Upstream decided to go differently: libsmartcols is capable to switch to ASCII, and curses applications will use it. The code contained a lot of bugs: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=4a423fb963d4cd87e9e5c75c77e1ac5d1ea2417f https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=9907a95a7dafd01dd85a44abf8405096a76ae4e5 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=4cb6fea5ccd7ce5e258c52160de167dd7aa24494 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=92312207e718bccce377dd24f3a1ad1720768354 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=c191740c285a71b8ab5bbf4a429a14d0459b2d10 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=e19916c89d4137dc8497cbe49c9a6cccd11c7e45 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=324e52a5cf5a7016807c81e8c9d668aa8fad8b34 This is not our way to go. We should simply disable --enable-ncurses.