diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4062651d..3debbe01 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ dnl AC_FUNC_MEMCMP
 AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL
 AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(waitpid wait4 getcwd chown chmod lchmod mknod mkfifo \
-    fchmod fstat ftruncate strchr readlink link utime utimes lutimes strftime \
+    fchmod fchmodat fstat ftruncate strchr readlink link utime utimes lutimes strftime \
     chflags getattrlist mktime innetgr linkat \
     memmove lchown vsnprintf snprintf vasprintf asprintf setsid strpbrk \
     strlcat strlcpy stpcpy strtol mallinfo mallinfo2 getgroups setgroups geteuid getegid \
diff --git a/syscall.c b/syscall.c
index e317bccc..f3a60e28 100644
--- a/syscall.c
+++ b/syscall.c
@@ -788,6 +788,8 @@ int do_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode)
 				break;
 			if (errno == ENOTSUP)
 				code = 1;
+# elif defined HAVE_FCHMODAT
+			code = fchmodat(AT_FDCWD, path, mode & CHMOD_BITS, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
 # else
 			code = 1;
 # endif