On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:59:13AM -0800, light zoo wrote: > RE: > <http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Mar-2007/msg00035.html> > > > Mr. Mathewson wrote > > Again, if any of these warnings actually trigger in > > the code, please let me know. > > While not an error specified in the message above I > did experience an error when I tried to compile on my > Edgy Eft: (I could send the log if you would like) > > ---- > checking for libevent directory... configure: error: > Could not find a linkable libevent. You can specify an > explicit path using --with-libevent-dir > ---- > > I found a few pages like the following but I couldn't > find know how to specify --with-libevent-dir: > <http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/Jan-2006/msg00324.html> > > I had the libevent1 package "libevent1_1a-1_i386.deb" > installed before I tried to compile Tor. > > Am I missing something simple? That message also sometimes occurs when you have libevent installed, but are missing the corresponding devel package. Look for something called libevent-dev or libevent-devel. (I'll try to make the message more accurate in the upcoming 0.2.0.x-alpha series, but that's not for a while.) yrs, -- Nick Mathewson
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