diff --git a/packages/devel/ncurses/build b/packages/devel/ncurses/build
index f7e11e11f5..d1b1c7f2a5 100755
--- a/packages/devel/ncurses/build
+++ b/packages/devel/ncurses/build
@@ -27,12 +27,14 @@ CWD=`pwd`
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD/ncurses-host
-./configure
+./configure --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
+            --with-shared \
 
 make -C include
 make -C progs tic
 
 cp progs/tic $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
+cp lib/*.so* $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/lib
 
 cd "$CWD"
 
diff --git a/scripts/checkdeps b/scripts/checkdeps
index 26fa0245f2..8f08015c9a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkdeps
+++ b/scripts/checkdeps
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ case $1 in
   build)
     deps="gcc g++ sed patch touch tar bzip2 gzip lzma perl cp gawk makeinfo gettext autopoint gperf autoconf automake m4 cvs zip unzip mkfontscale libtool diff xsltproc msgfmt"
     deps_pkg="gcc g++ sed patch fileutils tar bzip2 gzip lzma perl coreutils gawk texinfo gettext gettext-devel gperf autoconf automake m4 cvs zip unzip xutils libtool diff xsltproc gettext"
-    files="/usr/lib/libc.a /usr/include/stdio.h /usr/include/ncurses.h"
-    files_pkg="glibc-static libc6-dev libncurses5-dev"
+    files="/usr/include/stdio.h /usr/include/ncurses.h"
+    files_pkg="libc6-dev libncurses5-dev"
     ;;
   qemu)
     if [ ! `which qemu` ]; then