+ add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
+ minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
+ add terminator entry -TD
+ add simpleterm entry -TD
+ improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
(cf: 20110528).
+ add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
+ improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
+ modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
+ double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
+ minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
error-return.
+ improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
+ build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
+ build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
+ corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
+ improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
from tic/infocmp.
+ when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
+ add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
use a single line.
+ add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
+ modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
+ add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
for termcap output.
+ add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
"strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
features:
+ allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
+ disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
+ expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
+ modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
+ fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
+ fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
freed memory.
+ add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
positive.
+ correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
tctest (cf: 19991211).
+ amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
+ modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
+ modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
translating to termcap.
+ modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
+ add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
+ modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
+ add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
+ use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
(Yuri Pankov).
+ improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
regarding Schilling's test program):
+ translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
+ suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
+ use \040 rather than \s
+ expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
+ modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
+ replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
+ modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+ add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
+ resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
+ add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
+ add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
+ add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
+ fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
+ remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
+ add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
are not used in the $CC variable.
+ improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
+ modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
+ add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+ improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
+ reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
Sergio NNX).
+ two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
+ improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
ripoffline().
+ review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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).
+ 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):
+ 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 #337905).
+ modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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.
> 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.
+ 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.
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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
+ 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.
+ add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
+ 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, Debina #607662).
+ 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).
+ 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).
+ modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
+ modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
+ document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+ document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+ fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
+ modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
file configuration if that is used.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
clang --analyze.
+ fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
+ modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
+ fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+ suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
R Sedeno).
+ also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
+ fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
wide-character configuration.
+ correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
+ correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
referred to quitting with 'q'.
+ add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
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
(report by Sven Joachim).
+ modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
+ miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
out-of-tree.
+ use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
+ fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
+ improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
changes.
+ modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
+ repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
since 2003 -TD
+ compiler warning fixes for test programs.
+ various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
+ updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
#267 changes.
+ add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
+ correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
a separate package.
+ modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
package.
+ correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
Philip Ganchev).
+ adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
+ modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
tree (report by Werner Fink).
+ fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
+ modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
(report by John P. Hartmann)
+ fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
+ correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
entry (Novell #644831) -TD
+ improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
+ drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
external package "cindent".
+ improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
+ add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
inconsistent printer-controls.
+ fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
form is available -TD
+ fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
ANSI -TD
+ fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
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
+ 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
distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
in mingw_arch
+ add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
> patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
README.MinGW).
+ support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
+ add manpage for sp-funcs.
+ add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
+ add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
and form-libraries.
+ minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
(sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
+ add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
platforms.
+ modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
+ add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
description (prompted by Debian #593920).
+ note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
+ improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
Sittler).
