Interface changes
* turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h.
* change _nc_has_mouse to has_mouse, reflect its use in C++ and Ada95.
* add is_pad and is_subwin functions for opaque access to the WINDOW structure.
* add tiparm, based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
Library Improvements
* add a terminal driver for Windows console, which supports a MinGW port to
Windows.
* add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several curses
functions which use the global SP.
* improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an extended
terminfo capability U8.
* improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
* add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick- and
double-lines.
* modify init_pair to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond the
color_pairs limit, which use default colors.
Improvements to Programs
* add tabs program.
* modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form (sorted,
unique mapping).
* add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
inconsistent printer-controls.
* add special case to _nc_infotocap (used by tic and infocmp) to recognize the
setaf/setab strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a
reduced version which works with termcap.
not only with the different directory structure under Mac OS X (due to
the case-insensitive file-system) but also with the files which don't
get installed under Solaris. Bump the package revision of the "ncurses"
package as the binary package changed under Mac OS X.
This fixes PR pkg/43446 by Edgar Fuss.
New features and improvements:
* library
o new flavor of the ncurses library provides rudimentary
support for POSIX threads. Several functions are reentrant,
but most require either a window-level or screen-level
mutex.
(This is API-compatible, but not ABI-compatible with
the normal library).
o add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make
structs opaque in selected configurations.
o add NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS symbols
to curses.h to make it simpler to tell if the extended
functions and/or colors are declared.
o add wresize to C++ binding
o eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf calls in C++ binding.
o add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C
functions that pass a WINDOW* parameter.
o adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
o improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
o make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface .
o add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a
directory, add ".log" to the name and try again.
o several new manpages: curs_legacy.3x, curs_memleaks.3x,
curs_opaque.3x and curs_threads.3x
* programs:
o modified three test-programs to demonstrate the threading
support in this version: ditto, rain, worm.
o several new test-programs: demo_panels, dots_mvcur,
inch_wide, inchs, key_name, key_names, savescreen,
savescreen.sh test_arrays, test_get_wstr, test_getstr,
test_instr, test_inwstr and test_opaque.
o add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install.
o modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent
them from being lost when that is read back in unformatted
strings.
o The tack program is now distributed separately from
ncurses.
* terminal database
o added entries:
+ Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color
+ aterm
+ konsole-256color
+ mrxvt
+ screen.mlterm
+ screen.rxvt
+ teraterm4.59 is now the primary primary teraterm
entry, renamed original to teraterm2.3
+ 9term terminal
+ Newbury Data entries
o updated/improved entries:
+ gnome to version 2.22.3
+ h19, z100
+ konsole to version 1.6.6
+ mlterm, mlterm+pcfkeys
+ xterm, and building-blocks for function-keys to
xterm patch #230.
Major bug fixes:
* add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined
capabilities (this is needed for current konsole terminfo
entry).
* modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking
or installing shared libraries do not first remove the library,
in case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh.
* correct check for notimeout in wgetch.
* fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc function.
* change winnstr to stop at the end of the line.
* make Ada95 demo_panels example work.
* fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line.
* fill in extended-color pair to make colors work for
wide-characters using extended-colors.
* improve refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
taking into account split characters on left/right window
boundaries.
* modify win_wchnstr to ensure that only a base cell is returned
for each multi-column character.
* improve waddch and winsch handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc by
using unctrl to display illegal bytes rather than trying to
append further bytes to make up a valid sequence.
* restore curs_set state after endwin/refresh
* modify keyname to use "^X" form only if meta has been called,
or if keyname is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
initscr or newterm.
* modify unctrl to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint.
If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or
"~" sequence.
* improve resizeterm by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting
the soft-keys.
* modify form library to accept control characters such as
newline in set_field_buffer, which is compatible with Solaris.
* use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE, etc.,
to make those work properly with the --enable-ext-mouse
configuration
* correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using
return value from C where none was returned.
* reviewed/fixed issues reported by Coverity and Klocwork tools.
Portability:
* configure script:
o new options:
--disable-big-strings
control whether static string tables are generated
as single large strings (to improve startup
performance), or as array of individual strings.
--disable-relink
control whether shared libraries are relinked
(during install) when rpath is enabled.
--disable-tic-depends
make explicit whether tic library depends on
ncurses/ncursesw library.
--enable-mixed-case
override the configure script's check if the
filesystem supports mixed-case filenames. This
allows one to control how the terminal database
maps to the filesystem. For filesystems that do
not support mixed-case, the library uses generate
2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level
of the filesystem terminfo database
--enable-reentrant
builds a different flavor of the ncurses library
(ncursest) which improves reentrant use of the
library by reducing global and static variables
(see the "--with-pthread" option for the threaded
support).
--enable-weak-symbols
use weak-symbols for linking to the POSIX thread
library, and use the same soname for the ncurses
shared library as the normal library (caveat: the
ABI is for the threaded library, which makes global
data accessed via functions).
--with-pthread
build with the POSIX thread library (tested with
AIX, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HPUX, IRIX64,
Solaris, Tru64).
--with-ticlib
build/install the tic-support functions in a separate
library
o improved options:
--enable-ext-colors
requires the wide-character configuration.
--with-chtype
ignore option value "unsigned" is always added to
the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
--with-dmalloc
build-fix for redefinition of strndup.
--with-hashed-db
+ accepts a parameter which is the install-prefix
of a given Berkeley Database.
+ the $LIBS environment variable overrides the
search for the db library.
--without-hashed-db
assumed when "--disable-database" is used.
* other configure/build issues:
o build-fixes for LynxOS
o modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
o build-fix for FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface.
o build-fixes for AIX with libtool.
o build-fixes for Darwin and libtool.
o modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku.
o corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on
Solaris and IRIX64.
o change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
o build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
o add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating
source-files to force earlier exit if the build environment
fails unexpectedly.
o add support for shared libraries for QNX.
o change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to
avoid substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its
extensions to digraphs.
* library:
o rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb, making it work on Solaris.
This is used in the form library to determine the length
of the buffer needed by field_buffer.
o add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use
the corresponding type for data manipulated by signal
handlers.
o set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a
range
o disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen
to contain "linux", since Gpm_Open no longer limits its
assertion to terminals that it might handle, e.g., within
"screen" in xterm.
o reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library.
* test programs:
o update test programs to build/work with various UNIX
curses for comparisons.
Bump revisions of both ncurses and ncursesw packages.
fixes based on Coverity report:
------------------------------
- remove dead code in test/bs.c
- remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
- remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
- fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
- fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
- fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
- fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for
EOF.
- fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
- add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
- add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter()
handling of V_BSD case.
- fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
- fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
- add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
- add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
- add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
- add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
- fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
- fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
- add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
------------------------------------------------------
- modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
- add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
- fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
- corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
Hashed-databases are supported for storing terminal descriptions.
Support for magic-cookies such as hpterm was improved.
Support for rpath in shared libraries was revised.
Many bugfixes were made for memory leaks, wide-character support, portability,
and more.
This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses 5.0
through 5.4; very few applications will require recompilation,
depending on the platform. These are the highlights from the
change-log since ncurses 5.4 release.
Interface changes:
* terminfo installs "xterm-new" as "xterm" entry rather than
"xterm-old" (aka xterm-r6).
* terminfo data is installed using the tic -x option (few systems
still use ncurses 4.2).
* modify C++ binding to work with newer C++ compilers by providing
initializers and using modern casts. Old-style header names are
still used in this release to allow compiling with not-so-old
compilers.
* modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is
chtype).
* change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function.
* form and menu libraries now work with wide-character data.
Applications which bypassed the form library and manipulated the
FIELD.buf data directly will not work properly with libformw,
since that no longer points to an array of char. The
set_field_buffer() and field_buffer() functions translate to/from
the actual field data.
* add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
stdbool.h, e.g.,
#define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
#include <curses.h>
* change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure
that libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason
for this is that the corresponding data which belongs to the
upper-level ncurses library has a different size in each model.
* winnstr() now returns multibyte character strings for the
wide-character configuration.
* assume_default_colors() no longer requires that
use_default_colors() be called first.
* data_ahead() now works with wide-characters.
* slk_set() and slk_wset() now accept and store multibyte or
multicolumn characters.
* start_color() now returns OK if colors have already been started.
start_color() also returns ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
* pair_content() now returns -1 for consistency with init_pair() if
it corresponds to the default-color.
* unctrl() now returns null if its parameter does not correspond to
an unsigned char.
New features and improvements:
* library
+ environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS supports
miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate
character set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
+ modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an
extended capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name
begins with 'k', ncurses will automatically treat it as a
key.
+ change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it
dynamically at runtime.
+ form, menu and panel libraries support debug-tracing.
* add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala (see
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
* programs:
* infocmp:
+ The -i option now matches 8-bit controls against its table
entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
+ add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more
consistent with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp
previous gave this information without an option.
* tic:
+ modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the
beginning of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
+ filter out long extended names when translating to termcap
format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
capability names.
+ correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap,
e.g., using "tic -C".
+ modify the "-c -v" options to ignore delays when comparing
strings. Also modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string,
e.g., for terminals which cannot properly combine attributes
in one control sequence.
+ add a check for improperly ended strings, i.e., where a
following line begins in column 1.
+ add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no
sgr string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined
with color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters
in odd places.
+ add check (with debug configuration) that provides about the
runtime changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap
applications.
* tset:
+ add -c and -w options to allow user to suppress ncurses'
resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case
where it is not able to detect the true size.
Major bug fixes:
* improve logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new. This is a feature
that was incompletely implemented in ncurses 5.3. ncurses attempts
to provide termcap clients with the portion of the sgr0 (termcap
"me") string that does not reset line-drawing.
* cells in the WINDOW which are continuations of a multicolumn
character are encoded differently, making repainting more
reliable.
* amend change to setupterm() in ncurses 5.4 (20030405) which would
reuse the value of cur_term if the same output was selected. This
now reuses it only when setupterm() is called from tgetent(),
which has no notion of separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must
be called after initscr() or newterm() to use this feature.
* make setcchar() now works when its wchar_t* parameter is pointing
to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
* win_wchnstr() now works for more than one cell.
* resizeterm() now processes all levels of window hierarchy.
* disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
"xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
mouse events in this case.
* add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example,
ACS_DARROW is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally
displayed the same as ACS_BTEE.
Portability:
* configure script:
+ new options:
--enable-largefile
set compiler and linker flags to use largefile
support.
--enable-ext-colors
Allow encoding of 256 foreground and background
colors, e.g., with the xterm-256color or
xterm-88color terminfo entries. This requires ABI 6
because it changes the size of cchar_t.
--enable-ext-mouse
This defines NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies
the encoding of mouse events to support wheel mice,
which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works with
xterm and similar terminal emulators. This requires
ABI 6 because it changes the encoding of mouse
events.
--with-chtype
overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of chtype
--with-mmask-t
overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of mmask_t
--without-xterm-new
Installs "xterm-old" as the "xterm" entry of the
terminfo database.
+ The --with-termlib option now accepts a value which sets the
name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so
+ fixes/improvements for cross-compiling:
o suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when
cross-compiling. This allows cross-compiles to use the
host's tic program to handle the "make install.data"
step.
o correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in
ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow cross-compiling from a
separate directory tree.
* library:
+ add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful
64-bits for chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option
--disable-lp64 in case anyone used that configuration.
+ modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make
it compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
+ remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
that extend beyond the screen (Solaris does this).
+ check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available. This
replaces ad hoc tests of environment variables to check if
the terminal is setup for UTF-8 encoding. Applications which
do not call setlocale() should be corrected, to make them
work properly with UTF-8 encoding.
In particular, applications which assume (and do not call
setlocale()) that Latin-1 codes are printable will no longer
work in a UTF-8 locale since the ad hoc check of environment
variables to see if the locale was UTF-8 is not used when
nl_langinfo(CODESET) is available.
+ use setlocale() to query the program's current locale rather
than using getenv(). This supports applications which rely
upon legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale is
not initialized.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
this build with NetBSD make older than Dec 26 2003.
Problem was that ${FOO:$o=.lo} was not expanded as in GNU make
before that date; problem found by Thomas Dickey.
Remove USE_GNU_TOOLS+=make.
(and manpages). This is in regards to my PR #23103.
I bumped PKGREVISION in Makefile but not in buildlink2.mk file.
The ncurses libraries and headers didn't change. No need to bump
PKGREVISIONs for all the packages that depend on libncurses.
Interface changes:
* change type for bool used in headers to NCURSES_BOOL, which usually is the same as the
compiler's definition for bool.
* add all but two functions for X/Open curses wide-character support. These are only
available if the library is configured using the --enable-widec option. Missing functions
are
* pecho_wchar()
* slk_wset()
* add environment variable $NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS to modify the assume_default_colors()
extension.
New features and improvements:
* Improved support for termcap applications:
* add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do not fit into the
1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes hds200 fit.
* modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate character set,
and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap "me" string which it will return
to eliminate that part. In particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing
characters.
* add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc string. This
happens in configurations where raw termcap information is processed; tic already
does this and other checks.
* add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out when translating
to termcap.
* modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it work properly for
termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
* add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications such as nvi, which use
curses for output but not for input (fixes Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
* correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled with xpm support,
the variable has three fields, making it slightly incompatible with itself. In either
case, the background color is the last field.
Major bug fixes:
* rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(), to ensure that if the
parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of the scrolling region, then the scrolling
region will be cleared.
* modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered. Also modify to use
buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing with write().
* move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with callbacks in
lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized the tty modes before saving them.
* modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt the window structure,
and to make subwindows fit within the resized window.
* altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window cannot be resized because
it would be larger than its parent.
* correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput, which did not exit
with an error when told to put a string not in the current terminfo entry.
* modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is running in a non-bce
terminals with default colors enabled, it returns true, allowing the user to select/paste
text without picking up extraneous trailing blanks.
* add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in the overwrite logic.
* add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
* modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode is set. Normally this
is not a problem since the actual terminal mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations,
however it is useful to allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid
staircasing effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx 2.8.4).
Portability:
* configure script:
* modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by default unless the
--prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to work around packagers who do not
read the INSTALL notes.
* correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it to the
experimental section (cf: 20011208).
* modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with fallbacks only.
In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
* modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that case, do not use
the build's tic to install the terminfo database.
* modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are different for C++
than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++ compilers on Solaris and IRIX.
* add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling: --with-build-cc,
--with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and --with-build-libs.
* add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar terminfo database
formats such as AIX 4.x
* add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition to 5.3 change to
ospeed type.
* library:
* implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n conversion to help
parse the input data.
* various fixes to build/work with different implementations of vsscanf().
* add/use macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on platforms where this is a
problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
* finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
* add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
* programs:
* modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on platforms with no
hard links, e.g., BeOS.
* modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking aliases on a
filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because the source and destination
differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0 on cygwin.
* modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of argv[0] to work
properly on systems such as OS/2 which have case-independent filenames and/or program
suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
buildlink2.mk files back into the main trunk. This provides sufficient
buildlink2 infrastructure to start merging other packages from the
buildlink2 branch that have already been converted to use the buildlink2
framework.
