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 <
taylanbayirli@gmail.com> wrote:

> R Sidhu <sidhu1f@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
>