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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/NEWS b/contrib/ncurses/NEWS index 7b7022c..099c5a7 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/NEWS +++ b/contrib/ncurses/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.599 2000/10/10 01:02:11 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.626 2001/05/13 00:11:58 tom Exp $ This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992. @@ -6,6 +6,296 @@ working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992. Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim. Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey. +20010512 + + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer + color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement + <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). + +20010505 + + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry. + + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions. + +20010421 + + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured + for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege). + + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer. + + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME. + + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha). + +20010414 + + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason + for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay + while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100, + and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries. + + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler + <bsittler@iname.com>). + + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD + + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra). + + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit + characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege + <skimo@kotnet.org>). + +20010407 + + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar + stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0 + (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle). + + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature + is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d). + + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in + a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege + <skimo@kotnet.org>). + > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>): + + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column. + This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste + any shots there, but the computer did. + + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not + displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the + player. + +20010331 + + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo: + screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD + + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen + 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215). + + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner + <stefan@vogtner.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + +20010324 + + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin + consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There + are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a + leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface. + + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be + compiled-in. + + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for + debugging. + + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the + --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian + bug #89939). + + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is + given. + + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry, + (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222). + +20010310 + + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc + 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations. + + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h + + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language + interface from C++ binding. + + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate + nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho + <rho@mipos2.intel.com>). + + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded + ifdef. + + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped + vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf + instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart + <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian . + +20010303 + + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it, + to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller). + + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages + (patch by Todd C Miller). + +20010224 + + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe). + +20010210 + + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm + mouse controls -TD + +20010203 + + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover + variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub + + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature + is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix. + + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer + needed (reported by Philippe Blain). + + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input + file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c + to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to + files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's + recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from + the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer). + +20010127 + + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition + of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo + program. + + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions + (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its + constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which + did not do this already. + + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE + and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer: + + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate + character set (it does not work with SI/SO). + + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a + $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also, + ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short. + +20010114 + + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some + conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD + +20010113 + + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes + the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows + a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that + makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than + nodelay(). + + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option + --disable-hashmap. + + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace, + key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by + Tom Riddle). + + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string + table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries. + (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>). + + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for + compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS. + +20001230 + + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch. + + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing. + + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report + and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>). + +20001216 + + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD + + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub + for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those. + +20001209 + + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's + with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson + <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it + work with 'indent'). + +20001202 + + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching + termcap.h, which matches X/Open. + > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H. + Nanosecond", aka Eugene V. Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This + patch includes + - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding + - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including + termcap and terminfo functions + - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally + written in C. + +20001125 + + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value + from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined + dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni + <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>). + + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or + empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to + freebsd-bugs). + + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator, + which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on + OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames. + + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it + to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby + accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard + search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will default + to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>). + +20001118 + + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable + if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr. + + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into + /usr rather than /usr/local. + +20001111 + + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using + strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer). + + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for + geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer + <solar@false.com>). + + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by + <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>. + + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking + aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because + the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0 + on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella). + + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard + Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>). + +20001104 + + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition + to 5.3 change to ospeed type. + + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on + platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris. + + change trace output to binary format. + + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf + macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration. + + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to + $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently + use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks). + + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in + the overwrite logic. + +20001028 + + add message to configure script showing g++ version. + + resync config.guess, config.sub + + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist + (suggested by Neil Zanella). + + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this + to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't + work). + + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen + updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a + commands. + +20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update generated html files from manpages. + + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables + in html manpages. + + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C + Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>). + + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian + Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>). + > patch by Juergen Pfeifer: + + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing + for some identifiers defined in the standard package. + + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c + +20001014 + + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause + wrapping at the right margin. + + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make + --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for + OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to + gcc). + + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the + platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program + understands how to run tbl automatically. + + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard + Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>). + + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating + null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if + save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory + is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov). + + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two + different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov + <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>). + + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some + printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp. + > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>: + + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5, + since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure + option --with-libtool. + + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to + be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation, + + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the + installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make + appropriate changes to headers and manpages. + 20001009 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic, which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan @@ -38,7 +328,7 @@ Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey. (see assume_default_colors()). + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and - development + development + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with @@ -74,7 +364,7 @@ Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey. 20000923 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor - save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. + save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. The cursor restore would undo that (from a NetBSD bug report by John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>). + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in @@ -117,7 +407,7 @@ Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey. which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>). + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile - with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf: + with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf: 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young). 20000909 @@ -417,7 +707,7 @@ Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey. 20000513 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct - the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver). + the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver). + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that terminfo entry. |
