- Add ncurses patch 20130324
+ build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
and Roumen Petrov).
- Add ncurses patch 20130323
+ build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
(report by Christian Ebert).
+ change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
+ further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
- Add ncurses patch 20130316
+ additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
+ eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
+ correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
add bold for consistency with sgr,
change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
+ correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
+ add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
by Benjamin Sittler)
+ improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
+ minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
line split after "%;".
+ amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
- Add ncurses patch 20130309
+ amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
+ regenerated html manpages.
+ fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
+ updated some autoconf macros:
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/161192
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/ncurses?expand=0&rev=71
- Add ncurses patch 20130126
+ further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
+ reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
help reduce flicker.
+ modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
+ add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
Dennis Grevenstein).
+ change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
(report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
- Add ncurses patch 20130202
+ correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
+ improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
- Add ncurses patch 20130209
+ modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
mingw environment.
+ if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
- Add ncurses patch 20130216
+ modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
pdcurses.
+ modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
ncurses.
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20130119
+ fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+ fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
+ add check for return-value in tty_update.c
+ correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
+ add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
+ improve error-checking in copywin
+ add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
+ add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
+ updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
matching capability names.
+ modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20130112
+ correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
+ drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
are unused in the current driver model.
+ modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
library.
+ modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
+ amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20130105
+ add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
MinGW changes.
+ revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
+ add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121229
+ fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
+ add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
+ minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
numbers.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121222
+ add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
for Mac OS builds.
+ add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
cf: 20011208).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/148721
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/ncurses?expand=0&rev=67
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121215
+ fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
+ correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
by Erwin Waterlander).
+ replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
+ correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
+ remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
+ add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
test-programs.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121208
+ modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
+ remove a few redundant checks.
+ check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
+ fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
+ fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
terminal driver.
+ correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
+ set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
+ initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
used.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121201
+ also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121124
+ correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
- Add tack patch 1.07.20120916
* tack.c: ensure that $TERM is set and is not too large
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/145637
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121117
> fixes based on Coverity report:
+ add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
+ various fixes in test/ncurses.c
+ improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
+ correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
+ guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
+ fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
+ add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
test/inchs.c
+ fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
+ delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121110
+ modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
Vassili Courzakis).
+ modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
libraries or executables.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/141884
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/ncurses?expand=0&rev=65
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121026
+ improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
#866989).
+ add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
+ updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121102
+ realign manual pages and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x
which said that a -1 length parameter would only write as much
as fit onto one line (report by Reuben Thomas).
+ remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
+ remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
+ cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
+ reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
based on testing with tack -TD
+ un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20121006
+ improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
--version message.
+ improve configure macros as done in byacc:
+ drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
has used that for a while.
+ add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
for experimental use.
+ remove unused configure macros.
+ modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
+ modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
+ update config.guess, config.sub
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120922
+ modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
+ modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
"#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
+ undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120908
+ add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
to help with mingw port.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120903
+ simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
there.
+ modifications for mingw port to make wide-character display usable.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120902
+ regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120901
+ add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
+ fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
might not be allocated.
+ improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120826
+ increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
initial screen-sizes.
+ fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
Roumen Petrov).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120825
+ change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
by Brian Bloniarz).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120811
+ update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
(prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
+ improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
INSTALL file.
+ add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/134672
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120728
+ correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+ modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
+ separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
+ add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
+ parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
+ parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
Black).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120721
+ improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
+ eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
+ extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
+ modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
use_env() versus use_tioctl().
- Add NEWS and README to installed package documentation ((bnc#772916)
- Change order of listes authors into the order of relative
contributions made (bnc#772916)
- Add tabs description to description of ncurses-utils (bnc#772916)
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120707 (bnc#769788)
+ add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
Juergen Pfeifer).
+ clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
by Novell #769788).
+ modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/127417
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/ncurses?expand=0&rev=58
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120622
+ add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
+ fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120616
+ add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
are enabled.
+ improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
a new primary name.
+ fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
+ further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120608
+ fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
(cf: 20120526).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120602
+ add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
+ add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
+ add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
+ add dl to simpleterm -TD
+ add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
controls, and insert/delete-char keys
+ correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
command-line.
+ add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
analysis by Martin Husemann).
+ add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120526
+ extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
entries.
+ correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
two are given.
+ correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
freebsd-hackers mailing list).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120512
+ corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
+ modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
+ modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
+ rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120505
+ remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
+ remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
+ modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
+ modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
+ make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
+ remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
+ fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
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- Add tack patch 1.07.20120303
+ fix many compilerv warnings
+ update auto configure
+ update copyright date
+ Update configure-script and makefile template to work with this
post-5.9 change, allowing build of tack within the ncurses
source-tree 20110924. The change is prompted by review of
OpenSUSE package by Werner Fink, using a patch from the rpm
source file: ncurses-5.9-tack-tinfo.dif (2011-11-18)
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120303
+ minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
regarding mapping of \0 to \200
+ minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
loops.
+ fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
calls to setupterm().
+ modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
debug-trace.
> merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
+ ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
+ ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
runtime linker
+ ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
fallback entries
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120228
+ fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120225
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120211
+ make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
+ add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
Linux versus most other systems.
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120128
+ add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
+ add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
+ make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
+ make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
+ make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
+ amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.., using ${datadir}/tabset
(Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120121
+ add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
of OS/2 EMX.
+ modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
port.
+ modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
+ support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120114
* several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
Linux Mint forum):
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20120107
* various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
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- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20111203
* modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
Debian #646977).
* modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
- Add ncurses patch 5.9.20111126
* correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
(cf: 20111001).
* modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
absolute pathname.
* add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
use.
* improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
* modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
* use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
from patch by Mike Frysinger).
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