ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070203

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1063 2006/12/31 00:11:42 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1079 2007/02/04 00:30:41 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,59 @@ 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.
 
+20070203
+       + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
+         from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. 
+         Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
+         associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
+         Ricardo Cantu).
+       + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
+       + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
+       + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
+         to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
+       + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
+         no longer relies on it.
+       + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
+         --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
+       + remove tack from ncurses tree.  
+
+20070128
+       + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
+         (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070127
+       + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
+         to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
+       + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
+         it is removed from the ncurses tree.
+       + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+         (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+       + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
+         its license consistent with ncurses.
+       + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
+         the c++ binding for scanw() methods.
+       + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
+
+20070120
+       + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
+         term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
+       + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
+       + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
+         Lichvar).
+
+20070113
+       + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
+         _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
+       + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
+         ncurses build-tree.
+       + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
+         in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070106
+       + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+       + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
+         (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
 20061230
        + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
          (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).