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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1339 2008/12/13 21:02:18 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1351 2009/01/04 22:43:22 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+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).