Hmph, I just tried installing the most recent update of the the ncurses
RPM from Redhat, and now lxdialog won't work any more when trying to do
a menuconfig (gives a core dump). Yes, I recompiled, but that doesn't
appear to be a problem anyway (version compiled with the the -9 version
works fine when the -8 libraries are installed). ncurses appears to work
OK in most other applications I've tried.
I'm running 2.1.99, though I doubt that matters.
I haven't yet checked to see what's different between the two.