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Possible mkfifo configuration bug


From: Andrew Janke
Subject: Possible mkfifo configuration bug
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:20:15 -0500
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Hi, Gnulib maintainers,

I'm working with GNU Octave and we're having an issue with mkfifo in Gnulib. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55273

When we configure and build Gnulib on macOS, it builds the mkfifo() replacement function that just returns an ENOSYS error, even though mkfifo is present. This results in all mkfifo() calls failing.

The configure output indicates that mkfifo is found:

configure:57847: checking for mkfifo
configure:57872: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -I/usr/local/opt/readline/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/qt/include -I/usr/local/opt/sundials27/include -I/usr/local/opt/qscintilla2/include  -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib -F/usr/local/opt/qt/lib -L/usr/local/opt/sundials27/lib -L/usr/local/opt/qscintilla2/lib conftest.c  -lm  >&5 ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/local/opt/sundials27/lib'
configure:57872: $? = 0
configure:57881: result: yes
configure:57887: checking whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes
configure:57935: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread   -

But there is no HAVE_MKFIFO present in the resulting config.h file.

Manually doing a CPPFLAGS="-DHAVE_MKFIFO" fixes it.

Possibly related to this change: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=b24b6bbf9cf4cdc0d5d011b20dd74916507a6153

There's no "HAVE_MKFIFO=1" statement anywhere in m4/mkfifo.m4 now. Should there be one in the "else" branch of "test $gl_cv_func_mkfifo = no"?

Cheers,
Andrew Janke



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