diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index a0bdd2a..33b8fe2 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-gcc -g -o cReddit main.c reddit.c jsmn.c -lncurses `curl-config --libs`
+gcc -g -o cReddit `curl-config --cflags` main.c reddit.c jsmn.c -lncurses `curl-config --libs`
diff --git a/reddit.h b/reddit.h
index 02a0a19..a626047 100644
--- a/reddit.h
+++ b/reddit.h
@@ -6,9 +6,14 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include "jsmn.h"
 #include <curl/curl.h>
- 
-#define REDDIT_URL_BASE_LENGTH 21 
- 
+
+/* REDDIT_URL_BASE_LENGTH captures the base URL, the trailing '/' after a
+ * subreddit and the ".json" suffix. Excluding the subreddit and sorting,
+ * it looks like the following: http://reddit.com/.json
+ * This is currently defined to be 23 bytes, we add 1 more for '\0'
+ * termination. */
+#define REDDIT_URL_BASE_LENGTH 24
+
 struct MemoryStruct {
   	char *memory;
   	size_t size;