diff --git a/support/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh b/support/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 4789b72329..3ce0a23349
--- a/support/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
+++ b/support/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ ldflags()
 # Where is ncurses.h?
 ccflags()
 {
-	if [ -f /usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h ]; then
+	if pkg-config --cflags ncursesw 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1'
+	elif pkg-config --cflags ncurses 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"'
+	elif [ -f /usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h ]; then
 		echo '-I/usr/include/ncursesw -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"'
 		echo ' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1'
 	elif [ -f /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h ]; then
diff --git a/support/kconfig/patches/17-kconfig-lxdialog-get-ncurses-CFLAGS-with-pkg-config.patch b/support/kconfig/patches/17-kconfig-lxdialog-get-ncurses-CFLAGS-with-pkg-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1eb48ef974
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/kconfig/patches/17-kconfig-lxdialog-get-ncurses-CFLAGS-with-pkg-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+From be8af2d54a66911693eddc556e4f7a866670082b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Forsman?= <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:57:50 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] kconfig/lxdialog: get ncurses CFLAGS with pkg-config
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+This makes "make menuconfig" also work on systems where ncurses is not
+installed in a standard location (such as on NixOS).
+
+This patch changes ccflags() so that it tries pkg-config first, and only
+if pkg-config fails does it go back to the fallback/manual checks. This
+is the same algorithm that ldflags() already uses.
+
+Signed-off-by: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
+---
+[This patch is already applied upstream (is part of linux v3.18):
+https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=be8af2d54a66911693eddc556e4f7a866670082b
+
+I'm adding this instead of doing a full upstream kconfig sync because
+there was a conflict in one of the Buildroot kconfig patches (against
+linux 3.18-rc1), which I was unable to resolve. Just drop this patch next time
+Buildroot kconfig is synced against upstream.
+]
+
+ scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh | 6 +++++-
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
+index 9d2a4c5..5075ebf 100755
+--- a/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
++++ b/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
+@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ ldflags()
+ # Where is ncurses.h?
+ ccflags()
+ {
+-	if [ -f /usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h ]; then
++	if pkg-config --cflags ncursesw 2>/dev/null; then
++		echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1'
++	elif pkg-config --cflags ncurses 2>/dev/null; then
++		echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"'
++	elif [ -f /usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h ]; then
+ 		echo '-I/usr/include/ncursesw -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"'
+ 		echo ' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1'
+ 	elif [ -f /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h ]; then
+-- 
+2.1.3
+
diff --git a/support/kconfig/patches/series b/support/kconfig/patches/series
index 9154d83727..e25375ea28 100644
--- a/support/kconfig/patches/series
+++ b/support/kconfig/patches/series
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 14-support-out-of-tree-config.patch
 15-fix-qconf-moc-rule.patch
 16-fix-space-to-de-select-options.patch
+17-kconfig-lxdialog-get-ncurses-CFLAGS-with-pkg-config.patch