Why do we need #ifndef HAVE_AUDIT_SYSCALLS in bin/auditdistd/parse.y?

[0mp]

What is the reason behind this piece of code in bin/auditdistd/parse.y:

openbsm/bin/auditdistd/parse.y

Lines 229 to 232 in 104237f

	#ifndef HAVE_AUDIT_SYSCALLS
	pjdlog_error("Sender functionality is not available.");
	return (1);
	#endif

I'm trying to port auditdistd over to Linux, which obviously doesn't support HAVE_AUDIT_SYSCALLS (as fair as I know). I wasn't able to find out, however, what syscalls are needed by auditdistd to run the presence of which is tested with HAVE_AUDIT_SYSCALLS.

Thanks!

References

• The original commit: 59c0a95

[0mp]

As per this ancient commit message:

Use HAVE_AUDIT_SYSCALLS to detect if we are being compiled on a
system that will also use our auditd. If HAVE_AUDIT_SYSCALLS is
not define, return an error when 'sender' configuration exists
in the configuration file

It looks like we could remove it in the future when auditdistd is finally ported to run on Linux.