https://bugs.gentoo.org/683738

Thanks-to: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -214,10 +216,11 @@
     AC_SUBST(LOSC_CFLAGS)
 
     dnl curses
-    AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses,initscr,have_ncurses=yes,[AC_MSG_WARN([******** you don't have the ncurses library correctly installed])])
-
-    NCURSES_LIBS=-lncurses
-    AC_SUBST(NCURSES_LIBS)
+    PKG_CHECK_MODULES([NCURSES], [ncurses], [have_ncurses=yes],
+		      AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, initscr, have_ncurses=yes,
+		    		   [AC_MSG_WARN([******** you don't have the ncurses library correctly installed])]
+		    		  )
+		     )
 
     dnl sigc++
     PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SIGCPP, sigc++-2.0 >= 2.2.10)