diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/build b/packages/devel/libevent/build
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+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/build
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=/usr \
+            --exec-prefix=/usr \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --datadir=/usr/share \
+            --enable-shared \
+            --disable-static \
+
+make
+
+$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/install b/packages/devel/libevent/install
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index 0000000000..f90efd0db0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/install
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.libs/libevent*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
+
diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/url b/packages/devel/libevent/url
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+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/url
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz
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