diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses.xml b/chapter06/ncurses.xml
index 83499f2eb..629a07f79 100644
--- a/chapter06/ncurses.xml
+++ b/chapter06/ncurses.xml
@@ -59,20 +59,30 @@ popd</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr             \
-            --host=$LFS_TGT           \
-            --build=$(./config.guess) \
-            --mandir=/usr/share/man   \
-            --with-shared             \
-            --without-debug           \
-            --without-ada             \
-            --without-normal          \
-            --enable-widec            \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                \
+            --host=$LFS_TGT              \
+            --build=$(./config.guess)    \
+            --mandir=/usr/share/man      \
+            --with-manpage-format=normal \
+            --with-shared                \
+            --without-debug              \
+            --without-ada                \
+            --without-normal             \
+            --enable-widec               \
             --enable-pc-files</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--with-manpage-format=normal</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This prevents Ncurses installing compressed manual
+          pages, which may happen if the host distribution itself
+          has compressed manual pages.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--without-ada</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 92a0e9705..b0cb1e91f 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "20200612-cross2">
+<!ENTITY version         "20200613-cross2">
 <!ENTITY short-version   "svn">  <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; 
                                       Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
 <!ENTITY generic-version "cross-chap5"> <!-- Use "development"  or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
-<!ENTITY versiond        "20200612-cross2-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20200613-cross2-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
-<!ENTITY generic-versiond "20200612-cross2-systemd"> 
+<!ENTITY generic-versiond "20200613-cross2-systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "June 12th, 2020">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "June 13th, 2020">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2020"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->