Subject: bug#21677: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Guile-NCurses test failure when built against NCurses 6.0

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:11:50 +0200

Mike Gran <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> 
>> Guile-NCurses 1.6 has one test failure when built against NCurses 6.0:
>> 
>
>> FAIL: getwin/putwin: putwin
>> ERROR: getwin/putwin: getwin - arguments: ((srfi-34 #<condition 
>> &curses-wrong-type-arg-error [arg: #f expected-type: window] e7d210>))
>
>> Any ideas?
>
> getwin/putwin save and restore a representation of a screen to a file.
> That file format has changed for ncurses 6.  Their binding is
> probably the least robust of the many functions in guile-ncurses.
>
> I'll see what I can do with regards to a fix.

OK.

Any suggestions on how to fix it or work around it in Guix?  Or maybe we
should just wait for whatever fix you come up with?

Thanks!

Ludo’.