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diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm
index 74b4c49f90..871e59cfdc 100644
--- a/guix/gexp.scm
+++ b/guix/gexp.scm
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
gexp-input-native?
assume-valid-file-name
+ assume-source-relative-file-name
local-file
local-file?
local-file-file
@@ -485,6 +486,12 @@ the given file name is valid, even if it's not a string literal, and thus not
warn about it."
file)
+(define-syntax-rule (assume-source-relative-file-name file)
+ "This is a syntactic keyword to tell 'local-file' that it can assume that
+the given file is relative to the source directory, even if it's not a string
+literal."
+ file)
+
(define-syntax local-file
(lambda (s)
"Return an object representing local file FILE to add to the store; this
@@ -503,13 +510,19 @@ where FILE is the entry's absolute file name and STAT is the result of
This is the declarative counterpart of the 'interned-file' monadic procedure.
It is implemented as a macro to capture the current source directory where it
appears."
- (syntax-case s (assume-valid-file-name)
+ (syntax-case s (assume-valid-file-name assume-source-relative-file-name)
((_ file rest ...)
(string? (syntax->datum #'file))
;; FILE is a literal, so resolve it relative to the source directory.
#'(%local-file file
(delay (absolute-file-name file (current-source-directory)))
rest ...))
+ ((_ (assume-source-relative-file-name file) rest ...)
+ ;; FILE is not a literal, but the user requested we look it up
+ ;; relative to the current source directory.
+ #'(%local-file file
+ (delay (absolute-file-name file (current-source-directory)))
+ rest ...))
((_ (assume-valid-file-name file) rest ...)
;; FILE is not a literal, so resolve it relative to the current
;; directory. Since the user declared FILE is valid, do not pass