We should always link with libncurses. This is not noticeable when building the debian packages because we install libncurses5 runtime library as a dependency. Index: sendd-0.2/cgatool/Makefile =================================================================== --- sendd-0.2/cgatool/Makefile 2008-10-05 16:26:28.000000000 +0200 +++ sendd-0.2.new/cgatool/Makefile 2008-10-21 18:03:28.000000000 +0200 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ LDFLAGS= -L../libs/.libs endif -LDLIBS += -lcrypto +LDLIBS += -lcrypto -lncurses ifeq ($(USE_THREADS),y) LDLIBS += -lpthread Index: sendd-0.2/sendd/Makefile =================================================================== diff -urN sendd-0.2/sendd/Makefile sendd-0.2.new/sendd/Makefile --- sendd-0.2/sendd/Makefile 2008-05-27 17:04:08.000000000 +0200 +++ sendd-0.2.new/sendd/Makefile 2008-10-21 18:49:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ LDFLAGS= -L../libs/.libs endif -LDLIBS += -lcrypto +LDLIBS += -lcrypto -lncurses LDLIBS += $(OSLIBS) ifeq ($(USE_THREADS),y)