ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111224

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1818 2011/11/13 02:07:55 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1835 2011/12/25 01:40:20 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,65 @@ 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.
 
+20111224
+       + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
+         with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
+         analysis.
+       + add putty-sco entry -TD
+
+20111217
+       + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
+         was not being used.
+       + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
+         could use.
+       + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
+         are all enabled.  The terminal driver depends on a few features in
+         the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
+         and termlib.
+       + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
+         enabled.
+       + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
+
+20111210
+       + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
+         pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
+       + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
+         for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
+         _SGI_SOURCE.
+       + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
+         tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
+       + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
+
+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++.
+
+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).
+
+20111119
+       + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
+         from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
+         (cf: 20110416)
+       + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
+         i.e., the database iterator was not initialized.  This case is needed
+         to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
+         database (cf:  20111001).
+
 20111112
        + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
        + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to