From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: "21677@debbugs.gnu.org" <21677@debbugs.gnu.org>,
"bug-guile-ncurses@gnu.org" <bug-guile-ncurses@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#21677: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Guile-NCurses test failure when built against NCurses 6.0
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:40:01 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1683863730.3263018.1444758001236.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87612asnft.fsf@gnu.org>
> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:12 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> skribis:
>
>>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès
> <ludo@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?
You could try adding ac_cv_func_fopencookie=no to the configure call.
If that works, that should be a legit fix.
Otherwise, I'll need a couple of days.
Or you could just remove the failing test curses_034_util.test from
test/Makefile.am. But that would be cheating. ;-)
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-13 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-13 8:54 bug#21677: Guile-NCurses 1.6 test failure with ncurses 6.0 Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 8:59 ` bug#21677: Guile-NCurses test failure when built against NCurses 6.0 Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 17:03 ` bug#21677: [Bug-guile-ncurses] " Mike Gran
2015-10-13 17:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 17:40 ` Mike Gran [this message]
2015-10-17 16:50 ` Mike Gran
2015-10-18 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-03 23:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
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