--- /var/db/portage/gentoo/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230401.ebuild	2023-05-13 10:04:39.442342312 +0200
+++ /var/db/portage/local/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230401.ebuild	2023-05-13 10:31:51.314898367 +0200
@@ -149,11 +149,6 @@
 	# bug #214642
 	BUILD_CPPFLAGS+=" -D_GNU_SOURCE"
 
-	# bug #852665
-	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-cygwin* ]]; then
-		BUILD_CPPFLAGS+=" -DBUILDING_NCURSES"
-	fi
-
 	# Build the various variants of ncurses -- narrow, wide, and threaded. #510440
 	# Order matters here -- we want unicode/thread versions to come last so that the
 	# binaries in /usr/bin support both wide and narrow.
@@ -182,7 +177,7 @@
 		echo "int main() {}" | \
 			$(tc-getCC) -o x -x c - ${lbuildflags} -pipe >& /dev/null \
 			|| lbuildflags="${dbuildflags}"
-
+		lbuildflags=""
 		# We can't re-use the multilib BUILD_DIR because we run outside of it.
 		BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}" \
 		CC=${BUILD_CC} \
@@ -299,7 +294,17 @@
 src_compile() {
 	# See comments in src_configure.
 	if ! has_version -b "~sys-libs/${P}:0" ; then
-		BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}" do_compile cross -C progs tic$(get_exeext)
+		# We could possibly merge these two branches but opting to be
+		# conservative when merging some of the Prefix changes.
+
+		if [[ ${CHOST} == *-cygwin* ]] && ! multilib_is_native_abi ; then
+			# We make 'tic$(x)' here, for Cygwin having x=".exe".
+			BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}" \
+				 do_compile cross -C progs all PROGS='tic$(x)'
+		else
+			BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}" \
+				 do_compile cross -C progs tic
+		fi
 	fi
 
 	multilib-minimal_src_compile