Created attachment 211426 [details] proposed patch See attached patch
There was some reason to force ports ncurses. I have forgotten what it was... I've run 3 days with the patch, no problems so far. It's okay by me to commit it.
A commit references this bug: Author: swills Date: Wed Feb 12 21:42:01 UTC 2020 New revision: 525972 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/525972 Log: audio/ncmpcpp: allow using base ncurses PR: 243940 Approved by: yamagi@yamagi.org (maintainer) Changes: head/audio/ncmpcpp/Makefile