ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220827

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3836 2022/07/24 10:06:18 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3851 2022/08/27 19:29:31 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,43 @@ 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.
 
+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
+
+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
+
+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
+
+20220806
+       + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
+         newline.
+       + check for non-textfiles to tic.
+
+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+.
+
 20220724
        + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
        + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c