[twobob]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@twobob: Check my ncurses stage (or a Gentoo ebuild) if you want to preserve ABI compatiblity with previous ncurses version (5.4), there's a bunch of flags to pass to configure to avoid mismatch in data types.

NiLuJe ncurses stage For easy Ref

Spoiler:

## ncurses & htop for USBNet
echo "* Building ncurses . . ."
echo ""
cd ..
tar xvzf /usr/portage/distfiles/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
cd ncurses-5.9
export CFLAGS="${BASE_CFLAGS}"
export CXXFLAGS="${BASE_CFLAGS}"
patch -p1 < /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/files/ncurses-5.8-gfbsd.patch
patch -p1 < /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/files/ncurses-5.7-nongnu.patch
patch -p0 < /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/files/ncurses-5.9-rxvt-unicode-9.15.patch
sed -i -e '/^PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR/s:=.*:=$(libdir)/pkgconfig:' misc/Makefile.in || die
unset TERMINFO
export CPPFLAGS="${BASE_CPPFLAGS} -D_GNU_SOURCE"
./configure --prefix=${TC_BUILD_DIR} --host=${CROSS_TC} --with-normal --with-chtype=long --with-mmask-t=long --disable-ext-colors --disable-ext-mouse --without-pthread --without-reentrant --with-terminfo-dirs="/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo" --with-shared --without-hashed-db --without-ada --without-cxx --without-cxx-binding --without-debug --without-profile --without-gpm --disable-termcap --enable-symlinks --with-rcs-ids --with-manpage-format=normal --enable-const --enable-colorfgbg --enable-echo --enable-pc-files
make -j1 sources
rm -f misc/pc-files
make -j2 -C progs tic
make install