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| Name: ncurses-devel-static | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 6.5.20241214 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 51.1 | Build date: Mon Dec 9 08:09:56 2024 |
| Group: Development/Libraries/C and C++ | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 6796430 | Source RPM: ncurses-6.5.20241214-51.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://www.invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html | |
| Summary: Static libraries for the ncurses6 terminal control library | |
This package contains the static library files for the ncurses library in its ABI version 6 form.
MIT
* Mon Dec 09 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch +20241207
+ strict compiler-warning fixes for upcoming gcc15
- Port patches means same fixes as above
* FORTIFY_SOURCE_3-fix.patch
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Tue Dec 03 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20241130
+ improve configure check for lint program.
+ adjust options in test-programs to allow for consistent use of -c/-l
for command/logging.
+ modify win_driver.c for MinGW to handle shift-tab and control-tab as
back-tab (report by Axel Reinhold)
* Mon Nov 25 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20241123
+ remove dependency on stdbool.h from configure script check for type
of bool when C++ binding is omitted (report by Sam James).
+ compiler-warning fixes
* Mon Nov 11 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20241109
+ work around musl header ifdef's (report by Urs Jansen, cf: Gentoo
[#920266]).
+ improve error-reporting in write_entry.c (report by Changqing Li).
+ remove unused #include from DJGPP configuration (report by Stas
Sergeev).
+ workaround/fix issues from clang-analyze
* Mon Nov 04 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20241102
+ remove djgpp-specific initialization to binary mode (report/patch by
Stas Sergeev).
+ add extended-keys for djgpp 2.05 -TD
- Add ncurses patch 20241026
+ update ms-terminal -TD
+ add ms-terminal-direct -TD
+ correct dimensions in test/popup_msg.c, fixing an overrun (patch by
Stas Sergeev, cf: 20211219).
* Mon Oct 21 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20241019
+ fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
+ build-fixes for DJGPP configuration (patches by Stas Sergeev)
* Mon Oct 07 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20241006
+ fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
+ use xterm+alt+title in wezterm -TD
* Mon Sep 30 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240928
+ improve error-message from infocmp when a terminal entry cannot be
opened (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve filtering of -L options in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in and in
misc/ncurses-config.in
+ add check in wresize() for out-of-range dimensions (report by Peter
Bierma).
* Mon Sep 23 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240922
+ add a few null-pointer checks in ncurses
+ improve test-driver in ncurses/link_test.c
+ restore background character in manpages as described in X/Open
Curses section 3.3.6, and add option "-c" to test programs to
illustrate a non-blank character in the window background property.
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify ncurses*-config to add -I option in --cflag where needed for
- -disable-overwrite to match ".pc" files.
+ disallow directories and block/character devices in safe-open.
+ amend scr_restore() and scr_init() to remove the target window only
after validating the source window which will replace the target
(report by Zixi Liu).
* Mon Sep 16 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240914
+ modify _nc_flush() to also flush stderr to help the flash capability
to work in bash (patch by Harm te Hennepe, cf: 20201128)
+ omit -g and -fXXX flags from CFLAGS in misc/ncurses-config.in
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ improve examples in NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
+ update comments in terminfo.src -TD
* Mon Sep 02 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240831
+ build-fix for a case in msys2 where gettimeofday() was available but
the fallback was partly configured.
> patch by Rafael Kitover:
+ separate the _NC_WINDOWS platform macro into _NC_WINDOWS_NATIVE,
for MinGW and other native Win32 support, and _NC_WINDOWS, to make
some Win32 features available under the Cygwin runtime, in this case
the term-driver.
+ make some minor adjustments to allow
./configure --enable-term-driver
to also work on Cygwin platforms such as Cygwin and MSYS2.
* Mon Aug 26 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240824
+ modify infocmp and tabs to use actual name in usage and header.
+ modify test/demo_keyok.c to accept ^Q for quit, for consistency.
* Wed Aug 21 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Break dependency cycle between libncurses6 which provides "ncurses"
by only let terminfo-base recommending "ncurses"
* Mon Aug 19 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240817
+ review/update foot for 1.18.1 -TD
+ add a note about DomTerm 3.2.0 -TD
+ add new glob-expressions variables to list in config.status script
(patch by Werner Fink).
+ add --enable-install-prefix to modify behavior of $DESTDIR to merge
or replace the value set by --prefix (adapted from suggestion by
Eli Zaretskii).
- Remove patch fix-20240810.patch as now upstream
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Wed Aug 14 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add patch fix-20240810.patch
* Workaround for changes in last patch 20240810 that is provide
GLOB_FULLPATH_POSIX and GLOB_FULLPATH_OTHER in status script
* Tue Aug 13 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240810
+ modify misc/Makefile.in and misc/run_tic.in so that $DESTDIR is set
and used only in the makefile.
+ modify CF_WITH_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to allow for pkg-config using
DOS/Windows pathname syntax (report by Eli Zaretskii).
+ improve glob-expressions in configure script
+ remove unused Get_Menu_Screen() macro from menu.priv.h
+ update config.guess, config.sub
- Add ncurses patch 20240727
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
+ modify wattron/wattroff calls in form/m_post.c to call wattr_on and
wattr_off to omit cast used in the former for X/Open compatibility
(patch by Bill Gray).
+ modify wezterm, omitting its broken left/right margin feature (report
by Thayne McCombs) -TD
- Modify patch ncurses-6.4.dif to get offsets correct
* Mon Jul 22 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240720
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify configure script and misc/Makefile to accept glob expressions
that include Windows/DOS drive-letters (report by Eli Zaretskii).
+ fix misspelled ifdef and correct return-value of _nc_mingw_tcflush in
win_driver.c (report/patch by Eli Zaretskii).
* Mon Jul 15 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240713
+ modify misc/ncurses-config.in, improved match with pkg-config output.
* Mon Jul 08 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240706
+ update configure script to use macro changes from dialog.
+ modify CF_NCURSES_PTHREADS to avoid equating package and library
names.
* Mon Jul 01 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240629
+ build-fix for ncurses-examples with newer PDCurses, which no longer
has stubs for unimplemented features.
+ add help-popup for test_instr.c, test_inwstr.c
+ modify checks in delwin to avoid checking if the window is a pad
until first checking if it is still on the active window-list
(cf: 20211115).
+ improve -t option of test/gdc.c, allowing hours only, or hours and
minutes only.
- Update to tack 1.10 (patch 20240501)
* init.c, edit.c: gcc warning (NetBSD)
* edit.c:
check to avoid printing a non-printable character, per Coverity
* tack.c: initialize variables, per Coverity
* tack.1: change limit for SGR tool to allow for aixterm's colors
* ansi.c: change the SGR tool to show up to 120 (past aixterm's 108)
* color.c:
when reloading the colors 0-7, use the index for the named color rather than
just the array-index (fixing an interchanged red/blue for instance).
Also, initialize the palette using the ANSI codes if the terminal supports
setaf/setab.
* color.c, charset.c, ansi.c, edit.c, crum.c, pad.c, tack.c, tack.h:
use "const" in a few places reported by cppcheck
* tack.1: improve formatting/style
* Mon Jun 24 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240622
+ improve test/gdc.c (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ adjust naming of mingw *-config scripts to match the pkg-config names
+ widen pattern in pc/*-config scripts to disallow more linker options
+ add --cflags-only-I and --cflags-only-other options to
misc/ncurses-config.in
+ revert change to CF_BUILD_CC macro (report by Vassili Courzakis,
cf: 20240518).
- Port patch ncurses-6.4.dif
- Port edit.sed script to new ncurses-config
* Mon Jun 17 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240615
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ review/update modules files.
+ improve install-rules in Ada95 makefiles (report by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages in test-directory.
* Mon Jun 10 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240608
+ change winwstr to return wide character count instead of OK (patch
by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ rename testing dpkg's for ncurses6 to resolve a naming conflict with
Debian's ncurses packages.
* Mon Jun 03 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240601
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ change Ada95/configure to use --with-screen option rather than
- -enable-widec, to provide more choices of underlying curses library
* Mon May 27 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240525
+ build-fix for configure option --disable-ext-funcs
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ review/update iTerm2 for 3.5.0 -TD
- Add ncurses patch 20240519
+ update Ada95/configure to match change for -DTRACE
+ revert change to include/ncurses_defs, which caused build failure if
tracing was not enabled (report by Branden Robinson).
- Add ncurses patch 20240518
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ move makefile's -DTRACE into include/ncurses_cfg.h, to simplify use
of CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
+ improve check for clock_gettime(), from xterm.
+ modify configure script to work around broken gnatgcc script found in
gcc-13 builds.
- Port patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Tue May 14 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240511
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ limit value from ESCDELAY environment variable to 30 seconds, like
other delay limits.
+ limit values from LINES and COLUMNS environment variables to 512
(report by Miroslav Lichvar).
- Port patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Wed May 08 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Make verify the patches an optional task for local builds only
* Mon May 06 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240504
+ update ncurses/wcwidth.c, for MinGW ports, from xterm.
+ trim obsolete comment about tack from INSTALL.
- Verify also every patch
* Mon Apr 29 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Update to ncurses 6.5 (patch 20240427)
+ update announcement
+ fixes/corrections for manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ fix redefinition of CASTxPTR, for legacy Unix.
- Update to tack 1.9 (patch 20230201)
* configure: regen
* configure.in: initialize $ac_includes_default
s/fgrep/$FGREP/
* aclocal.m4: resync with my-autoconf
* Mon Apr 22 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240420
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ compiler warning/portability fixes.
* Mon Apr 15 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240414
+ build/bug-fix for check-size feature (reports by Sam James, Gabriele
Balducci).
- Add ncurses patch 20240413
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ provide for padding in check-size feature, using new_prescr() to
pass interim SCREEN pointer.
+ complete change for opaque options (Gentoo #928973, cf: 20231021).
+ update package /debian/rules and related lintian overrides
+ revise progs.priv.h to provide for NC_ISATTY reuse
* Wed Apr 03 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240330
+ remove masking of ISIG in cbreak() (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ modify test/test_mouse.c to use curses api for raw/noraw.
> improved configure macros from other program development:
+ build-fix for clang on Solaris
+ suppress filename/timestamp in gzip'd manpages (suggested for
byacc by Andrin Geiger)
* Mon Mar 25 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240323
+ modify tput/tset reset feature to avoid 1-second sleep if running in
a pseudo-terminal.
+ modify check-size feature to avoid using it in a pseudoterminal
(cf: 20231016)
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ trim a space after some "-R" options, fixing builds for applications
built using clang and ncurses on Solaris.
- Add ncurses patch 20240309
+ modify xgterm to work around line-drawing bug -TD
+ use CSI 3J in vte-2017 (report by Sven Joachim)
- Add ncurses patch 20240302
+ add configure check for MB_LEN_MAX, to provide warning as needed.
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ fix regression in tput which disallowed hex/octal parameters (report
by Werner Fink, cf: 20230408)
+ update config.guess, config.sub
- Add ncurses patch 20240224
+ improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Brandon Robinson, Sven Joachim).
+ provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1
+ eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c
+ work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid
definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts
[#69374]).
- Port patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Feb 26 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240217
+ add vt100+noapp, vt100+noapp+pc, xterm+app+pc, xterm+decedit from
xterm #389 -TD
+ fix inconsistent description of wmouse_trafo() (Debian #1059778).
+ modify wenclose() to handle pads (Debian #1059783).
+ improve manpage discussion of mouseinterval() (Debian #1058560).
- Add ncurses patch 20240224
+ improve man/curs_mouse.3x style (Brandon Robinson, Sven Joachim).
+ provide for CCHARW_MAX greater than 1
+ eliminate use of PATH_MAX in lib_trace.c
+ work around misconfiguration of MacPorts gcc13, which exposes invalid
definition of MB_LEN_MAX in gcc's fallback copy of limits.h (MacPorts
[#69374]).
* Mon Feb 12 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240210
+ compiler-warning fixes, while investigating an optimizer bug in
"gcc (MacPorts gcc13 13.2.0_4+stdlib_flag) 13.2.0"
which results in only the first byte of a multibyte character being
printed to the screen.
- Change order of use=vt100+4bsd and use=rxvt+pcfkeys in rxvt-basic
to get correct arrow keys back (boo#1219626)
* Mon Feb 05 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240203
+ minor changes to tracing and locale-checks.
* Mon Jan 29 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240127
+ amend change to z39-a (report by Sven Joachim).
+ use xterm+nopcfkeys, vt52-basic, dec+pp, dec+sl, vt52+arrows,
hp+pfk+cr, klone+acs, klone+color, klone+sgr, ncr160wy50+pp
to trim -TD
+ NetBSD-related fixes for x68k and wsvt52 (patch by Thomas Klausner)
* Mon Jan 22 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240120
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ amend discussion of aliases in tput.1
+ use ansi+sgrbold, ansi+sgrdim, ansi+sgrso, ansi+sgrul, ansi+tabs
ecma+color, ecma+sgr, vt100+4bsd, vt100+pfkeys, vt220+pcedit
xterm+256color, xterm+acs, xterm+nopcfkeys, xterm+pcf2 to trim -TD
+ modify configure scripts/makefiles to omit KEY_RESIZE if the
corresponding SIGWINCH feature is disabled.
* Mon Jan 15 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240113
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify dist.mk to avoid passing developer's comments in manpages into
the generated html documentation.
+ use ansi+local, ansi+local1, ansi+pp, ansi+rca, ansi+rca2, ansi+sgr
to trim -TD
+ restore padding for wy520* and vt320-k311 (report by Sven Joachim).
* Tue Jan 09 2024 Ludwig Nussel <lnussel@suse.com>
- Add foot to terminfo-base. It's the most compliant wayland
terminal emulator according to
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/blob/master/TERMINALS.md
* Mon Jan 08 2024 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20240106
+ use ansi+arrows, ansi+apparrows, ansi+csr, ansi+erase, ansi+idc,
ansi+idc1, ansi+idl, ansi+idl1, ansi+inittabs to trim -TD
+ minor manpage formatting changes for consistency.
+ modify doc-html test package's install-directory, per lintian.
+ add attr_get.3x to man_db.renames.in (patch by Sven Joachim).
- Add ncurses patch 20231230
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ add ms-vt100-16color, winconsole -TD
+ add rio, rio-direct -TD
+ add mostlike -TD
+ add wezterm, contour -TD
- Add ncurses patch 20231223
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
- Add ncurses patch 20231217
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was
cancelled.
+ modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
were already cancelled in a use'd chunk.
+ join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description"
link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
+ fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
- Port patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Dec 11 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231209
+ modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels in use'd chunks
which are not mentioned in the top-level terminal description.
+ remove xterm+sm+1006 from tmux (Debian #1057688).
+ used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ updated man/edit_man.sh to allow for "\%" markers embedded after
bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057541).
+ reduce compiler-warnings in configure checks
* Mon Dec 04 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231202
+ correct initial alignment of extended capabilities in infocmp, so
that the "-u" option can be used for more than two terminal types.
+ improve formatting/style of manpages, changing environment variables
to italics (patches by Branden Robinson).
* Wed Nov 29 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231125
+ add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
(patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
(patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
(report by Branden Robinson).
* Wed Nov 22 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231121
+ amend fix for Debian #1055882, correcting nul terminator check in
waddnstr (Debian #1056340).
* Mon Nov 20 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231118
+ improve description of length-parameter and error-returns in several
manpages: curs_addchstr.3x, curs_addstr.3x, curs_addwstr.3x,
curs_in_wch.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x, curs_inchstr.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x,
curs_insstr.3x, curs_instr.3x, curs_inwstr.3x
+ amend parameter check for entire string versus specific length in
winsnstr() and wins_nwstr() to match Solaris.
+ make similar correction to wins_nwstr().
+ correct loop termination condition in waddnstr() and waddnwstr()
(Debian #1055882, cf: 20201205).
* Mon Nov 13 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231111
+ used "infocmp -u" to help trim redundant capabilities -TD
+ add limit checks in infocmp needed when processing extended
capabilities with the "-u" option.
+ fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages.
+ fix a few compiler warnings for Solaris 10.
+ modify endwin() to return an error if it is called again without an
intervening screen update (report by Rajeev Pillai, NetBSD #57592).
- Add ncurses patch 20231104
+ modify reset command to avoid altering clocal if the terminal uses a
modem (prompted by discussion with Werner Fink, Michal Suchanek,
OpenSUSE bsc#1201384, Debian #60377).
+ build-fixes for --with-caps variations.
+ correct a couple of section-references in INSTALL
- Add ncurses patch 20231028
+ move xterm focus mode 1004 from xterm+sm+1006 into xterm+focus as
fe/fd capabilities, like vim (vim-pr #13440).
+ modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make "libdir" the default,
as documented, rather than "auto" (report by Branden Robinson).
+ improve messages from configure script (patches by Branden Robinson).
- Fix offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Oct 23 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231021
+ use oldxterm+sm+1006 in vte-2014 (report by Benno Schulenberg) -TD
+ add ansi+apparrows -TD
+ change defaults for configure opaque and widec options (prompted by
discussion with Branden Robinson).
+ minor cleanup of compiler- and manpage-warnings.
- Correct offsets off some hunks in patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Tue Oct 17 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231016
+ make the recent change to setupterm optional "--enable-check-size"
(Debian #1054022).
* Mon Oct 16 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231014
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, for uClibc-ng
+ update config.guess, config.sub
* Mon Oct 09 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231007
+ improve loop-limit for get_position().
+ improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
+ fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
* Wed Oct 04 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20231001
+ modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither
environment variables or ioctl is used. The ncurses test-program
with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
+ improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
+ fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by
copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
- Add ncurses patch 20230923
+ improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ amend change to delscreen() to limit the windows which it creates to
just those associated with the screen (report by Frederic Boiteux,
cf: 20220813).
* Tue Sep 19 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230918
+ new tarball/errata (report by Sven Joachim).
- Add ncurses patch 20230917
+ improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden
Robinson).
+ correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
Luna Saphie Mittelbach).
+ limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well
as napms() and delay_output() functions.
+ improve a few pointer-checks.
+ improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point.
* Tue Sep 12 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230909
+ improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
> patches by Nicholas Marriott:
+ use string-hacks in alloc_entry.c, alloc_type.c and hardscroll.c,
overlooked due to compiler changes in recent OpenBSD releases.
+ add "-6" option to ncu2openbsd script.
- Add ncurses patch 20230902
+ improve description of search rules for terminal descriptions in
terminfo manpage (report by Sven Joachim).
- Add ncurses patch 20230826
+ fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
* Mon Aug 21 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230819
+ various manpage-formatting fixes.
+ correct formatting of table header in curs_inopts.3x (Branden
Robinson).
+ correct manpage description of panel_hidden (report by Benjamin
Mordaunt).
* Mon Aug 14 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230812
+ add/use putty+cursor to reflect amending of modified cursor-keys
in 2021 -TD
+ add ecma+strikeout to putty -TD
+ add functions to query tty-flags in SCREEN (request by Bill Gray).
* Mon Aug 07 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230805
+ fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning.
+ fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson).
* Mon Jul 31 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230729
+ improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr().
+ modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2
shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin).
+ add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in
ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
* Mon Jul 24 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230722
+ add "auto" default for --with-xterm-kbs configure option.
* Mon Jul 17 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230715
+ correct wadd_wch_literal() when adding a non-spacing character to a
double-width character.
+ improve manual page for curs_util.
+ improve manual page for wadd_wch().
* Mon Jul 10 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230708
+ add linux+kbs for terminals which imitate xterm's behavior with
Linux -TD
+ modify MinGW driver to return KEY_BACKSPACE when an unmodified
VK_BACK virtual key is entered (prompted by patch by Pavel Fedin,
Savannah #64292).
+ disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is
used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048).
- Port the patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Jul 03 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230701
+ fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup.
+ improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
- Extend compiled in fall back terminals with xterm-256color
and ms-terminal (the first is now a days more common and second
one is useful for ssh connections to MS(tm))
* Mon Jun 26 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230624
+ fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
- Add ncurses patch 20230625
+ adjust man/make_sed.sh to work with dates as the third field of TH.
+ fixes for out-of-memory condition (report by "eaglegai").
* Mon Jun 19 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230617
+ markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion
with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
* Fri Jun 16 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230615
+ modify _nc_read_file_entry() to show relevant filename in warnings.
+ improve checks in convert_string() for corrupt terminfo entry (report
and test-case by Gregory James Duck).
* Mon Jun 12 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230610
+ improve manpages discussing file descriptors in low-level functions.
+ modify flushinp to use file descriptors in SCREEN, rather than from
TERMINAL, and check if they are for a terminal, like SVr4.
+ modify mcprint to use file descriptor in SCREEN, for consistency.
+ add xterm+focus to foot+base (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
+ correct definition of Charable() for non-wide ncurses library (report
and test-case by Zbigniew Baniewski).
* Mon Jun 05 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230603
+ add configure option --with-strip-program, to override program
chosen by the install program for stripping executables (prompted
by discussion with Aapo Rantalainen).
+ fix typo in INSTALL (report/patch by Aapo Rantalainen).
+ improve error-checks for isEILSEQ()
+ increase MB_CUR_MAX to 16, matching glibc's MB_LEN_MAX.
+ corrected mouse mask in test/testcurs.c
+ improve thread lock in lib_trace.c
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Tue May 30 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230527
+ fixes for compiler warnings/cppcheck.
* Mon May 22 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230520
+ fixes for compiler warnings in MinGW environments.
* Mon May 15 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230514
+ modify test-package "ncurses6-doc" to use manpage-aliases, which in
turn required a change to the configure script to factor in the
extra-suffix option when deriving alias names.
+ add mode 1004 to xterm+sm+1006 from xterm #380 -TD
- Port and correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon May 08 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230506
> build-fixes related to configure-options and/or platform:
+ fix for --enable-fvisibility
+ fix for unusual values of --with-rel-version
+ fix for unusual values of --with-abi-version
+ fix for --disable-tcap-names
+ fix for termcap in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
- Delete patch ncurses-6.4-makeuseof_secure_open.dif as now upstream
* Wed May 03 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Do not overwrite PKG_CONFIG_PATH for new tack support
* Tue May 02 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230429
+ revise recent change to _nc_write_entry to isolate it to a Cygwin bug
(cf: 20230311)
+ amend fix for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to use cbreak mode unless raw
mode was set (cf: 20210522).
+ fix a few warnings from cppcheck, etc.
+ correct copy/paste error in nc_access.h (report by Werner Fink).
- Adopt patch ncurses-6.4-makeuseof_secure_open.dif
* Fix yet an other copy/paste typo
* Wed Apr 26 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add patch ncurses-6.4-makeuseof_secure_open.dif
* Really make use of _nc_safe_fopen() and _nc_safe_open3()
* Tue Apr 25 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230424
+ check return value of _nc_save_str(), in special case for tic where
extended capabilities are processed but the terminal description was
not initialized (report by Ziqiao Kong).
+ regenerate llib-* files.
* Mon Apr 24 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230423 (boo#1210552)
+ add tiscan_s() to help applications check formatting capabilities
that would be passed to tiparm_s, etc.
+ add tiparm_s() to provide applications a way to tell ncurses what
the expected parameters are for a capability (tmux #3531).
+ improve check in lib_tparm.c, ensuring that a char* fits into a
TPARM_ARG.
+ add --disable-setuid-environ configure option (request by Sven
Joachim).
+ drop compatibility with obsolete versions of tack, e.g., pre-1.08
(Debian #1034549, cf: 20170722).
- Build tack on the own way as ncurses upstream drop build within support
* Wed Apr 19 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Fix get_version_number.sh to show version without suffix gz.asc
* Wed Apr 19 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230418 (boo#1210485, (boo#1210434)
+ improve checks for limits on privileged execution:
+ modify _nc_syserr_abort() to use _nc_env_access(), rather than
only checking root uid.
+ use getauxval() when available, to improve setuid/setgid checks.
+ modify test packages to disable root access/environ options.
+ modify tgoto() to accept no-parameter capabilities, for joe editor
(OpenSUSE #1210485, Gentoo #904263).
* Tue Apr 18 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add signatures of the patches as well in patch tar ball
* Mon Apr 17 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230415 (boo#1210485)
+ configure script fixes:
+ fix copy/paste error in configure option --disable-root-access
(report/patch by Sven Joachim).
+ modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro's amend default case to avoid
undefining _XOPEN_SOURCE if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.
+ modify test_tparm to account for extended capabilities.
+ add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of numeric parameters,
overlooked in 20230408.
+ fix errata in clear.1 and curs_terminfo.3x
* Tue Apr 11 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230408 (boo#1210434)
+ document limitations of tparm, and error-returns in curs_terminfo.3x
+ document limitations of tgoto, and error-returns in curs_termcap.3x
+ add xterm+focus to alacritty+common (patch by Christian Duerr).
+ add "-v" option to tput, to show warnings.
> improve checks for malformed terminfo data (report/analysis by
Jonathan Bar Or, Michael Pearse, Emanuele Cozzi).
+ make the parameter type/count checks in _nc_tiparm() more stringent
+ update tgoto() to account for _nc_tiparm() changes
+ add checks in tparm() and tiparm() for misuse of string parameters
+ add special cases in tput to handle extensions Cs/Ms parameters
+ ignore compiled-terminfo where the array sizes exceed the standard
- Skip gzipping manual pages as brp-compress does the job
* Tue Apr 04 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230401
+ modify experimental Windows driver to work with xterm mouse protocol.
+ remove DECCOLM+DECSCLM from foot (patch by Daniel Ekloef).
* Mon Mar 13 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230311
+ improve manpage description for addch versus unctrl format used for
non-printable characters.
+ modify version-check for gcc/g++, now works for msys2.
+ modify check in _nc_write_entry() for multiply defined aliases to
report problems within the current runtime of tic rather than for
conflicts with pre-existing terminal descriptions.
+ allow for MinGW32-/64-bit configurations to use _DEFAULT_SOURCE
+ clarify interaction of -R option versus -C, -I and -r in infocmp
manpage.
+ build-fix in lib_win32con.c (cf: 20230211).
* Tue Feb 28 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230225
+ build-fixes for rpm test-packages.
+ add/use configure check for clock_gettime(), to supersede
gettimeofday().
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Feb 20 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230218
+ configure-script improvements:
+ recent msys2 headers work with _DEFAULT_SOURCE; amend check
+ use $ac_includes_default in most cases where stdlib.h should work
+ use #error consistently vs "make an error"
+ add configure macro for gettimeofday vs inline check
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Feb 13 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230211
+ set dwShareMode in calls to CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() (patch by
Hannes Domani).
+ use CreateFile with "CONIN$", "CONOUT$" rather than GetStdHandle to
obtain a handle on the actual console, avoiding redirection in the
MinGW/Win32 configurations (adapted from patch by LIU Hao).
* Wed Feb 08 2023 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
- Fix use of run_cmd.sh
* Mon Feb 06 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230128
+ document XF, kxIN and kxOUT -TD
+ add note on sun/wscons/cmdtool/shelltool -TD
+ modify configure script check for pkg-config library directory to
take into account an older version 0.15.0 which used PKG_CONFIG_PATH
but not PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Mon Jan 23 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230121
+ correct limit-check when dumping tc/use clause via tic -I (report by
Gabriel Ravier).
+ correct a check for manpage-alias in edit_man.sh, to work with out of
tree builds (report by Sven Joachim).
- Port ncurses-6.4.dif to patch 20230121
* Mon Jan 16 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20230114
+ change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim,
to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram
Moolenaar) -TD
+ add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware
of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD
+ use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD
+ improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.4.dif
* Tue Jan 10 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Avoid trouble with invalid certificate for ftp.invisible-island.net
and use www.invisible-island.net
* Mon Jan 09 2023 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Modify offset in patch ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
- Port patch ncurses-6.3.dif and rename it to ncurses-6.4.dif
- Update tack to 1.09-20221229
* latest config.guess and config.sub
- Add ncurses patch 20230107
+ add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with
Brian Inglis).
+ add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset.
+ improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
+ regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202
+ add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
+ add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is
needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram
Moolenaar).
- Add ncurses update 6.4 (patch 20221231)
+ update release notes
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar)
- Add ncurses patch 20221224
+ add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer
+ add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this
xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
* Mon Dec 19 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221217
+ install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
script to invoke those.
* Mon Dec 12 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221210
+ add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs.
+ free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot").
+ add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5).
+ remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
* Mon Dec 05 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221203
+ add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use
getopt.
+ use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix
a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+ update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections
to example programs.
* Mon Nov 28 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221126
+ fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201).
+ fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121).
+ improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html
+ improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
* Mon Nov 21 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221119
+ use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
gprbuild package is available.
+ updated test packages for Debian.
* Mon Nov 14 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221112
+ build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
* Mon Nov 07 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221105
+ regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009
+ modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
(prompted by discussion with Sam James).
+ modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
* Wed Nov 02 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221029
+ improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
by Bill Gray).
* Mon Oct 24 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221023
+ change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
with the extra-suffix configure option.
* Mon Oct 17 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221015
+ fix another memory-leak in tic.
+ update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
Ada95 with Arch; as noted in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
there are unaddressed issues.
+ update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32,
x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
+ correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev,
cf: 20220813).
* Mon Oct 10 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221008
+ correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
builds with ABI=7.
+ modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an
install (report by Michal Liszcz).
* Tue Oct 04 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20221001
+ modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8
(report by Sam James).
+ update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to
get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
- Port patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Sep 26 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220924
+ modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,
to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with
different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev).
+ fix another memory-leak in tic.
+ correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by
"tuxway", cf: 20220903).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Sep 19 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220917
+ reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry
from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430).
+ improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by
processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing.
+ modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g.,
TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
* Mon Sep 12 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220910
+ amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using
"tic -cv3 terminfo".
+ work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding
a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config
files (report by Sam James).
- Add ncurses patch 20220903
+ modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing
if that is configured.
- Add ncurses patch 20220827
+ modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and
PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
+ modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
+ modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Aug 22 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220820
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
libraries and progs directory.
+ add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h
+ update config.guess
* Mon Aug 15 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220813
+ modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
screen.
+ amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
+ adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
+ account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
+ split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
+ improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
* Tue Aug 09 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220806
+ amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
newline.
+ check for non-textfiles to tic.
* Mon Aug 01 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220729
+ fixes to build with dietlibc:
+ add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
+ add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
+ use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
(adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
+ trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
files seen in Fedora 36+.
- Port patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Jul 18 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220716
+ build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
+ improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
+ fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
* Mon Jul 11 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220709
+ lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
* Mon Jul 04 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220703
+ add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
+ use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
response -TD
+ use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
+ add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Jun 27 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220625
+ improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
+ correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
+ add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Jun 20 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220618
+ add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
+ revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
+ amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
att620, att730 -TD
* Mon Jun 13 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220612
+ modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
+ improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
* Tue Jun 07 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220604
+ add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
+ remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
+ set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
* Mon May 30 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220529
+ expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
+ fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
(cf: 20220430).
+ update config.guess
- Add ncurses patch 20220521
+ improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
+ set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
+ modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
copy_termtype().
- Update tack to 1.09-20220528
+ Autoconf fixes
* Mon May 16 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220514
+ further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
program menu A/a.
* Mon May 09 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220507
+ add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
* Mon May 02 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220501
+ build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
- Add ncurses patch 20220430
+ modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
+ modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
+ improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
+ alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
data rather than relying upon its callers.
+ use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
it is initialized.
+ add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
+ add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.3.dif
* Wed Apr 27 2022 Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
- Include FORTIFY_SOURCE_3-fix.patch as the patch
is needed for upcoming -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 $optflag.
We discussed the change with upstream, but the project
disagrees about stricter rules used with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3.
* Mon Apr 25 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220423
+ in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
+ fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
+ fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
* Wed Apr 20 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220416 (boo#1198627 for CVE-2022-29458)
+ add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
(report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
+ add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
+ add setlocale call to several test-programs.
+ allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
* Tue Apr 19 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220409
+ add test/test_unget_wch.c
* Mon Apr 04 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220402
+ amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
cancelled.
+ make description-fields distinct -TD
* Mon Mar 28 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220326
+ update teken -TD
+ add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
+ add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
* Mon Mar 21 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Make extended status line support of xterm a switch (boo#1197313)
* Mon Mar 21 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220319
+ add xgterm -TD
+ correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
Robert Lange)
+ add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
+ improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
* Mon Mar 14 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220312
+ add xterm+acs building-block -TD
+ add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
+ add dec+sl to xterm-new, per patch #371 -TD
+ add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
- Correct offsets of patches
* ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif
* ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Mar 07 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220305
+ replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
work around build problems with gnat 12.
+ update external links in Ada95.html
+ trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
* Mon Feb 28 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220226
+ fix issues found with coverity:
+ rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
+ corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
+ modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
+ add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
+ add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
+ enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
+ adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
gcc 12.0.1
* Thu Feb 24 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Avoid lto-bytecode error on static libraries
* Mon Feb 21 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220219
+ expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
+ additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
* Mon Feb 14 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220212
+ improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
+ correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
Schulenberg).
* Mon Feb 07 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220205
+ workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
+ improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
* Wed Feb 02 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Do not remove detection of getttynam() to avoid fallback
as with patch 6.3 20211204 this is obsolete
* Wed Feb 02 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220129
+ minor updates for test-packages
+ improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
cf: 20211113).
+ update kitty -TD
- Add ncurses patch 20220122
+ add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
+ add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
does not exist.
+ use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
format-warnings.
+ improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Tue Feb 01 2022 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- use bash everywhere, the scripts are not posix shell compatible
(bsc#1195391)
* Tue Jan 18 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Fix boo#1194805 by skipping linker optimizations from final
pkgconfig files as well as ncurses-config
* Mon Jan 17 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220115
+ improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
+ use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
* Mon Jan 10 2022 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20220101
+ add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
- Add ncurses patch 20211225
+ improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
(prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
- Add ncurses patch 20211219
+ install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
script to invoke those.
+ add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
- Rename package ncurses-tests to ncurses-examples as upstream does
* Tue Dec 14 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211211
+ add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
* Mon Dec 06 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211204
+ improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Nov 29 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211127
+ fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
+ add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Nov 22 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211120
+ add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
+ deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
cf: 20200531).
+ modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
+ if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
Burton).
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Tue Nov 16 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211115
+ fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
[#1192668], cf: 20211106),
* Mon Nov 15 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211113
+ minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
+ add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
Sundrup) -TD
+ improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Mon Nov 08 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211106
+ improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
+ modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
+ fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
* Tue Nov 02 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211030
+ simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
+ add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
+ build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.3.dif
* Wed Oct 27 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211026
+ corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
+ amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
- Port patch ncurses-6.2.dif which is now named ncurses-6.3.dif
* Fri Oct 22 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Update to ncurses 6.3 (patch 20211021)
+ update release notes
+ add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
system to use a current ncurses release.
- Add upstream keyring to verify source signatures of both ncurses
and tack tar ball with their ASC (armored ASCii signature) counterpart
* Tue Oct 19 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211018
+ check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
Frank Tkalcevic).
* Mon Oct 18 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211017
+ amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
- Add ncurses patch 20211016
+ build-fix for pmake with libtool.
+ improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
shellcheck warnings.
+ add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
+ revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
(report by Pascal Pignard).
+ freeze ABI in ".map" files.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Oct 11 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211009
+ implement "+m" option in tabs program.
+ fill in some details for infoton -TD
+ fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
+ use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
+ modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
+ modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
than the last.
+ improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
+ correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
+ remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
(cf: 20101002).
* Mon Oct 04 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20211002
+ use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
+ modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
match the documentation.
+ add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
+ make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
+ improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
tput-specific portions.
+ add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
than binary.
+ further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
* Mon Sep 27 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210925
+ add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
+ add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
"tabs" +m option -TD
+ build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
reference of anonymous struct typedef.
+ modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
+ minor fixes for tset manpage.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Sep 13 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210911
+ adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
+ add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
+ corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
+ add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
+ use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
+ use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Sep 06 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210905
+ correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
cf: 20210828).
- Add ncurses patch 20210904
+ modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
+ add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
+ minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
+ amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
+ build-fix for compiling link_test
+ drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
use (Debian #993179).
- Add ncurses patch 20210828
+ correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
+ apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
(prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
+ modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
ncursesw.
+ improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
+ improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
- Add ncurses patch 20210821
+ improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
SVr4 terminfo.
+ move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
+ add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
+ corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
+ add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
+ correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
+ fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
+ update config.sub
- Correct offsets and dates of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Aug 16 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210814
+ add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Aug 09 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210807
+ ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
adapted from "distr1" patch.
+ add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Aug 02 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210731
+ add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
+ add foot and foot-direct -TD
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Jul 26 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210724
+ add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Jul 19 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210718
+ correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
against Glink manual -TD
+ fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
vt220 entry -TD
+ modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
(report by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
+ build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
curses structs.
* Mon Jul 12 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210710
+ improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
+ improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
Jansen).
+ further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
+ update config.sub
* Mon Jul 05 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210703
+ amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
+ modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Jul 05 2021 Callum Farmer <gmbr3@opensuse.org>
- Update tack to 1.09-20210619
+ Fix scan-build warning about unused assignment
+ Autoconf fixes
* Mon Jun 28 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210626
+ add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
+ use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
+ correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
+ add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
+ regenerate man-html documentation.
- Remove setfsuid code from patch ncurses-6.2.dif as now upstream solved
- Correct offset of patch ncurses-5.9-ibm327x.dif and ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Jun 21 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210619
+ improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
as --with-valgrind
+ trim trailing blanks from files
- Remove trailing space in patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Jun 14 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210612
+ fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
+ update config.guess
* Mon Jun 07 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210605
+ add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
(prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
- Add ncurses patch 20210522
+ regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
by discussion with Peter Farley).
+ add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+ modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
report/testcase by Bill Gray)
+ update config.guess, config.sub
- Correct offset in patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon May 17 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210515
+ improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
report/testcase by Bill Gray).
- Add ncurses patch 20210508
+ modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
is requires for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
Sebastiano Vigna).
+ fix several warnings from clang --analyze
+ add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
* Mon May 03 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210501
+ add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
+ modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Apr 26 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210424
+ avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
_nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
configure option is enabled.
+ add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
- Add ncurses patch 20210418
+ improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
before linking to the target.
+ add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
+ build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
- Add ncurses patch 20210417
+ extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
libraries and progs directory.
+ fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
(patch by Hadrien Lacour).
- Do not strip examples
- Install available manual pages of examples as well
* Tue Apr 06 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210403
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
progs directory.
+ improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
+ improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
+ fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
leak-checking off later in a set of options.
+ relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
+ call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
Lutter).
- Correct offsets of patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Mon Mar 29 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Disable pcre support for now (boo#1183960, boo#1184083)
* Mon Mar 29 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210327
+ build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
form and menu libraries.
* Thu Mar 25 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210323
+ add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
Rajeev V Pillai).
* Tue Mar 23 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Enhence cursescheck script
* Mon Mar 22 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Disable _Noreturn usage as it breaks build of e.g. dialog
* Mon Mar 22 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210320
+ improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
cf: 20200531).
+ remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
_nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
+ add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
+ if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
rather than gcc's attribute.
+ change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
+ add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
- Port patch ncurses-6.2.dif by correcting offsets
* Tue Mar 16 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- New package ncurses-tests which includes examples and tests
- Include bash script cursescheck for ASC and REP capabilities
* Mon Mar 15 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210313
+ improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
".pc" files, from dialog changes.
+ reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
+ minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
+ mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
Michal Bielinski).
* Tue Mar 09 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Only libpcre2 for ncurses ABI 6
- Make linker script for ABI 6 check for needed libpcre2
* Tue Mar 09 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210306
+ improved test/test_parm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
+ improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
man/curs_terminfo.3x
+ update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
* Mon Mar 01 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210227
+ modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
terminfo format.
+ add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
* Mon Feb 22 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210220
+ improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
compatible XT flag.
+ revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
Altmanninger).
+ add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
+ add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
+ add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
+ add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
+ move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
- Port patch ncurses-6.2.dif mainly terminfo.src
* Mon Feb 15 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210213
+ add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
functions.
+ add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
+ improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
+ improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
* Tue Feb 09 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- For (lib)pcre2 support the devel package has to require this
* Mon Feb 08 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210206
+ provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
(report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
+ add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
option, from xterm #363 -TD
+ modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
* Mon Feb 01 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210130
+ correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
+ split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
+ add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
+ use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
+ use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
+ use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
- Port patch ncurses-6.2.dif
* Skip cvvis entries where vt220+cvis is used
* Skip function keys in rxvt-basic as rxvt+pcfkeys and use=vt220+keypadcw
is used
* Mon Jan 25 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210123
+ modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
+ minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
quirks of pmake.
* Wed Jan 20 2021 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
- Don't skip test for qemu builds
* Mon Jan 18 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210116
+ add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
(report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
+ make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
* Mon Jan 11 2021 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add ncurses patch 20210109
+ fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
+ improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
autoconf 2.52.20210105
- Add ncurses patch 20210102
+ update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
exit_terminfo.
+ clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
(prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
+ use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
consistency with other manpages.
- Add ncurses patch 20201227
+ update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
+ fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
- Add ncurses patch 20201219
+ suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
by Chris Bennett).
- Port patch ncurses-6.2.dif
/usr/lib/libform.a /usr/lib/libformw.a /usr/lib/libmenu.a /usr/lib/libmenuw.a /usr/lib/libncurses++.a /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/libncursesw.a /usr/lib/libpanel.a /usr/lib/libpanelw.a /usr/lib/libtic.a /usr/lib/libticw.a /usr/lib/libtinfo.a
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