ninja IRC client

I'm having a problem when compiling ninja IRC client. (http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/5b/ninja-1.5.9pre14.tar.gz) It compiles fine, but segfaults upon executing. When strace'ing the program, it says that it is using

/lib64/libtinfo.so.6

, but here's the problem, i'm using openSUSE Leap (version 15.4) and YaST uses that shared library. When I try compiling/installing a newer version of libtinfo (ncurses), it breaks YaST, to the point where it will not work. I had to

-s

the old version of

. So, my question is this: Can I force ninja to use a different version of

? I _was_ using Debian Bullseye before, and I never came upon this problem...