diff -ruN a/misc/gen-pkgconfig.in b/misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
--- a/misc/gen-pkgconfig.in	2021-08-07 23:36:33.000000000 +0200
+++ b/misc/gen-pkgconfig.in	2021-11-03 11:12:51.127160950 +0100
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 fi
 
 lib_flags=
-for opt in -L$libdir @EXTRA_PKG_LDFLAGS@ @LIBS@
+for opt in -L$libdir @LIBS@
 do
 	case $opt in
 	-l*) # LIBS is handled specially below
diff -ruN a/misc/ncurses-config.in b/misc/ncurses-config.in
--- a/misc/ncurses-config.in	2021-08-07 23:36:14.000000000 +0200
+++ b/misc/ncurses-config.in	2021-11-03 11:26:12.393533954 +0100
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 # There is no portable way to find the list of standard library directories.
 # Require a POSIX shell anyway, to keep this simple.
 lib_flags=
-for opt in -L$libdir @EXTRA_PKG_LDFLAGS@ $LIBS
+for opt in -L$libdir $LIBS
 do
 	case $opt in
 	-specs*) # ignore linker specs-files which were used to build library
