Cannot install on OpenSuse 13.1

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Installation fails using either npm install curses or git clone method.

The error snip is as follows:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tquinn/_t/inst/node_curses/curses/deps/ncurses-5.7/test'
gcc -I../test -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -fPIC  --param max-inline-insns-single=1200  -c ../test/background.c -o ../objects/background.o
gcc -fPIC  --param max-inline-insns-single=1200  -o background ../objects/background.o  -I../test -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -fPIC  --param max-inline-insns-single=1200  `echo "-static -L../lib -lformtw -lmenutw -lpaneltw -lncursestw  -dynamic  -lpthread " | sed -e 's/-lform.*-lpanel[^ ]*//'` -lutil  -lm
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lutil
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [background] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tquinn/_t/inst/node_curses/curses/deps/ncurses-5.7/test'
make: *** [all] Error 2
ERROR: build failed (3)
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0