ncurses 6.0 - patch 20151024

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2499 2015/09/26 21:58:14 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2516 2015/10/25 00:17:28 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,49 @@ 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.
 
+20151024
+       + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
+         to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
+       + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
+         annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
+         did not display well.
+       + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
+       + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
+       + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
+         the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
+         Normand).
+       + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
+         FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
+       + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
+         minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
+       + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
+       + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
+         Internet Archive -TD
+       + update config.guess, config.sub from
+               http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
+
+20151017
+       + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
+         (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
+       + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
+         data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
+         (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
+       > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
+       + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
+       + support building with libtool on OS/2
+       + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
+       + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
+
+20151010
+       + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
+       + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
+       + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
+       + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
+         change.
+       + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
+         fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
+         (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
+
 20150926
        + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
          than clean.
@@ -1703,7 +1746,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
          path is a directory or file, according to the need.  Checking for
          directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
-       + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+       + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
 
 20120114
        + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on