rn problems with 5.2 curses?

[David St.Pierre]

After installing rn, I noticed that the Makefile referenced -ltermlib
instead of -lcurses. Looking at Configure, I saw that it looked for
termlib files before terminfo ones. Since I'd rather migrate most
software over to curses, I changed Configure and ran make.

And lost all of my terminal motion characters.

I subsequently re-edited the Makefile, changing -lcurses back to 
-ltermlib, and everything works OK. There's something that isn't
porting very cleanly - I was able to re-compile vnews changing
-ltermlib to -lcurses without any side effects.

Has anyone out there experienced the same problem and come up with a fix?