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ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-255.tgz

sed -i '/v0/,+1s/new:/new:kb=^?:/' termcap &&
echo -e '\tkbs=\\177,' >>terminfo &&
TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var \
    --enable-luit --enable-wide-chars \
    --with-app-defaults=/usr/share/X11/app-defaults &&
make

make install &&
make install-ti

FAQs

I had problems editing text input fields in ncurses uis like the Linux kernel's (make menuconfig)

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_xmodmap (You have to restart X afterwards)