Respect flags and use pkg-config.
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-CC = gcc
-MAKE = make
-LDFLAGS = -lncurses
+LIBS := $(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --libs ncurses) $(LIBS)
 OBJFILES = main.o draw.o erwin.o network.o scores.o
@@ -6,3 +4,3 @@
 LOCALEPATH = /usr/local/share/locale
-CFLAGS = -Wall -O2 -DPREFIX="\"$(PREFIX)\"" 
+CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -Wall -DPREFIX="\"$(PREFIX)\"" -DLOCALEPATH="\"$(LOCALEPATH)\"" $(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags ncurses) $(CPPFLAGS)
 VERSION = `grep " VERSION" version.h | sed s/\"//g | sed s/\#define\ VERSION\ //`
@@ -27,3 +25,3 @@
 tornado: $(OBJFILES)
-	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJFILES) -o tornado
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJFILES) -o tornado $(LIBS)