X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=873a0812f02c4758b3d91585c685f577b6f21b29;hp=92a288d25cc2c37cf3c2ad76c5bf11594af5b700;hb=c6cfd97b8beaf0f6deafbf8aac7281cf6aa7f012;hpb=7b077b4a853fd84176d8057f263ed193210f632e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 92a288d2..873a0812 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 1.2314 2014/12/14 00:42:06 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2349 2015/02/15 01:13:13 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,68 @@ 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. +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