diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
index 1e139a36e0..be7d387c9c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://ncurses/base/version.c;beginline=1;endline=27;md5=cbc
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses-native"
 DEPENDS_virtclass-native = ""
-INC_PR = "r0"
+INC_PR = "r1"
 
-inherit autotools binconfig
+inherit autotools binconfig multilib_header
 
 # Upstream has useful patches at times at ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/ncurses/ncurses-${PV}.tar.gz"
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ do_configure() {
                         --enable-sigwinch \
                         --enable-pc-files \
                         --disable-rpath-hack \
+                        --with-manpage-format=normal \
                         "$@"
                 cd ..
         done
@@ -161,6 +162,8 @@ do_install() {
         f=${D}${libdir}/libtermcap.so
         echo '/* GNU ld script */' >$f
         echo 'INPUT(AS_NEEDED(-ltinfo))' >>$f
+
+	oe_multilib_header curses.h
 }
 
 python populate_packages_prepend () {