diff --git a/packages/devel/ncurses/build b/packages/devel/ncurses/build
index be41a3ab29..8551d64725 100755
--- a/packages/devel/ncurses/build
+++ b/packages/devel/ncurses/build
@@ -7,15 +7,13 @@ CWD=`pwd`
 setup_toolchain host
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD/ncurses-host
-./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-            --build=$HOST_NAME \
-            --prefix=/usr \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc \
-            --without-shared \
+./configure
 
 make -C include
 make -C progs tic
 
+cp -PR progs/tic $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
+
 cd "$CWD"
 
 setup_toolchain target
@@ -35,11 +33,11 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
             --without-cxx-binding \
             --without-ada \
             --without-progs \
-            --without-shared \
+            --with-shared \
             --without-normal \
             --without-debug \
             --without-profile \
-            --without-termlib \
+            --with-termlib \
             --without-dbmalloc \
             --without-dmalloc \
             --without-gpm \
@@ -71,10 +69,11 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
 make -C include
 make -C ncurses
 
-#$AR cru lib/libncurses.a obj_s/*.o
+$AR cru lib/libncurses.a obj_s/*.o
 
 $MAKEINSTALL -C include
 $MAKEINSTALL -C ncurses
 
-cd $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include/ncurses
-cp curses.h term.h ../
+cp $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include/ncurses/curses.h \
+   $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include/ncurses/term.h \
+   $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include/
diff --git a/packages/devel/ncurses/install b/packages/devel/ncurses/install
index bc1fa8244e..287861abfc 100755
--- a/packages/devel/ncurses/install
+++ b/packages/devel/ncurses/install
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 . config/options
 
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-cp $PKG_BUILD/lib/libncurses.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
+cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/lib/libncurses.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
+cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/lib/libtinfo.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
 
-#mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/share/terminfo/l
-#TERMINFO=$INSTALL/usr/share/terminfo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`ls -d $PKG_BUILD/ncurses-host/lib`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH $PKG_BUILD/ncurses-host/progs/tic -xe linux $PKG_BUILD/misc/terminfo.src
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/share/terminfo/l
+TERMINFO=$INSTALL/usr/share/terminfo $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin/tic -xe linux $PKG_BUILD/misc/terminfo.src