ncurses 5.7 - patch 20090105

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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1339 2008/12/13 21:02:18 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1353 2009/01/06 00:26:35 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,49 @@ 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.
 
+20090105
+       + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
+         prefix variable.
+       + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
+         --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
+         subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
+         (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20090104
+       + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
+         deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
+         for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
+         account.
+       + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
+         used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
+
+20090103
+       + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
+         CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
+       + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
+         with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
+         for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
+       + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
+         option.
+       + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
+         configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
+         options.
+       + update config.guess, config.sub from
+               http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+
+20081227
+       + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
+       + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
+         on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
+
+20081220
+       + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
+         --disable-ext-funcs is used.
+       + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
+         wrapping.
+       + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
+       + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
+
 20081213
        + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
          (GenToo #245370).