Unable to build ncurses 5.7 on Fedora 13

[John P. Hartmann]

gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o  -I../progs -I.
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
 -DNDEBUG -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 -static -L../lib
-lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic   -o tic
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [tic] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses-5.7/progs'

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Jul  6 15:30 /usr/lib/libc.so

I've built other packages from source without problems.  Is it a
versioning problem?  [I did read INSTALL.]

   j.