There is now a libncurses-dev package

libncurses-dev/Makefile

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+# Copyright (C) 2008 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=libncurses-dev
+PKG_VERSION:=5.7
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+NCURSES_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/ncurses-$(PKG_VERSION)
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/libncurses-dev
+  TITLE:=Files required to develop with ncurses
+  SECTION:=development
+  CATEGORY:=Development
+  URL:=http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html
+  DEPENDS:=+libncurses
+endef
+
+define Package/libncurses-dev/description
+  Header files needed to compile ncurses programs along with man pages for the API
+endef
+
+# There is nothing to compile:
+define Build/Compile
+endef
+
+define Package/libncurses-dev/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) \
+		$(1)/usr/include \
+		$(1)/usr/share/man/man3
+
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) \
+		$(NCURSES_BUILD_DIR)/include/*.h \
+		$(1)/usr/include
+
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) \
+		$(NCURSES_BUILD_DIR)/man/*.3x \
+		$(1)/usr/share/man/man3
+
+	rename "s/\\.3x/.3/" $(1)/usr/share/man/man3/*.3x
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,libncurses-dev))