diff --git a/Control/AthenaServices/src/AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr.cxx b/Control/AthenaServices/src/AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr.cxx
index d0f14b9be8bfef0d4bd813ccfea88d61559616e5..3987be253db9c8cd89355153911379c8aeea7693 100644
--- a/Control/AthenaServices/src/AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr.cxx
+++ b/Control/AthenaServices/src/AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr.cxx
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   Copyright (C) 2002-2017 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
 */
 
-#ifdef ATHENAHIVE
 #define  ATHENASERVICES_ATHENAHIVEEVENTLOOPMGR_CPP
 
 #include <cassert>
@@ -1324,7 +1323,6 @@ StatusCode AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr::clearWBSlot(int evtSlot)  {
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-#endif /*ATHENAHIVE*/
 
 
 
diff --git a/Control/AthenaServices/src/components/AthenaServices_entries.cxx b/Control/AthenaServices/src/components/AthenaServices_entries.cxx
index 31629b4831f00b7f9e8f03a67ba527ddb17314e6..f873d5b238343f6671bf4eb621fe08a99fccef9f 100644
--- a/Control/AthenaServices/src/components/AthenaServices_entries.cxx
+++ b/Control/AthenaServices/src/components/AthenaServices_entries.cxx
@@ -31,18 +31,14 @@
 #include "../MetaDataSvc.h"
 #include "../OutputStreamSequencerSvc.h"
 #include "../AthenaStopperAlg.h"
-#ifdef ATHENAHIVE
 #include "../AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr.h"
-#endif
 
 DECLARE_ALGORITHM_FACTORY( AthenaOutputStream )
 DECLARE_ALGORITHM_FACTORY( AthenaConditionStream )
 DECLARE_ALGORITHM_FACTORY( TestRandomSeqAlg )
 DECLARE_SERVICE_FACTORY( MultipleEventLoopMgr )
 DECLARE_SERVICE_FACTORY( AthenaEventLoopMgr )
-#ifdef ATHENAHIVE
 DECLARE_SERVICE_FACTORY( AthenaHiveEventLoopMgr )
-#endif
 DECLARE_SERVICE_FACTORY( PyAthenaEventLoopMgr )
 DECLARE_SERVICE_FACTORY( SimplePOSIXTimeKeeperSvc )
 DECLARE_SERVICE_FACTORY( MixingEventSelector )