diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4062651df..b0b5d201d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ dnl AC_FUNC_MEMCMP
 
 AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL
 AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(waitpid wait4 getcwd chown chmod lchmod mknod mkfifo \
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(waitpid wait4 getcwd chown chmod lchmod mknod mkfifo mkfifoat \
     fchmod fstat ftruncate strchr readlink link utime utimes lutimes strftime \
     chflags getattrlist mktime innetgr linkat \
     memmove lchown vsnprintf snprintf vasprintf asprintf setsid strpbrk \
diff --git a/syscall.c b/syscall.c
index e317bccc3..eee96d463 100644
--- a/syscall.c
+++ b/syscall.c
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ int do_mknod_at(const char *pathname, mode_t mode, dev_t dev)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-#if !defined MKNOD_CREATES_FIFOS && defined HAVE_MKFIFO
+#if !defined MKNOD_CREATES_FIFOS && defined HAVE_MKFIFOAT
 	if (S_ISFIFO(mode))
 		ret = mkfifoat(dfd, bname, mode);
 	else