Hi @mkromer ,
thanks - read that, too, but though differently stated in the rel-notes of ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.el6, we still get:
A working fix is switching to ncurses-header instead of curses.h in configure.ac:
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncurses.h])
versus
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([curses.h])
++umgfoin.