new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+From e7bbf72544ab62db9c92bfe7bd1155227e78c621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andrew Borodin <aborodin@vmail.ru>
+Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:46:53 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Ticket #4200: fix FTBFS with ncurses build with
+ --disable-widec.
+
+Upstream-Status: Accepted [https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/commit/e7bbf72544]
+Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin <aborodin@vmail.ru>
+---
+ lib/tty/tty-ncurses.c | 8 ++++++++
+ lib/tty/tty-ncurses.h | 5 +++++
+ lib/tty/tty-slang.h | 2 ++
+ src/filemanager/boxes.c | 2 ++
+ 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.c b/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.c
+index f619c0a7bf31..13058a624208 100644
+--- a/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.c
++++ b/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.c
+@@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ tty_fill_region (int y, int x, int rows, int cols, unsigned char ch)
+ void
+ tty_colorize_area (int y, int x, int rows, int cols, int color)
+ {
++#ifdef ENABLE_SHADOWS
+ cchar_t *ctext;
+ wchar_t wch[10]; /* TODO not sure if the length is correct */
+ attr_t attrs;
+@@ -585,6 +586,13 @@ tty_colorize_area (int y, int x, int rows, int cols, int color)
+ }
+
+ g_free (ctext);
++#else
++ (void) y;
++ (void) x;
++ (void) rows;
++ (void) cols;
++ (void) color;
++#endif /* ENABLE_SHADOWS */
+ }
+
+ /* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+diff --git a/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.h b/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.h
+index d75df9533ab9..8feb17ccd045 100644
+--- a/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.h
++++ b/lib/tty/tty-ncurses.h
+@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
+ #define NCURSES_CONST const
+ #endif
+
++/* do not draw shadows if NCurses is built with --disable-widec */
++#if defined(NCURSES_WIDECHAR) && NCURSES_WIDECHAR
++#define ENABLE_SHADOWS 1
++#endif
++
+ /*** typedefs(not structures) and defined constants **********************************************/
+
+ /*** enums ***************************************************************************************/
+diff --git a/lib/tty/tty-slang.h b/lib/tty/tty-slang.h
+index 5b12c6512853..eeaade388af4 100644
+--- a/lib/tty/tty-slang.h
++++ b/lib/tty/tty-slang.h
+@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
+ #define COLS SLtt_Screen_Cols
+ #define LINES SLtt_Screen_Rows
+
++#define ENABLE_SHADOWS 1
++
+ /*** enums ***************************************************************************************/
+
+ enum
+diff --git a/src/filemanager/boxes.c b/src/filemanager/boxes.c
+index 3eb525be4a9b..98df5ff2ed9a 100644
+--- a/src/filemanager/boxes.c
++++ b/src/filemanager/boxes.c
+@@ -280,7 +280,9 @@ appearance_box_callback (Widget * w, Widget * sender, widget_msg_t msg, int parm
+ switch (msg)
+ {
+ case MSG_INIT:
++#ifdef ENABLE_SHADOWS
+ if (!tty_use_colors ())
++#endif
+ {
+ Widget *shadow;
+
+--
+2.34.1
+
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "ncurses-terminfo"
SRC_URI = "http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
file://0001-mc-replace-perl-w-with-use-warnings.patch \
file://nomandate.patch \
+ file://0001-Ticket-4200-fix-FTBFS-with-ncurses-build-with-disabl.patch \
"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2f52dd9c75c20d8eac7701bd3a8c6c125aaf8cdd9cf12b78ca50a0102b543407"
@@ -27,7 +28,9 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
PACKAGECONFIG[smb] = "--enable-vfs-smb,--disable-vfs-smb,samba,"
PACKAGECONFIG[sftp] = "--enable-vfs-sftp,--disable-vfs-sftp,libssh2,"
-CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = ' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1 '
+# enable NCURSES_WIDECHAR=1 only if ENABLE_WIDEC has not been explicitly disabled (e.g. by the distro config).
+# When compiling against the ncurses library, NCURSES_WIDECHAR needs to explicitly set to 0 in this case.
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = "${@' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1' if bb.utils.to_boolean((d.getVar('ENABLE_WIDEC') or 'True')) else ' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=0'}"
EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-screen=ncurses --without-gpm-mouse --without-x --disable-configure-args"
EXTRANATIVEPATH += "file-native"