Updated: ncurses, libncurses7, libncurses-devel, ncurses-demo -5.3-4[Requires cygwin-1.5.3+]

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling 
libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus.  It is often used 
instead of termcap.

This release is built against the cygwin-1.5.x kernel; it will not work 
with 1.3.22.

CHANGES

* compiled against the 1.5.2 kernel

* minor bugfix to the postinstall script

* Fixed a number of minor packaging errors (all readmes +were+ in
  ncurses- and not split among the tarballs as the were intended)

* updated to a recent (20030802) official patchlevel -- most of
  the earlier cygwin-specific patches have been folded in to
  those official patchlevels.  However...

* Added a lot of support for building shared libs using libtool
  ( !!!!  THANK YOU Nicholas Wourms  !!!! ).  Unfortunately, I
  was not able to actually RELEASE the libtool-built ncurses,
  for the reasons detailed in the NOTES section, below.

--
Charles Wilson
ncurses volunteer maintainer for cygwin

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NOTES:

* Added a lot of support for building shared libs using libtool
  ( !!!!  THANK YOU Nicholas Wourms  !!!! ).  Unfortunately, I
  was not able to actually RELEASE the libtool-built ncurses,
  for the reasons detailed below:

   1) Requires Yet Another DLL rename.  cygncurses7.dll -->
      cygncurses-5.dll (or some other number; the ncurses maintainer
      does not use the same variable to set DLL versions when
      building non-libtool and when building libtool).  But simply
      the '-' is problematic, even if I make both numerals '7'.
      Libtool insists on the '-'.  So, I figured I'd spare
      everybody another version split -- especially as so many
      packages which depend on ncurses have just been rebuilt
      against 5.3-4/1.5.3+; to bump the version again so soon
      would require all of those to be rebuilt, which is really
      unnecessary at this time.

   2) The libtool wrapper I released recently (with the
      "WANT_LIBTOOL_VER" environment variable) are *almost* right.
      But not quite.  So, I need to release another set of wrappers
      before using them to build one of my maintained packages.

   3) libtool itself has a bug with multilanguage support and
      relinking.  The '--tag=<language>' is required...but libtool
      doesn't store the tag info in the uninstalled .la file.  So,
      when installing, libtool tries to relink the shared library,
      but without the --tag=CXX flag.  This, of course, fails.
      I've reported this to the libtool developers, and provided
      a simpler testcase, but no joy yet.

So, *EVENTUALLY* I'll move ncurses to use libtool, but not just yet. 
However, my investigations led to a whole new set of patches, derived 
from Nicholas's contributions, that should -- once libtool-wrapper and 
libtool itself are fixed -- allow an immediate and painless (for me, ?) 
switchover to libtool-based builds.