we'll hijack the freebsd* case that comes later

--- ncurses-5.6/aclocal.m4
+++ ncurses-5.6/aclocal.m4
@@ -3806,7 +3806,7 @@
 		MK_SHARED_LIB='${CC} -shared -rdata_shared -soname `basename $[@]` -o $[@]'
 		cf_cv_rm_so_locs=yes
 		;;
-	linux*|gnu*|k*bsd*-gnu)
+	linux*|gnu*|k*bsd*-gnu|freebsd*|dragonfly*)
 		if test "$DFT_LWR_MODEL" = "shared" ; then
 			LOCAL_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,\$(LOCAL_LIBDIR)"
 			LOCAL_LDFLAGS2="$LOCAL_LDFLAGS"
--- ncurses-5.6/configure
+++ ncurses-5.6/configure
@@ -3806,7 +3806,7 @@
 		MK_SHARED_LIB='${CC} -shared -rdata_shared -soname `basename $@` -o $@'
 		cf_cv_rm_so_locs=yes
 		;;
-	linux*|gnu*|k*bsd*-gnu)
+	linux*|gnu*|k*bsd*-gnu|freebsd*|dragonfly*)
 		if test "$DFT_LWR_MODEL" = "shared" ; then
 			LOCAL_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,\$(LOCAL_LIBDIR)"
 			LOCAL_LDFLAGS2="$LOCAL_LDFLAGS"