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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
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)
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:12 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org=
> wrote:
> > Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> skribis:
>=20
>>>  On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:59 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s=20
> <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>  > Hello,
>>>=20
>>>  Guile-NCurses 1.6 has one test failure when built against NCurses 6.0:
>>>=20
>>=20
>>>  FAIL: getwin/putwin: putwin
>>>  ERROR: getwin/putwin: getwin - arguments: ((srfi-34 #<condition=20
>>>  &curses-wrong-type-arg-error [arg: #f expected-type: window]=20
> e7d210>))
>>=20
>>>  Any ideas?
>>=20
>>  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.
>>=20
>>  I'll see what I can do with regards to a fix.
>=20
> OK.
>=20
> 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=3Dno to the configure call.
If that works, that should be a legit fix.
=20
Otherwise, I'll need a couple of days.
=20
Or you could just remove the failing test curses_034_util.test from
test/Makefile.am.  But that would be cheating. ;-)

-Mike