[tor-dev] ./configure in 0.2.9.9 is ~broken?

[loki der quaeler]

Ah - ok.  Alrighty - will seek to find a way to rectify this… thanks for the quick addressing.


> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:36 PM, loki der quaeler <quaeler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Attached is a .tar.gz which has the config.log from the 0.2.8.12 configure and one from the 0.2.9.9 configure.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Both configure scripts failed to find libevent headers
> (event2/event.h, event2/dns.h, event2/bufferevent.h) -- but that
> wasn't a hard error in 0.2.8.x and it is in 0.2.9.x.  I believe this
> means the libevent on your system is too old, going by this entry in
> the changelog:
> 
>  o New system requirements:
>    - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
>      versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
>      platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
>      DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
> 
> zw
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