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Diffstat (limited to 'guix/scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/edit.scm | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/edit.scm b/guix/scripts/edit.scm index ff2d529bcf..b7b4cd2514 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/edit.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/edit.scm @@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ Start $VISUAL or $EDITOR to edit the definitions of PACKAGE...\n")) (define (search-path* path file) "Like 'search-path' but exit if FILE is not found." - (let ((absolute-file-name (search-path path file))) + (let ((absolute-file-name (or (search-path path file) + ;; It could be that FILE is a relative name + ;; i.e., not relative to an element of PATH. + (and (file-exists? file) + file)))) (unless absolute-file-name ;; Shouldn't happen unless somebody fiddled with the 'location' field. (leave (G_ "file '~a' not found in search path ~s~%") |