diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index a5f5ca6fa..b7d691a41 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+*) 2003-09-23 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
+
+ - Alejandro Mery: ncurses: +x *.so and libcurses.a (rewritten)
+
 *) 2003-09-21 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
  - fixed findutils to install xargs in /bin and create a /usr/bin symlink
diff --git a/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.conf b/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.conf
index 29a79736b..2c1e89f5f 100644
--- a/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.conf
+++ b/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.conf
@@ -42,5 +42,8 @@ else
 		ln -svf libncurses.a $libdir/libtermcap.a; \
 		ln -svf libncurses.so $libdir/libtermcap.so"
 fi
-hook_add postmake 7 "ln -svf libncurses.so $libdir/libcurses.so"
+hook_add postmake 7 "\
+	ln -svf libncurses.so $libdir/libcurses.so; \
+	ln -svf libncurses.a $libdir/libcurses.a"
 
+var_append makeinstopt ' ' "'INSTALL_LIB=\$(INSTALL) -m 755'"