+ improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
parameter.
+ define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
"too large".
+ update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
+ build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
+ improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
+ modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
install (Debian #903790):
+ use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
static libraries.
+ modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
+ add "--disable-touching" option for using "install -p" option during
the install, e.g., so that header-files have a predictable timestamp.
+ build-fixes for gcc8.
+ corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
+ add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
+ remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
+ build-fixes for gcc8.
+ correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
report_offsets.
+ fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
empty (Debian #902630).
+ use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
+ further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
+ reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
+ change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
use of vsscanf and setenv.
+ improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
work on dialog.
+ add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
+ review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
Pascual Monells).
+ improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
+ fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
+ build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
+ add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
+ modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
+ work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
libraries.
+ bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
+ fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
+ modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
256-, etc., colors.
+ modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
as possible default values.
+ modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
handling of the curses/ncurses library.
+ modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
+ modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
configured to access it via weak symbols.
+ simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
behavior.
+ update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
+ modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
+ generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
(report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
+ consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
+ set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
anticipated.
+ add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
+ modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
are.
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
function in link_test.c
+ updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
+ modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
+ add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
+ fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
Solaris xpg4 curses.
+ add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
+ minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
tin.
+ improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
+ modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
+ modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
+ change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
two sets.
+ improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
Stephane Chazelas).
+ add reset_color_pairs() function.
+ add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
by ncurses.
+ improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
+ modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
/usr/share/ncurses-examples
+ improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
+ minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
current screen is marked for clearing.
+ in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
loading image files.
+ modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
on demand up to the existing limit.
+ add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
improve color_content().
+ improve picsmap test-program:
+ if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
/usr/share/ncurses-examples
+ add "-l" option for logging
+ add "-d" option for debugging
+ add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
with time delay.
+ use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
+ modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
term-driver configuration.
+ add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
files to allow each to be compiled separately.
+ add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
+ modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
+ drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
_nc_resolve_uses
+ fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
+ build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
+ minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
+ extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
+ more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
+ incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
+ clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
+ remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
(cf: 990123).
+ modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
+ amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
either reset- or init-strings.
+ improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
+ move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
+ modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
+ improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
+ move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
compatibility (cf: 20120714).
+ correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
+ correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
by Rich Coe).
+ modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
of comments.
+ amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
"model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
by Sven Joachim).
+ add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
values.
+ add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
lib_baudrate.c
+ modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
+ add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
+ modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
(patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
+ improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
handle a case of "configure && make install".
+ trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
in sed (Debian #818067).
+ improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
_DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
+ move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
strings.
+ split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
with tput.
+ improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
+ fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
(report by Ola x Nilsson):
+ pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
+ when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
+ restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
cannot combine -c and -o options.
+ modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
in case weak symbols are used.
+ modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
cf: 20061021).
+ double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
in threaded configuration.
+ move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
+ modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
+ minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
+ amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
install time (cf: 20150822).
+ modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
empty "local" section.
+ fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
to incorrect attribute-masking.
+ modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
(Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
+ remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
(patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
> fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
+ use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
+ support building with libtool on OS/2
+ use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
+ clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
+ add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
+ minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
+ update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
+ add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
change.
+ improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
(prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
+ clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
stream.
+ clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
+ add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
+ sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
see unused letters.
+ update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
+ documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
+ fix some compiler warnings from ports.
+ modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted by patch by
Joshua Root).
+ build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
+ build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
+ update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
more than 200 snapshots.
+ minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
page.
+ updated llib-* files.
+ build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
+ use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
Mikhail Peselnik).
+ add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
+ review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
+ make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
"--with-abi=5" option.
+ regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
+ minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
+ fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
+ amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
+ add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
"--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
+ move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
+ change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
+ remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
+ add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
+ modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
+ fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
+ amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
+ change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
updates.
+ regenerate html manpages.
+ clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
Stack Overflow forum):
+ add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
+ cleanup format of debian/copyright files
+ add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
+ correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
the tinfo library.
+ modify the configure script to allow different default values
for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
+ add wgetch-events to test-packages.
+ add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
+ fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
Debian #783486) -TD
+ remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
+ add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
(discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
#783806)
+ add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
+ modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
+ modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
in /usr.
+ add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
+ make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
libraries.
+ modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
+ move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
been eliminated.
+ corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
the ncurses library aside from headers.
+ reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
+ fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
+ use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
(report by Todd M Lewis).
+ in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
+ modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
+ modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
rpath option.
+ add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
+ fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
+ improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
+ fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
+ avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
+ build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
+ modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
+ add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
with the shared libraries.
+ add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
+ modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
+ clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
inherit into new windows.
+ 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.
+ updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
the different library configurations has the same label. Some
review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
gcc introduced here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
(reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
+ improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
+ add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
+ add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
some older cross-compiler environments.
+ expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
(prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
which relates to the clarified guidelines.
+ remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
+ add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
+ update config.sub from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+ minor portability fixes for MinGW:
+ ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
+ add check for gnatprep "-T" option
+ work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
"trace" feature:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
+ fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
+ restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
(cf: 20140726).
