ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111112

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1812 2011/10/30 14:36:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1818 2011/11/13 02:07:55 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ 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.
 
+20111112
+       + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
+       + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
+         600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
+         C++ header files.
+       + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
+         e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
+         by Robert Millan).
+       + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
+         in older FreeBSD machines.
+       + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
+         _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
+       + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
+
 20111030
        + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
          directory as an existing "terminfo" directory.  This fixes a case
@@ -470,7 +484,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 20110212
        + regenerated html manpages.
        + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
-         special case of trace configuration. 
+         special case of trace configuration.
 
 20110205
        + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
@@ -534,7 +548,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          version which works with termcap.
        + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
          (request by Sven Joachim).
-       + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html 
+       + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
          (report by Sven Joachim).
 
 20101128
@@ -609,8 +623,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          Sven Joachim).
        + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
        > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
-       + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW 
-       + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in 
+       + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
+       + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
        + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
          Joachim).
        + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
@@ -793,7 +807,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 20100417
        + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
        + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
-         terminfo to termcap strings 
+         terminfo to termcap strings
        + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
          which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
        + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given