diff --git a/aspell-epmty_file.patch b/aspell-epmty_file.patch
index fe5039e..3b93b1c 100644
--- a/aspell-epmty_file.patch
+++ b/aspell-epmty_file.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---- common/convert.cpp
+--- common/convert.cpp.orig
 +++ common/convert.cpp
-@@ -813,6 +813,7 @@
+@@ -813,6 +813,7 @@ namespace acommon {
    {
      ToUniLookup lookup;
      void decode(const char * in, int size, FilterCharVector & out) const {
@@ -8,3 +8,39 @@
        const char * stop = in + size; // this is OK even if size == -1
        while (*in && in != stop) {
          out.append(from_utf8(in, stop));
+--- Makefile.am.orig
++++ Makefile.am
+@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ lib_LTLIBRARIES = libaspell.la
+ 
+ if PSPELL_COMPATIBILITY
+ lib_LTLIBRARIES += libpspell.la
++libpspell_la_CXXFLAGS = -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
+ endif
+ 
++libaspell_la_CXXFLAGS = -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
+ libaspell_la_SOURCES =\
+   common/cache.cpp\
+   common/string.cpp\
+@@ -194,7 +196,7 @@ libaspell_la_SOURCES +=\
+ else # not COMPILE_IN_FILTERS
+ 
+ dynamic_optfiles += ${optfiles}
+-filter_ldflags = -module -avoid-version
++filter_ldflags = -avoid-version -module -shared -export-dynamic
+ 
+ ### Add name of filter library containing your filter. Name always
+ ### must look like lib<filtername>-filter.la see development manual
+--- lib5/Makefile.am.orig
++++ lib5/Makefile.am
+@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+-
++AM_CXXFLAGS = -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
+ if INCREMENTED_SONAME
+ 
+ lib_LTLIBRARIES = libaspell.la
+ libaspell_la_SOURCES = aspell-dummy.cpp
+-libaspell_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 16:0:1
++libaspell_la_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info 16:0:1
+ libaspell_la_LIBADD = ../libaspell.la
+ 
+ if PSPELL_COMPATIBILITY
diff --git a/aspell.changes b/aspell.changes
index 6e52831..6a076ad 100644
--- a/aspell.changes
+++ b/aspell.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 24 21:06:58 UTC 2012 - crrodriguez@opensuse.org
+
+- Build C++ code with -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
+- Fix ncurses linkage.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan 28 21:01:20 UTC 2012 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/aspell.spec b/aspell.spec
index 64c0792..1577abc 100644
--- a/aspell.spec
+++ b/aspell.spec
@@ -127,9 +127,13 @@ This package contains the pspell compatibility library.
 %patch2
 
 %build
+autoreconf -fiv
+export CXXFLAGS="%optflags `ncursesw6-config --cflags`"
+#this is an ugly kludge , don't look :-)
+export LDFLAGS="`ncursesw6-config --libs`"
 %configure \
-%if %suse_version > 1210
- --enable-curses="-lncursesw -ltinfo" \
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1210
+    --enable-curses="-lncursesw" \
 %endif
  --disable-rpath
 
@@ -141,11 +145,10 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %else
 make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install
 %endif
-
 # Links for compatibility reasons (ispell and spell)
 ln -s %{_libdir}/aspell-0.60/ispell %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
 ln -s %{_libdir}/aspell-0.60/spell %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
-
+find %{buildroot} -name "*.la" -type f -print -delete
 %fdupes -s %{buildroot}
 
 %find_lang %{name}
@@ -189,8 +192,6 @@ ln -s %{_libdir}/aspell-0.60/spell %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
 %{_bindir}/pspell-config
 %{_includedir}/pspell/
 %{_includedir}/*.h
-%{_libdir}/libaspell.la
-%{_libdir}/libpspell.la
 %{_libdir}/libaspell.so
 %{_libdir}/libpspell.so
 %doc %{_infodir}/%{name}-dev.info%{ext_info}