[pacman-dev] [PATCH 4/4] makepkg: Use mkfifo instead of GNU-only 'mknod <file> p'

Nezmer git at nezmer.info
Mon Oct 11 15:16:49 EDT 2010


'mknod <file> p' is apparently GNU-only. Looking at coreutils' source
code, It just calls mkfifo.

This one line patch should fix makepkg logging in non-GNU systems.

Signed-off-by: Nezmer <git at nezmer.info>
---
 scripts/makepkg.sh.in |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index baabf26..afedc31 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ run_function() {
 
 		# ensure overridden package variables survive tee with split packages
 		logpipe=$(mktemp -u "$startdir/logpipe.XXXXXXXX")
-		mknod "$logpipe" p
+		mkfifo "$logpipe"
 		exec 3>&1
 		tee "$BUILDLOG" < "$logpipe" &
 		exec 1>"$logpipe" 2>"$logpipe"
-- 
1.7.3.1



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