Re: [ANN] Guile-SSH 0.7.0 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Artyom Poptsov <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hi Ludovic.
>
>> There are still test failures though, so I’m attaching the logs again.
>> I’m afraid it’s not that helpful though.   :-/
>
> Thanks for the logs.  I think at least some of the failures may be
> related to problems with GCrypt support in libssh 0.6.3.  Did you
> compile libssh with GCrypt enabled?

Yes:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/ssh.scm#n43>.

> To show that there is some progress: I sent a patch [1] to libssh
> mailing list that fixes a problem with GCrypt support.  Developers have
> not responded yet, so I'd rather wait for their opinions on the patch.

OK, cool.

> But the testing shows that when libssh 0.6.3 compiled with the patch
> applied Guile-SSH passes almost all the tests, except tests from
> `tests/key.scm' that involve ECDSA keys.  And as far as I can see libssh
> 0.6.3 w/ GCrypt doesn't support ECDSA keys yet.  But that's still under
> investigation.

I think one would need to use libgcrypt 1.6 for that, but libssh 0.6.3
doesn’t build with 1.6.

Thanks,
Ludo’.