diff --git a/gpm-weak-wgetch.patch b/gpm-weak-wgetch.patch
index 1999b34..c394956 100644
--- a/gpm-weak-wgetch.patch
+++ b/gpm-weak-wgetch.patch
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Index: src/lib/libcurses.c
 ===================================================================
 --- src/lib/libcurses.c.orig	2012-10-26 23:21:38.000000000 +0200
 +++ src/lib/libcurses.c	2013-04-16 12:26:55.834390599 +0200
-@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@
+@@ -41,7 +41,16 @@
  #endif /* HAVE_NCURSES_CURSES_H */
  #endif /* HAVE_NCURSES_H */
  
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ Index: src/lib/libcurses.c
 +/* If win != NULL, it must have been created by ncurses anyway.
 +   Avoid circular library dependencies.  */
 +#pragma weak wgetch
++#if defined(NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR) && (NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR > 5)
++#pragma weak _nc_stdscr
++#else
 +#pragma weak stdscr
++#endif
 +
 +#define GET(win) ((win && wgetch) ? wgetch(win) : getch())
  
diff --git a/gpm.changes b/gpm.changes
index c18209f..a6619a2 100644
--- a/gpm.changes
+++ b/gpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul  9 06:54:11 UTC 2015 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Make libgpm able to handle ncurses ABI 6
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 14 16:15:49 UTC 2015 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/gpm.spec b/gpm.spec
index 18eb6ae..aa9b938 100644
--- a/gpm.spec
+++ b/gpm.spec
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ cp %{S:2} %{S:3} %{S:4} .
 #export SUSE_ASNEEDED=0
 NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 autoreconf -fi
-CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DQUIET_LIBGPM" \
+CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DQUIET_LIBGPM -D_REENTRANT" \
 %configure --disable-static \
 	--sysconfdir=/etc/gpm
 make CC="%{__cc}" %{?_smp_mflags}