Commit 037487d9 authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson 🤹
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Mention libevent in more docs. 


svn:r3913
parent 51f04b68

INSTALL

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Quickstart version for users:



-1) If you don't have libevent, install it.  Source is at

    http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ .

0) Download the absolute newest version. No, really.

  http://tor.eff.org/dist/

1) tar xvf it, and then cd into the directory.
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If the quickstart doesn't work for you:



  Starting with Tor 0.1.0.0, Tor uses libevent for its asynchronous

  networking core.  If you don't have libevent, you'll need to install it.

  You can get it at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/.



  If you have problems finding libraries, try

    CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \

    ./configure

configure.in

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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket, [socket]) 
AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, [nsl])

AC_SEARCH_LIBS(pthread_create, [pthread])

AC_SEARCH_LIBS(pthread_detach, [pthread])

AC_SEARCH_LIBS(event_loop, [event], , AC_MSG_ERROR(Libevent library not found. Tor requires libevent to build.))

AC_SEARCH_LIBS(event_loop, [event], , AC_MSG_ERROR(Libevent library not found. Tor requires libevent to build.  You can get the latest version of libevent at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ ))



saved_LIBS="$LIBS"

saved_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"

doc/tor-doc.html

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@@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ package</a>), these steps are already done for you, and you may 
even already have Tor started in the background (logging to

/var/log/something).</p>



<p><b>For newer releases</b>: To build Tor version 0.1.0.1-rc or later from

source, you will need Niels Provos's <tt>libevent</tt> library; you can get

the source for the latest version

<a href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">here</a></a>



<p>In any case, see the <a href="#client">next section</a> for what to

<i>do</i> with it now that you've got it running.</p>