Re: half-package of autossh

[Eric Bavier]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:05:19 -0800
Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello all!  I got autossh packaged, at least in theory.  I use this all
> the time when on Debian.
> 
> And yet, though the binary appears on my profile, it seems to do nothing
> in Guix.  I'm not sure why this is.
> 
> I should be able to do:
> 
>   autossh fencepost.gnu.org
> 
> and it should work, but instead I just see the help text printed.
> 
> Any ideas?  Or if anyone wanting to finish a mysteriously busted
> package, have at it.
> 

My guess is this snippet in autossh.c:

> #ifndef SSH_PATH
> #  define SSH_PATH "/usr/bin/ssh"
> #endif

Maybe just need to (string-append "-DSSH_PATH=" (assoc-ref
%build-inputs "openssh")) in #:make-flags?

`~Eric