diff --git a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
index 4b35bc1..70ec241 100644
--- a/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/oksh/oksh-7.9.ebuild
@@ -15,6 +15,30 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 
 src_configure() {
+	cat > conftest.c <<-EOF
+		#include <term.h>
+		#include <ncurses.h>
+		int main(void) { setupterm(NULL, 0, NULL); return 0; }
+	EOF
+
+	echo "=== testing -lcurses ==="
+	if ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o conftest.o -c conftest.c &&
+		${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o conftest conftest.o -lcurses
+	then
+		echo "=== -lcurses WORKS ==="
+	else
+		echo "=== -lcurses FAILED ==="
+	fi
+
+	echo "=== testing -lncurses ==="
+	if ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o conftest.o -c conftest.c &&
+		${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o conftest conftest.o -lncurses
+	then
+		echo "=== -lncurses WORKS ==="
+	else
+		echo "=== -lncurses FAILED ==="
+	fi
+
 	econf --enable-curses
 }