Coverity. + + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in + (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213). + +20150627 + + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when + building ABI 6. + + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to + map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be + suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610). + + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color + from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD + + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal + databases were found, as documented for setupterm. + + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the + setupterm and restartterm functions. + + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition + of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that + it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes + Schindelin). + +20150613 + + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630). + + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as + the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the + files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also + corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are + configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by + discussion with Sven Joachim). + + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim). + +20150606 pre-release + + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the + intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the + "--with-abi-version=5" option. + + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation. + + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages. + + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of + Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature. + + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that + ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the + lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530). + + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options + "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver". + + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into + CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro. + +20150530 + + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when + mmask_t is set to 32-bits. + + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD + + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD + + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that + have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts). + + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436, + cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529). + +20150523 + + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color. + + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted + by comment on Stack Overflow forum): + + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD + + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations + for 256 colors -TD + + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD + + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option. + +20150516 + + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which + may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502). + + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and + ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package + updates. + + regenerate html manpages. + + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was + discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on + Stack Overflow forum): + +20150509 + + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the + MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later. + + cleanup format of debian/copyright files + + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages. + + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of + the tinfo library. + +20150502 + + modify the configure script to allow different default values + for ABI 5 versus ABI 6. + + add wgetch-events to test-packages. + + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README. + + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, + Debian #783486) -TD + + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD + + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott). + + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add + nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX + (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel) + + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian + #783806) + + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin. + + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the + generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when + ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by + discussion with Sylvain Bertrand). + + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed + in /usr. + + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles. + + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared + libraries. + + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config + + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have + been eliminated. + + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on + the ncurses library aside from headers. + + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors. + + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim). + + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies + found by 20150425 changes for test-packages. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20150425 + + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page + (report by Todd M Lewis). + + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather + than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts. + + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to + check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since + frequently pkg-config configurations are broken. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the + rpath option. + + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured + keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel) + + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418). + + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo + long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header. + + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404). + +20150418 + + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with + a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke). + + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using + wide characters (report by Werner Fink). + + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm. + + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link + with the shared libraries. + + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting + ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts. + NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames + adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and + adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config + + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6". + + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not + inherit into new windows. + +20150404 + + improve description of start_color() in the manual. + + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow + const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the + readonly text segment. + +20150329 + + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the + same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov) + +20150328 + + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging + the extended putwin/getwin. + + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended + putwin/getwin. + + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended + putwin/getwin. + +20150321 + + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and + getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the + wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except + for a magic code at the beginning: + 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses) + +20150307 + + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion + with John S Urban). + + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values + and graphic characters can be restored using getwin. + +20150228 + + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more + usable in an application which may/may not need the console window + (report by Grady Martin). + +20150221 + + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check + and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for + the wide-character libraries. + + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config + directory. + + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report + by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426). + +20150214 + + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm. + + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting + for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner + Fink). + +20150131 + + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing + the combinations of configure options used at each stage. + +20150124 + + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the + ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at + least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols. + + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from + ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706). + +20150117 + + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option. + + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to + configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink). + +20150110 + + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining + symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node. + + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found + with FreeBSD ports. + + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like + ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at + all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii). + + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations + use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files. + + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify + cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library + rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592). + + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type() + (report by Pavel Balaev). + +20150103 + + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad). + + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used + via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks. + + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded- + variations in ABI 6. + +20141227 + + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use + the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by + Sven Joachim). + +20141221 + + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by + Sven Joachim). + +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, + which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility. + +20140503 + + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran) + + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an + ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window + (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + +20140426 + + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen + Pfeifer). + + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to + simplify later merging: + + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library + + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver + + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's + + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only + the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein, + cf: 20090927). + +20140419 + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20140412 + + modify configure script: + + 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 (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, + + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to + "#win32console", and + + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g., + to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver. + 20140329 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency @@ -150,7 +891,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. recognized by clang. 20131116 - + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268). @@ -159,8 +900,6 @@ it is not possible to add this information. together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman). - + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding - checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro, and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and @@ -314,7 +1053,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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". @@ -563,7 +1302,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume. + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report by Erwin Waterlander). - + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf + + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf > fixes based on Coverity report: + correct coloring in test/bs.c + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(). @@ -652,7 +1391,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc. 20121017 - + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory + + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory (Redhat #866989). 20121013 @@ -1005,7 +1744,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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). + 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). @@ -1018,7 +1757,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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). + + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun). 20120114 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on @@ -1037,7 +1776,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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. + + 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 @@ -1409,7 +2148,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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. @@ -2096,7 +2835,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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 @@ -2176,7 +2915,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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 @@ -2215,7 +2954,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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. @@ -2321,7 +3060,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 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. @@ -4434,7 +5173,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors(). + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome, - konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637). + konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637). The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the new ones do not require this change. -TD @@ -9031,7 +9770,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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 ). - (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 @@ -9500,7 +10239,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + 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