The wide test files are missing from the tarball, so ignore them. Reported at . --- guile-ncurses-1.4/test/Makefile.in 2013-04-27 17:55:19.000000000 +0200 +++ guile-ncurses-1.4/test/Makefile.in 2014-06-16 21:39:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -258,8 +258,7 @@ m011_menu_options.test slk_001_init.test slk_003_init.test slk_004_init.test slk_005_demo.test \ slk_006_attributes.test -WIDETESTS = r037_border_set.test r038_get_wch.test r039_get_wstr.test \ -r040_term_attrs.test +WIDETESTS = TESTS = $(NOTERMTESTS) $(am__append_1) $(am__append_2) EXTRA_DIST = $(TESTLIB) $(TESTS)