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-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1654 2011/03/06 01:25:25 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
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 E Dickey.

Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses).  Changes with
no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).

A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
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.

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.
	+ 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

20110108
	+ 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*

20110101
	+ fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
	  except those dealing with function pointers, etc.

20101225
	+ modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
	  allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
	+ fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.

20101211
	+ 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'.

20101204
	+ 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).

20101128
	+ 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

20101127
	+ 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

20101120
	+ 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

20101113
	+ 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.

20101106
	+ 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.

20101023
	+ 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).

20101009
	+ 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".

20101002
	+ 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

20100925
	+ 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

20100918
	+ 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.

20100911
	+ 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.

20100904
	+ add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
	  programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).

20100828
	+ 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).

20100814
	+ document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
	  the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
	  (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
	+ fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
	  by Tim van der Molen).
	+ modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
	  tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
	  library configuration.
	+ modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
	  directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
	+ modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.

20100807
	+ 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.

20100731
	+ 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

20100724
	+ 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.

20100717
	+ add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
	  the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
	+ remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
	  Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.

20100703
	+ continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
	  + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
	+ revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.

20100626
	+ continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
	  + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
	    work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.

20100619
	+ continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
	  + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
	  + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
	    will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.

20100612
	+ start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
	  + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
	  + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
	    /usr/lib/ada).
	+ update Ada95/configure.
	+ add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
	+ modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
	  of updating LIBS variable.

20100605
	+ 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)

20100529
	+ 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.

20100522
	+ 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).

20100515
	+ 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)

20100501
	+ 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.

20100424
	+ 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.

20100417
	+ 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).

20100410
	+ 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.

20100403
	+ 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.

20100327
	+ 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.

20100320
	+ rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
	  newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
	  Hourihane).

20100313
	+ 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).

20100306
	+ 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).

20100227
	+ add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
	  Ada95/make-tar.sh
	+ fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
	+ modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
	  model does not clear with color for that feature -TD

20100220
	+ add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
	  making those separately distributable.
	+ build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
	+ fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
	  Schwarze).

20100213
	+ add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD

20100206
	+ 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).

20100130
	+ 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).

20100123
	+ 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).

20100116
	+ 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.

20100109
	+ 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)

20100102
	+ 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.

20091227
	+ change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
	  first.  This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
	  "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
	  20091114 fixes for hashing.  With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
	  ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).

20091226
	+ add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
	+ minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
	+ build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".

20091219
	+ 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)

20091212
	+ 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

20091205
	+ 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).

20091128
	+ 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.

20091121
	+ 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.

20091114

	+ 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).

20091107
	+ 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

20091031
	+ 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

20091024
	+ 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).

20091017
	+ modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
	  a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).

20091010
	+ 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

20091003
	+ add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
	  and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
	+ remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
	+ add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
	> patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
	+ add linux-16color
	+ correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
	+ similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc

20090927
	+ move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
	  that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
	+ add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
	  terminal-driver.  That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
	  more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
	  termlib internals.  Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
	  be enabled.
	+ completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
	  library (some work remains for forms library).

20090919
	+ document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
	+ make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
	  (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
	+ fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
	  changes.
	+ change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
	  Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
	+ improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
	  bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).

20090912
	+ add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
	  by sharing linedata.h functions):
	  test/test_addstr.c
	  test/test_addwstr.c
	  test/test_addchstr.c
	  test/test_add_wchstr.c
	+ correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
	  inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
	  did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).

20090906
	+ fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
	  work.
	+ add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
	+ add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
	  (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
	+ correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
	  enabled.

20090905
	+ build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
	+ fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
	  agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090829
	+ workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
	  amd64 (Debian #542031).
	+ fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).

20090822
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090815
	+ correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
	  broken in 20090509 merging.
	+ modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
	  in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
	+ use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
	  help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
	+ modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
	  $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
	  compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
	+ fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
	  enable-type switch.
	+ build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).

20090808
	+ separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
	  implementation details of hash function.

20090803
	+ add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
	+ modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
	  from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).

20090801
	+ improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
	  cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
	+ modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
	  test/demo_terminfo.c
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
	+ fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.

20090728
	+ correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
	  string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
	  cf: 20090711).

20090725
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090718
	+ fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
	  20070704 changes.
	+ modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
	+ make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
	  change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
	+ modify test-programs, e.g,.  test/view.c, to address subtle
	  differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
	  values.
	+ modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
	  which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
	+ fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.

20090711
	+ improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
	+ minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
	+ add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap

20090704
	+ remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
	+ revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
	  unctrl().
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090627
	+ update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
	+ various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
	  option.
	+ add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
	  integration of "sp-funcs" is complete.  This includes a port to
	  MinGW.

20090613
	+ move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
	  make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090607
	+ fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.

20090606
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090530
	+ fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
	  using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
	+ free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090523
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090516
	+ work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
	  SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
	+ add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
	  its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
	  #528374).

20090510
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090502
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
	+ add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).

20090425
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090419
	+ build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
	  Christian Ebert).

20090418
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090411
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
	  This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
	  part of the form library.

20090404
	+ suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
	  Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).

20090328
	+ extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
	  function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
	+ correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
	  by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
	+ improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
	+ quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
	  a temporary variable.
	+ use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
	  library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
	  Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
	+ add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
	  with Charles Wilson).
	+ use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
	+ update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
	> patches by Charles Wilson:
	+ modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
	  version numbers (e.g.  which include alphabetic chars, as well as
	  digits, after the final '.').
	+ improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
	  intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
	  using that in the libtool link-commands.
	+ fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
	  from 2009031 changes.
	+ improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
	  LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
	  termlib) is to be linked.
	+ modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
	  enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.

20090321
	+ add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
	  build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
	+ add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
	  (report by Charles Wilson).
	+ fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
	  the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
	+ add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
	  for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
	  "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).

20090314
	+ modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
	  dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
	+ improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
	  such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
	  Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
	  list).
	+ suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
	  Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
	  does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
	  (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
	+ minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
	+ modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
	+ modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
	  changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).

20090228
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
	+ modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
	  enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).

20090221
	+ continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).

20090214
	+ add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
	  extended functions.
	+ start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
	  + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
	    curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
	    some internals work is needed to complete these).
	  + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.

20090207
	+ update several configure macros from lynx changes
	  + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
	  + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
	+ improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
	  + make it work with $DESTDIR
	  + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.

20090124
	+ modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
	  the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
	  Giaquinta).
	+ add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
	+ fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
	  gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).

20090117
	+ add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
	  *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
	  dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
	+ modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
	  character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
	  done.  Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
	  multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
	  (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
	  http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).

20090110
	+ add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
	+ modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
	  directory.
	+ correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
	  adacurses-config
	+ change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
	  such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).

20090105
	+ remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
	  prefix variable.
	+ recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
	  --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
	  subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
	  (report by Frederic L W Meunier).

20090104
	+ modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
	  deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
	  for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
	  account.
	+ fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
	  used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).

20090103
	+ add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
	  CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
	+ add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
	  with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
	  for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
	+ use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
	  option.
	+ change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
	  configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
	  options.
	+ update config.guess, config.sub from
		http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config

20081227
	+ modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
	+ modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
	  on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).

20081220
	+ modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
	  --disable-ext-funcs is used.
	+ add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
	  wrapping.
	+ modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
	+ modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.

20081213
	+ add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
	  (GenToo #245370).
	+ corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
	  the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
	+ add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
	  GenToo #250454).
	+ fixes from NetBSD port at
	  http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
	  patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
	  patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
	+ improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
	  by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
	  search-lists.
	+ correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
	  OpenBSD documentation/6019),

20081206
	+ move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
	  work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.

        +++  SNIP  +++  

  see source code for full file  

