diff --git a/Android.mk b/Android.mk
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+LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
+include $(CLEAR_VARS)
+
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-c-files-under, ncurses/tty) 
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES += $(call all-c-files-under, ncurses/base) 
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(filter-out ncurses/base/lib_driver.c ncurses/base/sigaction.c, $(LOCAL_SRC_FILES))
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES += $(call all-c-files-under, ncurses/tinfo) 
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(filter-out ncurses/tinfo/doalloc.c ncurses/tinfo/make_keys.c ncurses/tinfo/tinfo_driver.c, $(LOCAL_SRC_FILES))
+
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES += ncurses/trace/lib_trace.c \
+		ncurses/trace/varargs.c \
+		ncurses/trace/visbuf.c \
+		ncurses/codes.c \
+		ncurses/comp_captab.c \
+		ncurses/expanded.c \
+		ncurses/fallback.c \
+		ncurses/lib_gen.c \
+		ncurses/lib_keyname.c \
+		ncurses/names.c \
+		ncurses/unctrl.c \
+
+LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(sort $(LOCAL_SRC_FILES))
+		
+LOCAL_CFLAGS := -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -U_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -U_POSIX_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -DNDEBUG 
+
+LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH) \
+		$(LOCAL_PATH)/include \
+		$(LOCAL_PATH)/ncurses \
+
+LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
+LOCAL_MODULE := libncurses
+
+include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)
+
+# Copy only basic terminal type definitions as ncurses-base in debian does by default.
+# http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ncurses.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;hb=HEAD#l140
+TERMINFO_FILES := \
+	a/ansi c/cons25 c/cygwin d/dumb E/Eterm E/Eterm-color h/hurd l/linux \
+	m/mach m/mach-bold m/mach-color p/pcansi r/rxvt r/rxvt-basic  \
+	s/screen s/screen-bce s/screen-s s/screen-w s/sun \
+	s/screen-256color s/screen-256color-bce v/vt100 v/vt102 \
+	v/vt220 v/vt52 x/xterm x/xterm-xfree86 x/xterm-color x/xterm-r5 x/xterm-r6 \
+	x/xterm-vt220 x/xterm-256color w/wsvt25 w/wsvt25m
+
+TERMINFO_SOURCE := $(LOCAL_PATH)/lib/terminfo/
+TERMINFO_TARGET := $(TARGET_OUT_ETC)/terminfo
+$(TERMINFO_TARGET): $(ACP)
+		@echo "copy terminfo to /etc/" 
+		@mkdir -p $@
+		@$(foreach TERMINFO_FILE,$(TERMINFO_FILES), \
+			mkdir -p $@/$(dir $(TERMINFO_FILE)); \
+			$(ACP) $(TERMINFO_SOURCE)/$(TERMINFO_FILE) $@/$(TERMINFO_FILE); \
+		)
+ALL_DEFAULT_INSTALLED_MODULES += $(TERMINFO_TARGET)