Unable to compile calcurse on Ubuntu 18.04

[fi-do]

Version information:
calcurse 4.8.0
Ubuntu 18.04
gcc 7.5.0

Bug description:
I try to compile calcurse from the source code. In order to do that, I installed libncurses5. After the configuration step, when executing make, I get the following error:
In file included from calcurse.c:39:0: calcurse.h:49:2: error: #error "Missing ncurses header. Aborting..." #error "Missing ncurses header. Aborting..."
Checking with 'locate ncurses' I am able to find some related files at:

• /usr/include/ncursesw
• /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5
• /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5
• /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ncurses.pc
• ...

Reproduce:

download https://www.calcurse.org/files/calcurse-4.8.0.tar.gz
unpack calcurse-4.8.0.tar.gz
cd calcurse-4.8.0
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
./configure
make

Expected Behavior:
Compile source code

Screenshots:
Configure Output
Make Output

Thanks in advance,
fi-do

[lfos]

Have you tried installing libncurses5-dev?

[pmodin]

I also got a ncurses error when trying to build (Ubuntu, plus debian and arch via docker), but after reverting bea7349 and wondering why it worked I found out that I was missing autoconf-archive 🤦

$ ./configure
[...]
0.889 ./configure: line 8354: AX_WITH_CURSES: command not found
0.889 configure: error: Either ncurses or ncursesw library is required to build calcurse!

Installing autoconf-archive made everything compile just fine.