ncurses 5.8 - patch 20110226

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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 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 1.1624 2010/12/25 23:56:36 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1651 2011/02/26 16:54:31 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,70 @@ 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.
 
+20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20110226
+       + update release notes, for 5.8.
+       + regenerated html manpages.
+       + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
+         with write_file().
+       + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
+         a new install of hashed database.
+       + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
+
+20110220
+       + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
+       + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
+         configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
+         wide-character configuration.
+       + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
+       + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
+
+20110212
+       + regenerated html manpages.
+       + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
+         special case of trace configuration. 
+
+20110205
+       + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
+       + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
+         support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
+       + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
+         extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
+         discussion).
+
+20110122
+       + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
+       + correct limit-checks in derwin().
+       + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
+         size (report by Garrett Cooper).
+       + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
+         Alcock).
+       + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
+         by discussion with Kevin Martin).
+
+20110115
+       + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
+         work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
+       + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
+       + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+       + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
+       + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
+       + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
+         file configuration if that is used.
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20110108
+       + regenerated html manpages.
+       + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
+         clang --analyze.
+       + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+       + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
+
+20110101
+       + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
+         except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
+
 20101225
        + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
          allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
@@ -3702,7 +3766,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 20030208
        + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
-       + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
+       + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
          which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
          Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
        + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent.  Before,
@@ -4421,7 +4485,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
          setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
          interrupted by that signal.
-       + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
+       + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
          not needed with autoconf 2.52
        + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
                autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)