Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached two patches into Gnulib. The
first should fix the bug; the second fixes a couple of typos I noticed while
fixing the bug.
>From 48469200f2a9da5f36a4ef35dbbf129839780bb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:22:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mkfifo: bring back HAVE_MKFIFO macro
* m4/mkfifo.m4 (gl_FUNC_MKFIFO): #define HAVE_MKFIFO as needed.
Problem reported by Andrew Janke in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-12/msg00147.html
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
m4/mkfifo.m4 | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d1f0d630e..406e08327 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-12-27 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ mkfifo: bring back HAVE_MKFIFO macro
+ * m4/mkfifo.m4 (gl_FUNC_MKFIFO): #define HAVE_MKFIFO as needed.
+ Problem reported by Andrew Janke in:
+ https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-12/msg00147.html
+
2018-12-21 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
Assume Autoconf >= 2.63.
diff --git a/m4/mkfifo.m4 b/m4/mkfifo.m4
index 668e786fc..6a05f311b 100644
--- a/m4/mkfifo.m4
+++ b/m4/mkfifo.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# serial 7
+# serial 8
# See if we need to provide mkfifo replacement.
dnl Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_MKFIFO],
if test $gl_cv_func_mkfifo = no; then
HAVE_MKFIFO=0
else
+ AC_DEFINE([HAVE_MKFIFO], [1],
+ [Define to 1 if you have a 'mkfifo' function.])
dnl Check for Solaris 9 and FreeBSD bug with trailing slash.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([lstat])
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes],
--
2.17.1
>From a8e125d24942bc581fda1628a61a60b979ab7087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:24:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] * lib/mknodat.c: Remove incorrect comments.
---
lib/mknodat.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/mknodat.c b/lib/mknodat.c
index f595b82d9..268d1ce61 100644
--- a/lib/mknodat.c
+++ b/lib/mknodat.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ mknodat (int fd _GL_UNUSED, char const *path _GL_UNUSED,
return -1;
}
-#else /* HAVE_MKFIFO */
+#else
/* Create a file system node FILE relative to directory FD, with
access permissions and file type in MODE, and device type in DEV.
@@ -54,4 +54,4 @@ mknodat (int fd _GL_UNUSED, char const *path _GL_UNUSED,
# undef AT_FUNC_POST_FILE_PARAM_DECLS
# undef AT_FUNC_POST_FILE_ARGS
-#endif /* HAVE_MKFIFO */
+#endif
--
2.17.1
