diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ffe9d87c85..352a0b804f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Dec 17 17:07:39 CET 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: detect syslog.h
+
 Wed Dec 17 09:28:15 CET 2008 Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
 
 	* Makefile.maint: use $(top_srcdir) for m4/ and $(VC_LIST)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 7f555cec01..8141912e73 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ dnl Availability of various common functions (non-fatal if missing).
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([cfmakeraw regexec uname sched_getaffinity getuid getgid])
 
 dnl Availability of various common headers (non-fatal if missing).
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([pwd.h paths.h regex.h sys/syslimits.h sys/utsname.h sys/wait.h winsock2.h sched.h termios.h sys/poll.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([pwd.h paths.h regex.h sys/syslimits.h sys/utsname.h sys/wait.h winsock2.h sched.h termios.h sys/poll.h syslog.h])
 
 dnl Where are the XDR functions?
 dnl If portablexdr is installed, prefer that.