Thanks Taylan, managed to get guile-ssh 0.6 installed. Re file transfer, I could cook up something of my own, unless someone already has working code?
Regards sidhu1f On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer < taylanbayi...@gmail.com> wrote: > R Sidhu <sidh...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I am interested in using guile-ssh for file transfer. Ran into the > > following issues: > > > > 1. 'git clone > > https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/releases/tag/v0.6.0' fails > > with: > > fatal: > > > https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh/releases/tag/v0.6.0/info/refs > > not valid: is this a git repository? > > Tags on GitHub can be downloaded as a .tar.gz or ZIP, but not cloned if > I'm not mistaken. > > > 2. INSTALL file suggests './configure' but its missing > > Short story: you need to run either ./autogen.sh, or if that doesn't > exist, run "autoreconf -fi" in the source directory. > > Long story: > > The ./configure script of a software package is what needs to be run on > the install-site to configure the package for the machine on which it > will be compiled and installed, but this ./configure script is rarely > written by hand, because it must be in the Bourne shell language to be > highly portable across Unix machines, which is a horrible language. > Most commonly, there is a configure.ac file which is written in the more > special-purpose and high-level autoconf language, and the software's > author runs the autoconf command to turn this into a ./configure script > before packaging and shipping the software. Therefore, when you fetch > the bare source code of a project, you usually have a configure.ac file > but not the ./configure script which it would generate. Often for > convenience there is a tiny ./autogen.sh script which runs autoconf and > maybe some other things for you (specifically automake), but nowadays > usually running "autoreconf -fi" is the only thing that needs to be > done. > > > 3. Installation instructions in doc/ directory (texinfo files) suggest > > 'autoreconf -if' which fails with: > > configure.ac:55: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE > > If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. > > See the Autoconf documentation. > > autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 > > I had this problem more than once already but keep forgetting what the > solution was. > > Do you have pkg-config installed? Do you have pkg-config files in > non-standard places, like $HOME/usr/lib/pkgconfig, or > $HOME/.guix-profile/lib/pkgconfig? If so you'll need to set > PKG_CONFIG_PATH to a colon-separated list of such directories. (Best to > 'export' that in ~/.profile or ~/.bash_login or so.) > > Do you have a recent version of GNU m4 installed? > > > 4. While initial steps seem clear (establishing session, > > authenticating and creating channel), not clear how to perform file > > transfer. > > I've never used guile-ssh so this is a shot in the dark: maybe a simple > read-char / write-char loop to read and write the bytes in a file one by > one? > > > Appreciate work done on guile-ssh so far. Look forward to help re > > above. > > > > Regards > > sidhu1f > > Hope someone can clear questions 3 and 4. > > Taylan >
