CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   wiz
Date:           Wed Nov  5 16:12:38 UTC 2008

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/devel/ncurses: Makefile Makefile.common PLIST distinfo
        pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches: patch-ac
        pkgsrc/devel/ncursesw: Makefile

Log Message:
Update to 5.7:

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.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.81 -r1.82 pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/Makefile
cvs rdiff -r1.8 -r1.9 pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/Makefile.common
cvs rdiff -r1.14 -r1.15 pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/PLIST
cvs rdiff -r1.17 -r1.18 pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/distinfo
cvs rdiff -r1.15 -r1.16 pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ac
cvs rdiff -r1.4 -r1.5 pkgsrc/devel/ncursesw/Makefile

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