On 28 November 2016 at 16:23, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 November 2016 at 06:40, Daniel E. Macks <[email protected]> wrote: >> A bunch of info/t tests in texinfo-6.3 were SKIPped on my OS X 10.11 >> box, all as a result of 'mknod' being detected but then failing in >> Init-inter.inc. I do have /sbin/mknod, but it's not GNUish. In >> particular, it doesn't support the "p" token to cause creation of a >> named FIFO pipe. If I install GNU coreutils, I do get a mknod that >> behaves the way the tests want, and the tests succeed. But darwin does >> have 'mkfifo', and if I use that instead of mknod, the tests also >> succeed. >> >> It's not as simple as setting an autoconf variable whose value could >> be "mknod" or "mkfifo", because mkfifo implicitly knows to create >> named pipes (no token to pass). That is, GNU wants: >> >> mknod FOO p >> >> but darwin needs: >> >> mkfifo FOO > > I wonder if we should just use "mkfifo" instead
Done.
