Thread: Remove --enable-syslog?

Originally, I added --enable-syslog because it used to be an option in
config.h only.  However, I wonder why we don't always compile it in, it's
off by default anyway.  The only reason I could think of is a portability
problem.  Is there any platform that does not supply the standard syslog
interface?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

> Originally, I added --enable-syslog because it used to be an option in
> config.h only.  However, I wonder why we don't always compile it in, it's
> off by default anyway.  The only reason I could think of is a portability
> problem.  Is there any platform that does not supply the standard syslog
> interface?

If we have configure to test for its existance, I can't see why we
wouldn't want it enabled in the binary.
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Is there any platform that does not supply the standard syslog
> interface?

Why worry?  Do AC_CHECK_FUNC(syslog), or some such.
        regards, tom lane