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| -rw-r--r-- | guix/build/copy-build-system.scm | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/copy-build-system.scm b/guix/build/copy-build-system.scm index 6d9dc8f93b..a86f0cde29 100644 --- a/guix/build/copy-build-system.scm +++ b/guix/build/copy-build-system.scm @@ -91,7 +91,13 @@ if TARGET ends with a '/', the source is installed underneath." file)))) (format (current-output-port) "`~a' -> `~a'~%" file dest) (mkdir-p (dirname dest)) - (copy-file file dest))) + (let ((stat (lstat file))) + (case (stat:type stat) + ((symlink) + (let ((target (readlink file))) + (symlink target dest))) + (else + (copy-file file dest)))))) (define* (make-file-predicate suffixes matches-regexp #:optional (default-value #t)) "Return a predicate that returns #t if its file argument matches the |