libevent-2.1.12

Introduction to libevent

libevent is an asynchronous event notification software library. The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also supports callbacks due to signals or regular timeouts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

libevent Dependencies

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"doxygen" (for API documentation)

Installation of libevent

First, fix an issue that prevents event_rpcgen.py from working:

sed -i 's/python/&3/' event_rpcgen.py

Now Prepare libevent, issue these commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static
make

Six tests in every suite related to regress_ssl.c and regress_http.c are known to fail due to incompatibilities with OpenSSL-3. Some tests that are related to regress_dns.c are also known to fail intermittently due to insufficient test timeouts. To test the results, issue:

make verify

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Program: event_rpcgen.py
Installed Libraries: libevent_core.so, libevent_extra.so, libevent_openssl.so, libevent_pthreads.so and libevent.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/event2 and /usr/share/doc/libevent-2.1.12