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diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm
index b3c4166d1a..0b5c43e2b8 100644
--- a/guix/gexp.scm
+++ b/guix/gexp.scm
@@ -167,7 +167,11 @@ designates a flat file and RECURSIVE? is true, its contents are added, and its
permission bits are kept.
This is the declarative counterpart of the 'interned-file' monadic procedure."
- (%local-file file name recursive?))
+ ;; Canonicalize FILE so that if it's a symlink, it is resolved. Failing to
+ ;; do that, when RECURSIVE? is #t, we could end up creating a dangling
+ ;; symlink in the store, and when RECURSIVE? is #f 'add-to-store' would just
+ ;; throw an error, both of which are inconvenient.
+ (%local-file (canonicalize-path file) name recursive?))
(define-gexp-compiler (local-file-compiler (file local-file?) system target)
;; "Compile" FILE by adding it to the store.