diff --git a/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile b/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile
index 73254be37bbc..bc47f74e650f 100644
--- a/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ COMMENT=	Library for terminal-independent, full-screen output (development versi
 
 CONFLICTS=	ncurses-[0-9]*
 
-PATCHES=	20110305
+PATCHES=	20110409 20110416 20110423 20110430 20110507
 
-RELEASE=	5.8
+RELEASE=	5.9
 
 .for i in ${PATCHES}
 PATCHFILES+=	${PORTNAME}-${RELEASE}-${i}.patch.gz:DEFAULT,local
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ post-configure:
 .endif
 .for d in test c++
 .if !defined(WITHOUT_WIDEC)
-	${CP} ${WRKSRC}/${d}/* ${WIDEC_WRKSRC}/${d}/
+	${CP} -R ${WRKSRC}/${d}/* ${WIDEC_WRKSRC}/${d}/
 .endif
-	${CP} ${WRKSRC}/${d}/* ${NOWIDEC_WRKSRC}/${d}/
+	${CP} -R ${WRKSRC}/${d}/* ${NOWIDEC_WRKSRC}/${d}/
 .endfor
 
 post-build:
diff --git a/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile.man b/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile.man
index 8703ce0f1e7f..3db7eba44eca 100644
--- a/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile.man
+++ b/devel/ncurses-devel/Makefile.man
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ MAN1=	\
 	tset.1
 MLINKS+=\
 	adacursesw-config.1 adacurses-config.1 \
+	adacursesw-config.1 adacurses.1 \
 	tset.1 reset.1
 
 .if !defined(WITHOUT_WIDEC)
diff --git a/devel/ncurses-devel/distinfo b/devel/ncurses-devel/distinfo
index 597a7a6e1584..3cd7ed8f66e2 100644
--- a/devel/ncurses-devel/distinfo
+++ b/devel/ncurses-devel/distinfo
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.8.tar.gz) = 51597f89fd53aa990321954e33e5b4869c4a5ee6137bfa800f98f91d4b6b54b5
-SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.8.tar.gz) = 2832852
-SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.8-20110305.patch.gz) = 8b9ebd55fb0b0e84adb68db9c6077bf559d8cc64881430b30442a5e8ced1a2a6
-SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.8-20110305.patch.gz) = 4160
+SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz) = 9046298fb440324c9d4135ecea7879ffed8546dd1b58e59430ea07a4633f563b
+SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz) = 2826473
+SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110409.patch.gz) = 5f1ffce6112a509d0ee99b8be8d56fbe4fe73a772227354fc4f4d2823e2de47c
+SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110409.patch.gz) = 50460
+SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110416.patch.gz) = aa2d7a8be6dc8a08237a8717493f727efcc06ed777374a06fe573fc2be8e035d
+SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110416.patch.gz) = 6419
+SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110423.patch.gz) = 63c9f2d689a7f075a9083672389b8f543735276833ee34d5ce9c77afb1934289
+SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110423.patch.gz) = 49007
+SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110430.patch.gz) = 9510b37c4a31a7da9cfb4c7bff47bdd9cc9deb952b315ecb99686e5ba6d1d1e5
+SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110430.patch.gz) = 2947
+SHA256 (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110507.patch.gz) = 424e239e700aa1cfde89908a3705f9ec9cbd805c7041f8af183390a285869e8f
+SIZE (ncurses/ncurses-5.9-20110507.patch.gz) = 3913