GNU bug report logs - #21677
Guile-NCurses 1.6 test failure with ncurses 6.0

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mike Gran <spk121 <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 21677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "bug-guile-ncurses <at> gnu.org" <bug-guile-ncurses <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#21677: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Guile-NCurses test failure when built against	NCurses 6.0
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:11:50 +0200

Mike Gran <spk121 <at> yahoo.com> skribis:

>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> 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’.
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