ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110820

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1755 2011/07/30 22:57:54 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1771 2011/08/20 21:36:44 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,43 @@ 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.
 
+20110820
+       + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
+         not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
+       + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
+       + add terminator entry -TD
+       + add simpleterm entry -TD
+       + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
+         null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
+         (cf: 20110528).
+
+20110813
+       + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
+       + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
+         database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
+       + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
+         entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
+         guaranteed to be unique.  Also ignore these aliases when reporting
+         the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
+       + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
+         accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
+       + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
+         error-return.
+
+20110807
+       + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
+         variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
+       + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
+       + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
+       + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
+       + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
+         from tic/infocmp.
+       + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
+         field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
+       + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
+         use a single line.
+       + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
+
 20110730
        + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
          directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work