non-standard location ncurses

[dhidas]

Hi,

I have a non-standard location for ncurses include and lib. The compiler seems to pick up the header and libs fine via environment, but the configure script doesn't seem to see the header files:
checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... no
checking for working ncursesw.h... no
checking for working ncurses.h... no
configure: WARNING: could not find a working ncursesw/curses.h, ncursesw.h or ncurses.h
configure: error: requires an X/Open-compatible Curses library with color

Is there an environment variable or flag that I might be missing for it to pick them up in a non-standard place?

Thank you in advance for any help.

[Justinzobel]

Same issue here. I tried --includedir and --oldincludedir but they seem to be ignored by ./configure