X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4a40bbee99a8c26b1e6bc10424c1d8356c031df0;hp=53f7763b1e6043e99459041494649a63df747d84;hb=e6319890faa5df5f8cdc9d6bfeb72a3bc3364ed4;hpb=d3aaa2f7ce1fec732af0f6c0396719cbc846ac18 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 53f7763b..4a40bbee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2075 2013/06/22 22:23:47 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2126 2013/10/28 00:17:08 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,126 @@ 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. +20131027 + + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and + reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530). + + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make + them more consistent with other packages. + +20131019 + + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for + compiling ncurses-examples. + + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples. + +20131014 + + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov). + +20131012 + + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test. + + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's. + + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing + cross-compiles to MinGW. + + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to + MinGW using NSIS. + +20131005 + + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile. + + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6 + to MinGW. + +20130928 + + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though + it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet + addressed. + + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with + OpenBSD 5.3 + + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm. + + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by + nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header. + + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc + + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option. + +20130921 + + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831). + + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report + by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727). + +20130907 + + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly, + Alexey Pavlov). + + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg + before/after Debian #700177. + + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro. + + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by + Alexey Pavlov). + + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option + of sort, improving portability. + + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port. + + update config.guess, config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20130831 + + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the + attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an + italics test. + + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide + character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7. + + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger). + +20130824 + + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings. + + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug + introduced by Debian #700177. + + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value + was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev). + +20130816 + + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor + addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or + generic_type. + + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm. + + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW + port when tic and other programs are not needed. + +20130805 + + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the + configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem + rpm macros. + + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building + cross-compile support packages. + + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles. + +20130727 + + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm: + + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options + + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw + dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../". + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC} + rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support. + + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that + are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules. + + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed + + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses + the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229). + +20130720 + + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the + initialization of cur_term. + +20130713 + + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm. + + minor compiler-warning fixes + +20130706 + + add fallback defs for and (cf: 20120225). + + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of + wcwidth.h in MinGW port. + + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the + --enable-auto-import flag. + + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol + table issues. + 20130622 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by @@ -224,7 +344,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20130209 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in - mingw environment. + MinGW environment. + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default value" for that part of the manpage substitution. @@ -4638,7 +4758,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP. + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by - Koblinger Egmont). + Egmont Koblinger). 20031004 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.