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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
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
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Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> skribis:

>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:59 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org=
> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>=20
>> Guile-NCurses 1.6 has one test failure when built against NCurses 6.0:
>>=20
>
>> FAIL: getwin/putwin: putwin
>> ERROR: getwin/putwin: getwin - arguments: ((srfi-34 #<condition=20
>> &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=E2=80=99.