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-rw-r--r--guix/gexp.scm6
-rw-r--r--tests/gexp.scm19
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm
index b3c4166d1a..0b5c43e2b8 100644
--- a/guix/gexp.scm
+++ b/guix/gexp.scm
@@ -167,7 +167,11 @@ designates a flat file and RECURSIVE? is true, its contents are added, and its
permission bits are kept.
This is the declarative counterpart of the 'interned-file' monadic procedure."
- (%local-file file name recursive?))
+ ;; Canonicalize FILE so that if it's a symlink, it is resolved. Failing to
+ ;; do that, when RECURSIVE? is #t, we could end up creating a dangling
+ ;; symlink in the store, and when RECURSIVE? is #f 'add-to-store' would just
+ ;; throw an error, both of which are inconvenient.
+ (%local-file (canonicalize-path file) name recursive?))
(define-gexp-compiler (local-file-compiler (file local-file?) system target)
;; "Compile" FILE by adding it to the store.
diff --git a/tests/gexp.scm b/tests/gexp.scm
index fee7d87d00..32031663f5 100644
--- a/tests/gexp.scm
+++ b/tests/gexp.scm
@@ -109,6 +109,25 @@
(eq? x local)))
(equal? `(display ,intd) (gexp->sexp* exp)))))
+(test-assert "one local file, symlink"
+ (let ((file (search-path %load-path "guix.scm"))
+ (link (tmpnam)))
+ (dynamic-wind
+ (const #t)
+ (lambda ()
+ (symlink (canonicalize-path file) link)
+ (let* ((local (local-file link "my-file" #:recursive? #f))
+ (exp (gexp (display (ungexp local))))
+ (intd (add-to-store %store "my-file" #f
+ "sha256" file)))
+ (and (gexp? exp)
+ (match (gexp-inputs exp)
+ (((x "out"))
+ (eq? x local)))
+ (equal? `(display ,intd) (gexp->sexp* exp)))))
+ (lambda ()
+ (false-if-exception (delete-file link))))))
+
(test-assert "one plain file"
(let* ((file (plain-file "hi" "Hello, world!"))
(exp (gexp (display (ungexp file))))