Hi,

The following line raises an error:

guix-download "file://$abs_top_srcdir/README"

test-suite.log:

warning: daemon is running as root, so using `--build-users-group' is
highly recommended

[...]

+ guix-download file:///README
accepted connection from pid 29454, uid 0
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 10 [catch #t #<catch-closure 96fcad0> ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 9 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 96fcad0>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  63: 8 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 421: 7 [eval # #]
In unknown file:
   ?: 6 [call-with-input-string "(apply (module-ref (resolve-interface '(guix-download)) 'guix-download) (cdr (command-line)))" ...]
In ice-9/command-line.scm:
 174: 5 [#<procedure 96fe960 at ice-9/command-line.scm:169:3 (port)> #<input: string 95f88e8>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 4 [eval (apply (module-ref # #) (cdr #)) #<directory (guile-user) 96a9678>]
In guix-download:
 150: 3 [guix-download "file:///README"]
In guix/store.scm:
 458: 2 [add-to-store # "README" #t ...]
 226: 1 [dump "/README"]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [lstat "/README"]

ERROR: In procedure lstat:
ERROR: In procedure lstat: No such file or directory: "/README"
error processing client input: unexpected end-of-file
1 operations
./test-env: line 1: 29445 Terminated
"/home/guix-0.1/guix-daemon" --disable-chroot

Nikita