0. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION (Briefly)
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make verify # (optional)
$ sudo make install
1. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION (In Depth)
To build libevent, type
$ ./configure && make
 (If you got libevent from the git repository, you will
 first need to run the included "autogen.sh" script in order to
 generate the configure script.)
You can run the regression tests by running
$ make verify
Install as root via
# make install
Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:
 CFLAGS=-DUSE_DEBUG ./configure [...]
Standard configure flags should work. In particular, see:
 --disable-shared Only build static libraries
 --prefix Install all files relative to this directory.
The configure script also supports the following flags:
 --enable-gcc-warnings Enable extra compiler checking with GCC.
 --disable-malloc-replacement
 Don't let applications replace our memory
 management functions
 --disable-openssl Disable support for OpenSSL encryption.
 --disable-thread-support Don't support multithreaded environments.
2. USEFUL LINKS:
For the latest released version of Libevent, see the official website at
http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ .
There's a pretty good work-in-progress manual up at
 http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ .
For the latest development versions of Libevent, access our Git repository
via
 "git clone git://levent.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/levent/libevent"
You can browse the git repository online at
http://levent.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi .
To report bugs, request features, or submit patches to Libevent,
use the Sourceforge trackers at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=50884 .
There's also a libevent-users mailing list for talking about Libevent
use and development: http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
fixing bugs:
 Alejo
 Weston Andros Adamson
 William Ahern
 Ivan Andropov
 Avi Bab
 Gilad Benjamini
 Stas Bekman
 Joachim Bauch
 Denis Bilenko
 Julien Blache
 Kevin Bowling
 Tomash Brechko
 Kelly Brock
 Ralph Castain
 Lawnstein Chan
 Shuo Chen
 Ka-Hing Cheung
 Andrew Danforth
 Ed Day
 Christopher Davis
 Mike Davis
 Mihai Draghicioiu
 Mark Ellzey
 Shie Erlich
 Christophe Fillot
 Alexander von Gernler
 Artur Grabowski
 Dave Hart
 Michael Herf
 Sebastian Hahn
 Aaron Hopkins
 Tani Hosokawa
 Claudio Jeker
 Evan Jones
 Phua Keat
 Kevin Ko
 Brian Koehmstedt
 Marko Kreen
 Valery Kyholodov
 Scott Lamb
 Christopher Layne
 Adam Langley
 Philip Lewis
 Zhou Li
 David Libenzi
 Yan Lin
 Moshe Litvin
 Hagne Mahre
 Lubomir Marinov
 Nick Mathewson
 James Mansion
 Nicholas Marriott
 Andrey Matveev
 Caitlin Mercer
 Dagobert Michelsen
 Mansour Moufid
 Felix Nawothnig
 Trond Norbye
 Linus Nordberg
 Richard Nyberg
 Jon Oberheide
 Phil Oleson
 Dave Pacheco
 Tassilo von Parseval
 Simon Perreault
 Pierre Phaneuf
 Ryan Phillips
 Dimitre Piskyulev
 Pavel Plesov
 Jon Poland
 Robert Ransom
 Bert JW Regeer
 Peter Rosin
 Hanna Schroeter
 Ralf Schmitt
 Mike Smellie
 Kevin Springborn
 Harlan Stenn
 Ferenc Szalai
 Dug Song
 Dongsheng Song
 Brodie Thiesfield
 Jason Toffaletti
 Bas Verhoeven
 Constantine Verutin
 Zack Weinberg
 Jardel Weyrich
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