pythoncapi
diff --git a/‎Include/py_curses.h‎
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diff --git a/‎Misc/NEWS‎
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@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@
 #ifdef	_BSD_WCHAR_T_DEFINED_
 #define _WCHAR_T
 #endif
-#endif
+
+/* the following define is necessary for OS X 10.6; without it, the
+   Apple-supplied ncurses.h sets NCURSES_OPAQUE to 1, and then Python
+   can't get at the WINDOW flags field. */
+#define NCURSES_OPAQUE 0
+#endif /* __APPLE__ */
 
 #ifdef __FreeBSD__
 /*
 
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ Library
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
+
 - Fix a segfault that could be triggered by expat with specially formed input.
 
 - Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with