+ 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).
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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).
+ 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).
+ 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
+ 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).
+ 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
+ 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).
+ correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
(cf: 20100724)
+ improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
e.g., for cross-compiling.
+ add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
+ add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
+ modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
(prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
+ for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+ document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
+ fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
+ add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
+ improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
(prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
+ minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
+ improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
+ add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
+ change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
work with 64-bit compiles.
+ correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
(cf: 20081227)
+ regenerated html documentation.
+ modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
used by PDCurses.
+ add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
assignments to $LIBS, etc.
+ fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
and --enable-weak-symbols options.
+ correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
Pierre Labastie).
+ simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
build- and target-machines differ.
+ repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
are used.
+ improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
+ add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
new EINTR feature is enabled.
+ modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
+ drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
+ add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
"-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
with the standard builds of ncurses.
+ updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
+ fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
+ improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
found in predefined libraries.
+ revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
+ correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
(patch by David Benjamin).
+ fix most compiler warnings from clang.
+ amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
may be defined by that route.
+ fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+ modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
the predefined include directories.
+ improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
where older versions would produce an error.
+ modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
+ correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
terminfo to termcap strings
+ add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
+ improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
directory was already added.
+ improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
directories (which will be ignored).
+ improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
+ discard motion events
+ avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
+ handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
+ quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
+ add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
+ simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
(prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
+ make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
+ improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
extended-colors configuration.
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
+ build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
+ refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
reusable.
+ improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
+ improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
(default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
given library.
+ add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
+ modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
+ modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
+ modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
+ modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
Kaseorg).
+ generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
(suggested by Sven Joachim).
+ use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
+ update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
+ modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
+ correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
Miroslav Lichvar).
+ use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
+ miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
+ fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
+ amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
_nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
Lichvar).
+ modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
that line-drawing works.
+ modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
capabilities can run.
+ modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
declarations.
+ modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
+ modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
before older in the list.
+ add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
+ minor documentation cleanup.
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
(caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
+ minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
most common case of SGR 0.
+ modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
events remain, it will return ERR.
+ remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
(report by Katarina Machalkova).
+ improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
+ update minix terminfo entry -TD
+ add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
+ correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
+ updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
+ modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
nulls.
+ use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
failure.
+ eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
tset.c per
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
(patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
Nicholas Marriott).
+ update config.guess, config.sub from
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+ correct layout of working window used to extract data in
wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
Garrido Fernandez)
+ improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
writing terminfo entries.
+ ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
by Nicholas Marriott).
+ modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
is enabled.
+ add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
this.
+ fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
+ fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
+ improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
+ updated man/curs_trace.3x
+ limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
+ change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
+ add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
library which help make it compatible with interop applications
(patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
+ modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
(prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
+ add START_TRACE in slk_init
+ fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
+ change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
+ update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
+ add test/xterm-256color.dat
+ quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
+ modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
(patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
+ supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
+ fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
+ minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
as in lib_screen.c
