diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 3954ac4b0..947aee135 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Ncurses: Added
+description for the --without-ada configure switch.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Gawk: Added the
 testsuite</para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/chapter05/ncurses-inst.xml b/chapter05/ncurses-inst.xml
index 74cf6237b..36be23b72 100644
--- a/chapter05/ncurses-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter05/ncurses-inst.xml
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ deprecated headers.</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--without-debug --without-ada</userinput></screen></para>
 
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--without-ada</userinput>: This tells ncurses not
+to build it's Ada bindings, even if an Ada compiler is installed on the host.
+This must be done because once we enter the chroot, Ada will no longer be
+available.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
 <para>Compile the programs and libraries:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>make </userinput></screen></para>