I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior. Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task': $ tar tvf /gnu/store/*-task*.tar.gz | grep -E '/src/(tw|cal |calendar|task)' lrwxr-xr-x ultrafredde/staff 0 2015-02-16 23:45 task-2.4.1/src/cal -> task lrwxr-xr-x ultrafredde/staff 0 2015-02-16 23:45 task-2.4.1/src/calendar -> task lrwxr-xr-x ultrafredde/staff 0 2015-02-16 23:45 task-2.4.1/src/tw -> task When I run build, I got this backtrace: phase `unpack' succeeded after 0 seconds starting phase `patch-usr-bin-file' phase `patch-usr-bin-file' succeeded after 0 seconds starting phase `patch-source-shebangs' Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 15 [catch #t # ...] In unknown file: ?: 14 [apply-smob/1 #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 13 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 432: 12 [eval # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 2401: 11 [save-module-excursion #] 4050: 10 [#] 1724: 9 [%start-stack load-stack #] 1729: 8 [#] In unknown file: ?: 7 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/ix1s7q448frw02wy9xvzhd66vh08lxcw-taskwarrior-2.4.1-guile-builder"] In ice-9/eval.scm: 387: 6 [eval # ()] In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 830: 5 [every1 # ...] In /gnu/store/dyv4k9p9na96q4yzahdlvij3nadaz65h-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 511: 4 [# #] 164: 3 [patch-source-shebangs # ...] In unknown file: ?: 2 [remove # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1461: 1 [# "./src/cal"] In unknown file: ?: 0 [stat "./src/cal" #] ERROR: In procedure stat: ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "./src/cal" builder for `/gnu/store/vr408ijifflkqjk9lgpj3sv469fj2pik-taskwarrior-2.4.1.drv' failed with exit code 1 cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/367g51d6vh8v5m1q58hls6bn40ha1262-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/367g51d6vh8v5m1q58hls6bn40ha1262-profile.drv' failed