X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9e8c1cec518ce70de0cee59c5bef041f5b4e011e;hp=a5c63a544a0c7b779c9d40932fab4eba59656223;hb=a108bc76f220a81a223a5c25f59195af60452128;hpb=f3eb40315f9e5eff503a172aed6d325b4e1f20c6 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a5c63a54..9e8c1cec 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 1.1784 2011/09/17 22:05:18 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1849 2012/01/22 01:00:15 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,189 @@ 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. +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 + + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE + for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus + _SGI_SOURCE. + + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and + tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126). + + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script. + +20111203 + + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary + copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by + Debian #646977). + + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++. + +20111126 + + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries + (cf: 20111001). + + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an + absolute pathname. + + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could + use. + + improve description of database locations in tic manpage. + + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to + generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have + been built (patch by Mike Frysinger). + + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for + ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted + from patch by Mike Frysinger). + +20111119 + + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE + from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64 + (cf: 20110416) + + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull, + i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed + to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the + database (cf: 20111001). + +20111112 + + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin). + + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to + 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and + C++ header files. + + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm", + e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch + by Robert Millan). + + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code + in older FreeBSD machines. + + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or + _POSIX_SOURCE are defined. + + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files. + +20111030 + + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same + directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case + where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the + new hashed database to be installed in the next best location - + root's home directory. + + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to + config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022). + + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to + accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6. + + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header + interdependencies. + + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to + compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403). + This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++ + binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to + incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros + (report by Peter Kruse). + +20111022 + + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial + events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed + (cf: 20110917). + + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when + gnat does not work. + + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the + internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses + uses bool, which still produces these warnings. + +20111015 + + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it + clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib + option is also given (report by Sven Joachim). + + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open + "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109). + + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library. + +20111008 + + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c + + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak. + + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts + of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the + other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728). + +20111001 + + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force + source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for + input and output of termcap source. + + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line, + making it consistent with ncurses' parser. + + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap + text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924). + + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the + conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is + normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning + message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem. + + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list. + +20110925 + + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry(). + +20110924 + + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before + filesystem. + + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script. + + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and + TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables, + to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick + Alcock aka "Nix"). + + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917). + 20110917 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien @@ -399,7 +582,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20110212 + regenerated html manpages. + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with - special case of trace configuration. + special case of trace configuration. 20110205 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD @@ -463,7 +646,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. version which works with termcap. + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation (request by Sven Joachim). - + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html + + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html (report by Sven Joachim). 20101128 @@ -538,8 +721,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information. Sven Joachim). + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: - + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW - + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in + + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW + + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven Joachim). + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to @@ -722,7 +905,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20100417 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings. + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform - terminfo to termcap strings + 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