ncurses 5.9 - patch 20121026

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1949 2012/09/01 23:35:55 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1967 2012/10/27 22:04:27 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,56 @@ 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.
 
+20121026
+       + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
+         #866989).
+       + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
+       + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST.  The
+         first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
+
+20121017
+       + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory 
+         (Redhat #866989).
+
+20121013
+       + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
+         (patch by Christian Persch).
+
+20121006
+       + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
+         --version message.
+       + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
+         + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
+           has used that for a while.
+         + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
+           for experimental use.
+         + remove unused configure macros.
+       + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
+         for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
+       + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20120922
+       + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
+         for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
+       + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
+         use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
+         "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
+       + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
+         older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
+
+20120908
+       + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
+         to help with MinGW port.
+
+20120903
+       + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
+         there.
+       + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
+
+20120902
+       + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
+
 20120901
        + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
        + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array