diff --git a/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.desc b/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.desc
index a91300ed8..82c4eda3e 100644
--- a/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.desc
+++ b/package/base/ncurses/ncurses.desc
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
 [V] 5.3
-[P] X -?-3-----9 104.000
+[P] X -X-3-----9 104.000
 
 [D] 3372452585 ncurses-5.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/
 [D] 430723242 termtypes.ti.gz http://catb.org/~esr/terminfo/
diff --git a/package/base/ncurses/tic-shlibs-run.patch.cross b/package/base/ncurses/tic-shlibs-run.patch.cross
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f92a6c4a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/ncurses/tic-shlibs-run.patch.cross
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- ./misc/run_tic.in.orig	2004-09-21 00:08:05.106683264 +0200
++++ ./misc/run_tic.in	2004-09-21 00:08:35.937996192 +0200
+@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@
+ *) PATH=../progs:${DESTDIR}$bindir:$PATH ;;
+ esac
+ export PATH
++SHLIB=$srcdir/shlib
++else
++# Cross-compiling, so don't set PATH or run shlib.
++SHLIB=
+ fi
+ 
+ #
+@@ -111,7 +115,7 @@
+ 	problems for older ncurses applications.
+ 
+ EOF
+-if ( $srcdir/shlib tic$suffix -s -o $TERMINFO $source )
++if ( $SHLIB tic$suffix -s -o $TERMINFO $source )
+ then
+ 	echo '** built new '$TERMINFO
+ else