diff --git a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
index 1b93703..2dad18b 100644
--- a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
 DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" \
+		LIBS="-lncurses ${LIBS}"
+}
+
 src_test() {
 	local shell="${S}/oksh"