Unable to set -fPIC for libncurses.a objects

[Jeffrey Walton]

I've trying to build cURL (and cURL dependents) from source on
Solaris. GetText is failing because I can't seem to get Ncurses to use
PIC.

CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS have -fPIC. configure was run with both
--with-shared and --with-cxx-shared. The output of my Ncurses build is
at https://pastebin.com/PMLxW1Zk. It is clearly missing the PIC flags.

How do I force Ncurses to use PIC for the objects it builds?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff