X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f0671e38fdcf51df148816230b7e5ef0b577171f;hp=c5d5b3d769804ad942487318d5d99a30ba489543;hb=8a0f1799616236ed1bc59aba36d3cc924fe39577;hpb=b040313679284c778b4f02a5b34d9e775ceba697 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c5d5b3d7..f0671e38 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 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 1.1634 2011/01/15 21:50:45 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1711 2011/06/11 18:40:59 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,219 @@ 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. +20110611 + + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort). + + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528). + +20110604 + + fixes for MirBSD port: + + set default prefix to /usr. + + add support for shared libraries in configure script. + + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions. + + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type. + +20110528 + + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft). + + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has + not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers + to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat + #707344). + + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function + with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null + pointers, etc. + +20110521 + + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze" + +20110514 + + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs. + + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD + + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory + configure script: + + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused + test-expression to be omitted from executable. + + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to + help work around weak-symbol issues. + +20110507 + + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the + script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However + there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers + (report by Gunter Schaffler). + + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the + "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib. + + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the + configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for + ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD + + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid + (report by Joachim Schmitz). + +20110430 + + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option + is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas + Boulenguez): + + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This + undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member + to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress + warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez): + +20110423 + + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen. + + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared + as different types on some Unix systems. + + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the + function pointer passed to tputs(). + + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after + assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095). + + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate + assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors(). + +20110416 + + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if + the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE + and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs). + + update config.guess, config.sub + +20110409 + + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander + Kolesen). + + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in + some ncurses packages. + + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script. + + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the + test/configure script to address testing with very old machines. + +20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20110402 + + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts. + + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow + packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for + the in-tree build of sample programs. + + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, + needed for rpm script. + + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow + making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler + options if building a shared library with gnat. + +20110329 + > portability fixes for Ada95 binding: + + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is + needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit + that sample program. + + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure + + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding + which were added in 5.7 and later. + + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency + upon GNU sed. + +20110326 + + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant + code. + + regen Ada html documentation. + + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround. + + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test + builds. + + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and + CF_X_ATHENA_LIBS. + + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports + libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files. + + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit. + + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu). + + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate + package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr + Pavlu). + > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez): + + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress + pragmas. + + suppress unreferenced warnings. + + make all dereferences in binding explicit. + +20110319 + + regen Ada html documentation. + + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the + --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include + is listed first. + + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file. + + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in + Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is + distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + modify configure script to add -g and/or -O3 to ADAFLAGS if the + CFLAGS for the build has these options. + + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx + and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for + thread in comp.lang.ada). + + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5 + + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt + > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez): + + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS. + + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs. + The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent + implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy(). + + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads + + add Library_Options to library.gpr + + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild + +20110307 + + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711). + > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez): + + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to + conform to form.h. + + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see + fieldtype(3FORM). + + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when + explain.txt is not found. + +20110305 + + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes + for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez). + + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts, + needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5 + +20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + +20110226 + + update release notes, for 5.8. + + regenerated html manpages. + + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency + with write_file(). + + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is + a new install of hashed database. + + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk. + +20110220 + + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269. + + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses' + configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building + wide-character configuration. + + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install + + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662). + +20110212 + + regenerated html manpages. + + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with + special case of trace configuration. + +20110205 + + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD + + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not + support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD + + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an + extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list + discussion). + +20110122 + + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release. + + correct limit-checks in derwin(). + + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero + size (report by Garrett Cooper). + + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas + Alcock). + + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted + by discussion with Kevin Martin). + 20110115 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option work without requiring the --with-ncurses option. @@ -3724,7 +3937,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20030208 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping. - + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, + + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by Gerben Wierda ). + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before, @@ -4443,7 +4656,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be interrupted by that signal. - + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes + + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes not needed with autoconf 2.52 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)