ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141206

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2293 2014/10/25 00:20:09 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,39 @@ 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.
 
+20141206
+       + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
+         the different library configurations has the same label.  Some
+         review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
+       + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
+         gcc introduced here:
+                 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
+                 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
+         (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
+       + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
+
+20141129
+       + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
+         ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
+         A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
+         symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
+         which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
+
+20141115
+       + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
+         curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
+       + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
+         used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
+       + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
+         the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
+       + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
+         symbol-versioning.
+
+20141101
+       + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
+         and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
+         not apply.
+
 20141025
        + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
          msys2 configuration.