Subject: Re: Has anyone ported Niels Provos' libevent?
To: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/05/2002 10:42:20
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:30:27AM +0100, Chris Wareham wrote:
> While poking around the OpenBSD Journal website, I came
> across a mention of Niels Provos' libevent library:
> 
>    http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
> 
> This looks like a really neat bit of code, but as you
> can no doubt guess, I run NetBSD rather than Open. So
> has anyone ported libevent to NetBSD? If not is it likely
> that it could be easily ported? I know that the same
> authors systrace made a rapid transition from OpenBSD to
> Net, so I'm hoping that the same could be true for
> libevent.

The latest version appears to be autoconf'ed and seems to compile as is 
on NetBSD. It might just work -- looks like there are some tests with it.

cheers,
Chris