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diff --git a/ObsoleteFiles.inc b/ObsoleteFiles.inc
index fcde02df0b6d..feac4ca5a746 100644
--- a/ObsoleteFiles.inc
+++ b/ObsoleteFiles.inc
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@
OLD_FILES+=usr/tests/usr.bin/m4/legacy_test
OLD_FILES+=usr/tests/usr.bin/m4/regress.sh
+# 20260114: remove ncurses html documentation
+OLD_FILES+=usr/share/doc/ncurses/hackguide.html
+OLD_FILES+=usr/share/doc/ncurses/ncurses-intro.html
+OLD_DIRS+=usr/share/doc/ncurses
+
# 20251218: Remove old MLINK to apmconf(8)
OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man8/apmconf.8.gz
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/AUTHORS b/contrib/ncurses/AUTHORS
index 09dfc9a9efa6..f588fc44f2f4 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/AUTHORS
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/AUTHORS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Copyright 2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey --
+-- Copyright 2020-2024,2025 Thomas E. Dickey --
-- Copyright 2006,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
-- --
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a --
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written --
-- authorization. --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- $Id: AUTHORS,v 1.5 2021/06/17 21:20:30 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: AUTHORS,v 1.8 2025/11/12 01:25:55 tom Exp $
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
These are the principal authors/contributors of ncurses since 1.9.9e,
in decreasing order of their contribution:
@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@ JPF Juergen Pfeifer
ESR Eric S Raymond
AVL Alexander V Lukyanov
PB Philippe Blain
+GBR Branden Robinson
SV Sven Verdoolaege
-NB Nicolas Boulenguez
+NB Nicolas Boulenguez
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/COPYING b/contrib/ncurses/COPYING
index 540047f121f1..6182a3bc671f 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/COPYING
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/COPYING
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey
+Copyright 2018-2024,2025 Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
authorization.
-- vile:txtmode fc=72
--- $Id: COPYING,v 1.13 2024/01/05 21:13:17 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: COPYING,v 1.14 2025/01/04 10:53:46 tom Exp $
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL b/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL
index a2076eeec261..fea738a4c465 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey --
+-- Copyright 2018-2024,2025 Thomas E. Dickey --
-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
-- --
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a --
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written --
-- authorization. --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.254 2024/04/27 14:21:05 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.263 2025/12/30 20:42:25 tom Exp $
---------------------------------------------------------------------
How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
---------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -550,8 +550,8 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
problem.
--enable-bsdpad
- Recognize BSD-style prefix padding. Some ancient BSD programs (such as
- nethack) call tputs("50") to implement delays.
+ Recognize BSD-style prefix padding. Some programs written using
+ the BSD curses API use tputs("50") to implement delays.
--enable-check-size
Compile-in feature to detect screensize for terminals which do not
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
as such to the debugger. See also the --disable-macros option.
--enable-exp-win32
- When configuring for MinGW, use the experimental Windows 10 driver.
+ This is an obsolete option used for configuring the Windows 10 driver
+ for MinGW.
--enable-ext-colors
Extend the cchar_t structure to allow more than 16 colors to be
@@ -650,6 +651,12 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
may not be accurate, or that your stty settings have disabled the use
of tabs.
+ --enable-install-prefix
+ Extend the --with-install-prefix feature to replace the prefix value
+ with $DESTDIR rather than simply prepending $DESTDIR to install
+ pathnames. This works with any "make" which supports AT&T style
+ variable substitution.
+
--enable-interop
Compile-in experimental interop bindings. These provide generic types
for the form-library.
@@ -660,6 +667,10 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
systems). If you do not specify this option, the configure script
checks the current filesystem.
+ --enable-named-pipes
+ Compile-in support for named pipes, used to connect to Windows 10
+ pseudo-console.
+
--enable-no-padding
Compile-in support for the $NCURSES_NO_PADDING environment variable,
which allows you to suppress the effect of non-mandatory padding in
@@ -703,7 +714,7 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs. This originally
(in 1997) applied mainly to systems using the GNU linker (read the
- manpage).
+ man page).
More recently it is useful for systems that require special treatment
shared libraries in "unusual" locations. The "system" libraries reside
@@ -768,9 +779,9 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
unless you have disabled the extended functions.
--enable-term-driver
- Enable experimental terminal-driver. This is currently used for the
- MinGW port, by providing a way to substitute the low-level terminfo
- library with different terminal drivers.
+ Enable terminal-driver. This is required for the MinGW port, by
+ providing a way to substitute the low-level terminfo library with
+ different terminal drivers.
--enable-termcap
Compile in support for reading terminal descriptions from termcap if no
@@ -1097,34 +1108,35 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
./configure --enable-static
--with-manpage-aliases
- Tell the configure script you wish to create entries in the
- man-directory for aliases to manpages which list them, e.g., the
- functions in the panel manpage. This is the default. You can disable
- it if your man program does this. You can also disable
- --with-manpage-symlinks to install files containing a ".so" command
- rather than symbolic links.
+ Create files in subdirectories of the installation "man" directory that
+ alias the man pages documenting them. For example, the "beep" man page
+ also documents the function "flash". This is the default. You can
+ disable this procedure if your system's makewhatis(8) or mandb(8)
+ program indexes the directory to which the pages are installed. If you
+ disable man page symlinks by specifying "--without-manpage-symlinks",
+ the alias pages are created as stubs containing ".so" *roff requests.
--with-manpage-format=XXX
- Tell the configure script how you would like to install man-pages. The
- option value must be one of these: gzip, compress, BSDI, normal,
- formatted. If you do not give this option, the configure script
+ Tell the configure script how you would like to install man pages. The
+ option value must be one of these: "gzip", "compress", "BSDI", "normal",
+ "formatted". If you do not specify this option, the configure script
attempts to determine which is the case.
--with-manpage-renames=XXX
- Tell the configure script that you wish to rename the manpages while
- installing. Currently the only distribution which does this is Debian.
+ Tell the configure script that you wish to rename the man pages when
+ installing them. Debian and distributions descended from it do this.
The option value specifies the name of a file that lists the renamed
- files, e.g., $srcdir/man/man_db.renames
+ files, e.g., "$srcdir/man/man_db.renames".
--with-manpage-symlinks
Tell the configure script that you wish to make symbolic links in the
- man-directory for aliases to the man-pages. This is the default, but
- can be disabled for systems that provide this automatically. Doing
- this on systems that do not support symbolic links will result in
- copying the man-page for each alias.
+ man-directory for aliases to the man pages. This is the default, but
+ can be disabled for systems that provide this service automatically.
+ Doing this on systems that do not support symbolic links creates a copy
+ of the target man page for each alias.
--with-manpage-tbl
- Tell the configure script that you wish to preprocess the manpages
+ Tell the configure script that you wish to preprocess the man pages
by running them through tbl to generate tables understandable by
nroff.
@@ -1182,11 +1194,11 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
--with-pkg-config-libdir[=DIR]
If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
path. The optional DIR value can be
-
+
"auto", automatically use pkg-config's library directory, or
-
+
"libdir", use a ${libdir}/pkgconfig (based on the configuration), or
-
+
a directory path, i.e., beginning with "/".
The configure script allows only a single directory, because
@@ -1351,11 +1363,9 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
several builds, some symbols will be listed in the the ".map" files
that do not happen to be present in one configuration or another.
- The sample ".map" (and ".sym") files are generated using a set of
- scripts which build several configurations for each release version,
- checking to see which of the "_nc_" symbols can be made local. In
- addition to the ncurses libraries and programs, the symbols used
- by the "tack" program before version 1.08 are made global.
+ The sample ".map" (and ".sym") files were generated using a set of
+ scripts which built several configurations for each release version,
+ checking to see which of the "_nc_" symbols can be made local.
These sample ".map" files will not cover all possible combinations.
In some cases, e.g., when using the --with-weak-symbols option, you
@@ -1393,10 +1403,10 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
--without-curses-h
Don't install the ncurses header with the name "curses.h". Rather,
- install as "ncurses.h" and modify the installed headers and manpages
+ install as "ncurses.h" and modify the installed headers and man pages
accordingly.
- Likewise, do not install an alias "curses" for the ncurses manpage.
+ Likewise, do not install an alias "curses" for the ncurses man page.
--without-cxx
XSI curses declares "bool" as part of the interface. C++ also declares
@@ -1419,7 +1429,7 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
Do not use dlsym() to load GPM dynamically.
--without-manpages
- Tell the configure script to suppress the install of ncurses' manpages.
+ Tell the configure script to suppress the install of ncurses' man pages.
--without-progs
Tell the configure script to suppress the build of ncurses' application
@@ -1451,7 +1461,32 @@ COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER RELEASES:
you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
ncurses:
- 6.5 (Apt 27, 2024)
+ 6.6 (Dec 30, 2025)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + none
+
+ Added extensions:
+
+ + none
+
+ Added internal functions (other than "_sp" variants):
+
+ + _nc_is_path_found
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+
+ + none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+
+ + These now pass a const parameter: _nc_has_mouse,
+ _nc_reset_color_pair, _nc_free_entry, and _nc_timed_wait.
+ + These now use a NCURSES_BOOL where an int was used:
+ _nc_setupscreen, _nc_keypad, _nc_unicode_locale, and
+ _nc_retrace_bool.
+
+ 6.5 (Apr 27, 2024)
Interface changes:
+ the WINDOW structure and some related internal data types declared
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/MANIFEST b/contrib/ncurses/MANIFEST
index a9395d2f8a09..dc791dbe0f1c 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/MANIFEST
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/MANIFEST
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
./Ada95/mk-pkg.awk
./Ada95/package/AdaCurses-doc.spec
./Ada95/package/AdaCurses.spec
+./Ada95/package/debian/adacurses.lintian-overrides
+./Ada95/package/debian/adacurses.triggers
./Ada95/package/debian/compat
./Ada95/package/debian/control
./Ada95/package/debian/copyright
@@ -556,21 +558,18 @@
./include/headers
./include/nc_access.h
./include/nc_alloc.h
-./include/nc_mingw.h
./include/nc_panel.h
./include/nc_string.h
./include/nc_termios.h
./include/nc_tparm.h
-./include/nc_win32.h
+./include/nc_win32.h.in
./include/ncurses_cfg.hin
./include/ncurses_defs
./include/ncurses_dll.h.in
-./include/ncurses_mingw.h
./include/term_entry.h
./include/termcap.h.in
./include/tic.h
./include/unctrl.h.in
-./include/win32_curses.h
./install-sh
./man/MKada_config.in
./man/MKncu_config.in
@@ -900,6 +899,7 @@
./ncurses/llib-ltinfow
./ncurses/modules
./ncurses/new_pair.h
+./ncurses/report_ctype.c
./ncurses/report_hashing.c
./ncurses/report_offsets.c
./ncurses/term.priv.h
@@ -1007,12 +1007,11 @@
./ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c
./ncurses/win32con/wcwidth.c
./ncurses/win32con/win32_driver.c
-./ncurses/win32con/win_driver.c
./package/debian-mingw/changelog
./package/debian-mingw/compat
./package/debian-mingw/control
./package/debian-mingw/copyright
-./package/debian-mingw/mingw32-ncurses6.lintian-overrides
+./package/debian-mingw/mingw32-ncurses6td.lintian-overrides
./package/debian-mingw/rules
./package/debian-mingw/source/format
./package/debian-mingw/watch
@@ -1020,7 +1019,7 @@
./package/debian-mingw64/compat
./package/debian-mingw64/control
./package/debian-mingw64/copyright
-./package/debian-mingw64/mingw64-ncurses6.lintian-overrides
+./package/debian-mingw64/mingw64-ncurses6td.lintian-overrides
./package/debian-mingw64/rules
./package/debian-mingw64/source/format
./package/debian-mingw64/watch
@@ -1028,10 +1027,10 @@
./package/debian/compat
./package/debian/control
./package/debian/copyright
-./package/debian/ncurses6.lintian-overrides
-./package/debian/ncurses6.triggers
-./package/debian/ncursest6.lintian-overrides
-./package/debian/ncursest6.triggers
+./package/debian/ncurses6td.lintian-overrides
+./package/debian/ncurses6td.triggers
+./package/debian/ncursest6td.lintian-overrides
+./package/debian/ncursest6td.triggers
./package/debian/rules
./package/debian/source/format
./package/debian/watch
@@ -1190,6 +1189,8 @@
./test/package/debian/control
./test/package/debian/copyright
./test/package/debian/docs
+./test/package/debian/ncurses-examples.lintian-overrides
+./test/package/debian/ncursest-examples.lintian-overrides
./test/package/debian/rules
./test/package/debian/source/format
./test/package/debian/watch
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.in b/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.in
index 1303e171cfa1..9a55006e0331 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.in
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# $Id: Makefile.in,v 1.46 2022/10/01 22:53:36 tom Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile.in,v 1.51 2025/10/25 18:01:01 tom Exp $
##############################################################################
-# Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey #
+# Copyright 2018-2022,2025 Thomas E. Dickey #
# Copyright 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. #
# #
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a #
@@ -35,11 +35,10 @@
SHELL = @SHELL@
VPATH = @srcdir@
-DESTDIR=@DESTDIR@
-RPATH_LIST=@RPATH_LIST@
-TOP_MFLAGS = @cf_cv_makeflags@ DESTDIR="$(DESTDIR)" RPATH_LIST="$(RPATH_LIST)"
-
@SET_MAKE@
+@SET_DESTDIR@
+RPATH_LIST = @RPATH_LIST@
+TOP_MFLAGS = DESTDIR="$(DESTDIR)" RPATH_LIST="$(RPATH_LIST)"
NCURSES_MAJOR = @NCURSES_MAJOR@
NCURSES_MINOR = @NCURSES_MINOR@
@@ -93,6 +92,7 @@ preinstall :
@ echo ''
@ echo ' extended funcs: '`test @NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS@ != 0 && echo yes || echo no`
@ echo ' xterm terminfo: '@WHICH_XTERM@
+ @ echo ' ABI suffix: '`if test -n "@ABI_SUFFIX@"; then echo @ABI_SUFFIX@; else echo "(none)"; fi`
@ echo ''
@ echo ' bin directory: '$(bindir)
@ echo ' lib directory: '$(libdir)
@@ -114,13 +114,10 @@ preinstall :
distclean \
realclean ::
-check :
- @ echo The test-programs are interactive
-
-
# Put the common rules here so that we can easily construct the list of
# directories to visit.
all \
+check \
clean \
distclean \
mostlyclean \
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.os2 b/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.os2
index bc3407d65750..68d4f898413d 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.os2
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/Makefile.os2
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
##############################################################################
-# Copyright 2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey #
+# Copyright 2020-2021,2025 Thomas E. Dickey #
# Copyright 1998-2000,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. #
# #
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a #
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
# use or other dealings in this Software without prior written #
# authorization. #
################################################################################
-# $Id: Makefile.os2,v 1.13 2021/06/17 21:20:30 tom Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile.os2,v 1.15 2025/07/12 10:48:01 tom Exp $
#
# Wrapper Makefile for ncurses library under OS/2.
# Author: Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>.
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ OS2NAME=ncurses-$(NCURSES_MAJOR).$(NCURSES_MINOR)-emx
os2dist :
$(MAKE) -f Makefile.os2 os2clean
./configure --without-debug --with-install-prefix=`pwd|sed -e 's@^.:@@'`/$(OS2NAME)
- $(MAKE) -f Makefile.os2 $(CF_MFLAGS) install.os2
+ $(MAKE) -f Makefile.os2 install.os2
-rm -f $(OS2NAME).zip
echo NCurses-$(NCURSES_MAJOR).$(NCURSES_MINOR)-$(NCURSES_PATCH) for emx > $(OS2NAME)/FILE_ID.DIZ
echo Binary release. >> $(OS2NAME)/FILE_ID.DIZ
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/NEWS b/contrib/ncurses/NEWS
index 8bedbc8264e1..c10767b675c8 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/NEWS
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey --
+-- Copyright 2018-2024,2025 Thomas E. Dickey --
-- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
-- --
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a --
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written --
-- authorization. --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4114 2024/04/27 18:00:35 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.4390 2025/12/30 20:31:07 tom Exp $
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,575 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20251230 6.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update announcement
+ + corrected an ifdef needed for mouse support in MinGW/Windows
+ + eliminate remaining duplicate code between MinGW/Windows drivers
+
+20251227
+ + make win32_curses.h obsolete in favor of nc_win32.h
+ + modify MinGW32 configuration to account for its use of Windows-style
+ pathnames in filesystem checks.
+ + replace --enable-exp-win32 option with --enable-named-pipes
+
+20251220
+ > in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port.
+ + eliminate EXP_WIN32_DRIVER with USE_NAMED_PIPES
+ + change MS_TERMINAL to DEFAULT_TERM_VAR
+
+20251213
+ + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port.
+ + add a null-pointer check in tic -c option.
+ + add a limit-check in infocmp -i option (report/example by Yixuan Cao).
+
+20251206
+ + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port.
+
+20251129
+ + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port.
+
+20251123
+ + revert change using NCURSES_SBOOL in tic.h which interfered with
+ sign-extension in tigetflag (Debian #1121191, cf: 20251101).
+
+20251122
+ + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port.
+ + correct expression for TINFO_LIB variable in misc/ncurses-config.in
+ (Debian #1121208, cf: 20251004).
+
+20251115
+ + check for special case of wcrtomb() converting a single byte code to
+ a different single byte code, which glibc does for code 160 in the
+ KOI8-R encoding (report by Yury V Zaytsev).
+ + improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ + amend recent changes to mouse handling to avoid a case which caused
+ a loop in wgetch until additional input is provided (htop #1769,
+ cf: 20250913).
+
+20251101
+ + adjust generated terminfo.5 to omit tbl "x" column modifier if that
+ is unsupported, i.e., with old nroff/tbl (adapted from patch by
+ Branden Robinson).
+ + in-progress work to merge MinGW/Windows port.
+
+20251025
+ + amend locale-portability fix in tty_update.c (MidnightCommander #4799,
+ cf: 20240203).
+ + add testing utility report_ctype
+ + update configure macros, improving check for $host_os
+ + correct a recent change to curs_termino.3x, along with formatting
+ fixes for manpages.
+ + corrected note about box() in curs_border.3x (patch by Jakub Horky,
+ cf: 20250201).
+
+20251018
+ + add check for build-time utilities, in case cross-compiling is setup
+ with an invalid $BUILD_CC (prompted by discussion with Stas Sergeev).
+ + modify configure-script and makefiles to make it easier to override
+ the "--with-install-prefix" default with environment variable
+ (report by Stas Sergeev).
+
+20251010
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