[Bug-guile-ncurses] Re: GNU guile-ncurses v1.2 released

[Mike Gran]

> From:Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
> Hi Mike,
> 

[...]
> I’ve packaged it in Nixpkgs:
> 
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/guile_ncurses
> 
> And against Guile 1.9:
> 
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/guile2test/guile_ncurses
> 

Cool.

> I disabled the tests because I was getting 6 failures:

[...]

> 
> (With Guile 1.8.8, glibc 2.12.1, ncurses 5.7, on x86_64.)
> 
> Since the build is performed non-interactively in a chroot, I defined
> “TERM=xterm” so that the test would actually run (otherwise they all
> fail with “Error opening terminal: unknown.”.)  That is probably not the
> best idea and may explain some of the failures.
> 
> How do you recommend to run the tests?

To properly fix this, I think I should include a test-specific
terminfo file in the distro and then set TERM and TERMINFO
in the Makefile.am.

> 
> Besides, it’d be nice if ‘guile-ncurses-shell’ would add $guilesitedir
> to %load-path.

OK.

Thanks,
Mike