Index: tmp_buildroot-2016.05/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
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--- tmp_buildroot-2016.05.orig/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
+++ tmp_buildroot-2016.05/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ ifneq ($(BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG),y)
 NCURSES_CONF_OPTS += --without-debug
 endif
 
+NCURSES_CONF_OPTS += CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) $(DEFAULT_CFLAGS_LIB)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) $(DEFAULT_LDFLAGS_LIB)"
+
 # ncurses breaks with parallel build, but takes quite a while to
 # build single threaded. Work around it similar to how Gentoo does
 define NCURSES_BUILD_CMDS