X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e7cbd9bf1c56a5a901404d629bed5d462efab679;hp=4694622398bc2904899e31343e4105d600575b29;hb=1ced97640ad94ecc6292b917d0f29725c762739c;hpb=555811d68fc57f29fcf3d803adfbf7070b6a70e7 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 46946223..e7cbd9bf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2012,2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 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 1.2024 2013/02/18 09:26:30 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2172 2014/02/23 01:19:35 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,380 @@ 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. +20140222 + + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c + + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD + + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm" + console -TD + +20140215 + + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without + allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment + variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by + discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs + when reading in an allocated console-buffer). + + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the + scrolling-stages. + + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken + html emitted by docbook. + +20140209 + + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if + _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10 + has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol + (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796). + +20140201 + + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate + which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values. + + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated + representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at + least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope). + +20140125 + + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do + not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for + new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch + by Nicolas Boulenguez). + +20140118 + + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to + gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782). + +20131221 + + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html + manpages. See + ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html + +20131214 + + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be + suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option + --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for + termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian + Weisgerber). + + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber, + cf: 20061230). + + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings. + + updated llib-l* files. + +20131207 + + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as + well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute + Hope). + +20131123 + + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not + recognized by clang. + +20131116 + + 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). + + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore + strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing + 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 + -Wvarargs + + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing + work on cdk. + + update config.sub from + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git + +20131110 + + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail + +20131102 + + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD + + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD + + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in + http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c + (Debian #727119). + + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD + +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 + Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790). + + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated. + + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example + of sgr. + + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages + + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi" + (patch by Eric Raymond). + +20130615 + + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable. + + 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". + + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by + not printing the full pathname of the program. + + add -V option for consistency with other utilities. + + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option + such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik). + +20130608 + + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well + as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback + function pointer. + + add test/dots_termcap.c + + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c + + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used. + + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths + into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later + expansion to free-format input/out demo. + + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file. + + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various + terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD + + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134, + cf: 20121117). + + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and + --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe). + +20130525 + + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses + library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content + of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated + it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in + the left margin of the display. + + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c + + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as + NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent + use of these symbols in term_entry.h + +20130518 + + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse + interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316). + + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since + 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056). + + regenerated html manpages. + + update doctype used for html documentation. + +20130511 + + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more + plausible "ansi consoles" -TD + + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD + + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix + prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data + (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534). + +20130504 + + fixes for issues found by Coverity: + + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to + display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets. + + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c + + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype(). + +20130427 + + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c + + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later. + +20130413 + + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr + (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira). + + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar). + + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for + type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri + Gribenko). + + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2 + (report by Dmitri Gribenko). + + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in + c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko). + +20130406 + + improve parameter checking in copywin(). + + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to + choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro + to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use + in cross-compiling. + + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program + (Redhat #911540) + + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner + Fink). + + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script. + +20130324 + + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira + and Roumen Petrov). + +20130323 + + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature + (report by Christian Ebert). + + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency + with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD + + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler) + +20130316 + + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space. + + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in + + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color, + add bold for consistency with sgr, + change smso for consistency with sgr -TD + + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD + + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report + by Benjamin Sittler) + + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?" + operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability. + + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure + line split after "%;". + + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug + library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim). + +20130309 + + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that + there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324). + + regenerated html manpages. + + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302). + + updated some autoconf macros: + + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304 + + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217 + + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building + libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same + limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build + configuration (Redhat #911540). + + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily + shown in curses.h (Debian #689131). + +20130302 + + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities. + + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it + is obsolete. + + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are + treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are + printable. + + add some traces to the Windows console driver. + + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases + of raw input in MinGW port. + 20130218 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink). + update config.guess, config.sub @@ -68,7 +442,7 @@ 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. @@ -2625,7 +2999,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the --disable-echo option is used. + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected, - writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493). + writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493). + update config.guess, config.sub 20070707 @@ -4482,7 +4856,7 @@ 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. @@ -5191,7 +5565,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore() modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat - #68199 dated 2002-07-07. + #68199. + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would