ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200808

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3519 2020/07/11 23:21:07 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -46,6 +46,46 @@ 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.
 
+20200808
+       + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
+         of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+       + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
+         AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
+         --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
+         fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
+         (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+       + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
+       + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
+         parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
+         MinGW.
+
+20200801
+       + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
+       + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
+         (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+       + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
+         reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
+       + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
+
+20200725
+       + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
+         "Maarten Anonymous")
+       + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+       + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
+         Florian Weimer).
+
+20200718
+       + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
+         Studio C++.
+       + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
+         libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
+       > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
+         (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+       + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
+         the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+       + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+       + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
+
 20200711
        + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
          Bruckl).