I hate to send this silly problem to you as It it probably a problem with my
redhat environment, however I was unable to find any type of support/bug
section on the ncurses homepage. Here is the tail of running the make command
gcc -O2 -o xmas ../objects/xmas.o -L../lib -lform -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
-I../test -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shell/ncurses-5.4/test'
cd misc && make DESTDIR="" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/shell/ncurses-5.4/misc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shell/ncurses-5.4/misc'
cd c++ && make DESTDIR="" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/shell/ncurses-5.4/c++'
cd ../objects; -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include
-D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -c ../c++/cursesf.cc