X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e9ef29c832dabefe5eb9d96b9b60af4087c82054;hp=ab3a9d5ab102a620503ee2ae357d5b0924196998;hb=0c9774ef662e2137933ac0c79077eaa9c8981357;hpb=c6abbc3dd08d8a749098dc1674ce6ec65d844e86 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ab3a9d5a..e9ef29c8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1069 2007/01/20 22:37:14 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1087 2007/02/17 22:19:25 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. +20070217 + + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is + enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to + disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov, + Adam J Richter). + + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping + the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in + programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help + (report by Michail Vidiassov). + + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, + which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224 + fixes. + + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking + shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070210 + + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr(). + + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned + for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong + regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023). + +20070203 + + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color) + from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. + Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the + associated color overrides the field's background color (report by + Ricardo Cantu). + + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc. + + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted. + + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints + to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built. + + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding + no longer relies on it. + + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and + --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan). + + remove tack from ncurses tree. + +20070128 + + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option + (report by Rong-En Fan). + +20070127 + + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed + to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan). + + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after + it is removed from the ncurses tree. + + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines + (report by sci-fi@hush.ai). + + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making + its license consistent with ncurses. + + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in + the c++ binding for scanw() methods. + + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding. + 20070120 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency. @@ -103,7 +165,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter, i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen() (requested by Bryan Henderson). - + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile). + + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile. + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use 'return' in preference to 'exit()'. @@ -4307,7 +4369,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. )). + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character - filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin + filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin ). + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console. + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4, @@ -5350,7 +5412,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 980321 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t - declared (from Adam J. Richter ) + declared (from Adam J Richter ) + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin). + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).