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"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrot=
e:
>
>> Even shorter:
>>
>>   (source "/some/file/out/there")
>>
>> or:
>>
>>   (source ".")
>
> I think there is a bug here because I've tried this at various points
> in time and it has never worked.  A pattern matcher somewhere fails
> because a string isn't considered an acceptable source object.

I haven=E2=80=99t experience this bug (and see "package-source-derivation, =
file"
in tests/packages.scm).  However, I=E2=80=99m happy to say that since commit
da675305ddf2ba574e309e515d18ae1f778297be, it is possible to use a
=E2=80=98local-file=E2=80=99 there:

  (package
    ;; =E2=80=A6
    (source (local-file "foo/bar" #:recursive? #t)))

See =E2=80=98current-guix=E2=80=99 in (gnu packages package-management) for=
 an example.

Ludo=E2=80=99.