ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150214

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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2322 2014/12/27 17:39:19 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2349 2015/02/15 01:13:13 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,51 @@ 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.
 
+20150214
+       + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
+       + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
+         for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
+         Fink).
+
+20150131
+       + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
+         the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
+
+20150124
+       + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
+         ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_".  On at
+         least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
+       + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
+         ncurses/Makefile.in (cf:  20130706).
+
+20150117
+       + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
+       + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
+         configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
+
+20150110
+       + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
+         symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
+       + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
+         with FreeBSD ports.
+       + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
+         ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
+         all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
+       + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
+         use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
+       + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
+         cross-compiles.  Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
+         rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
+       + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
+         (report by Pavel Balaev).
+
+20150103
+       + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
+       + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
+         via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
+       + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
+         variations in ABI 6.
+
 20141227
        + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
          the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by