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+0. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION (Briefly)
+
+$ ./configure
+$ make
+$ make verify # (optional)
+$ sudo make install
+
+1. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION (In Depth)
+
+To build libevent, type
+
+$ ./configure && make
+
+ (If you got libevent from the git repository, you will
+ first need to run the included "autogen.sh" script in order to
+ generate the configure script.)
+
+You can run the regression tests by running
+
+$ make verify
+
+Install as root via
+
+# make install
+
+Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
+
+To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:
+
+ CFLAGS=-DUSE_DEBUG ./configure [...]
+
+Standard configure flags should work. In particular, see:
+
+ --disable-shared Only build static libraries
+ --prefix Install all files relative to this directory.
+
+
+The configure script also supports the following flags:
+
+ --enable-gcc-warnings Enable extra compiler checking with GCC.
+ --disable-malloc-replacement
+ Don't let applications replace our memory
+ management functions
+ --disable-openssl Disable support for OpenSSL encryption.
+ --disable-thread-support Don't support multithreaded environments.
+
+2. USEFUL LINKS:
+
+For the latest released version of Libevent, see the official website at
+http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ .
+
+There's a pretty good work-in-progress manual up at
+ http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ .
+
+For the latest development versions of Libevent, access our Git repository
+via
+ "git clone git://levent.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/levent/libevent"
+
+You can browse the git repository online at
+http://levent.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi .
+
+To report bugs, request features, or submit patches to Libevent,
+use the Sourceforge trackers at
+https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=50884 .
+
+There's also a libevent-users mailing list for talking about Libevent
+use and development: http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/
+
+3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+
+The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
+fixing bugs:
+
+ Alejo
+ Weston Andros Adamson
+ William Ahern
+ Ivan Andropov
+ Avi Bab
+ Gilad Benjamini
+ Stas Bekman
+ Joachim Bauch
+ Denis Bilenko
+ Julien Blache
+ Kevin Bowling
+ Kelly Brock
+ Ralph Castain
+ Shuo Chen
+ Ka-Hing Cheung
+ Andrew Danforth
+ Christopher Davis
+ Mike Davis
+ Mihai Draghicioiu
+ Mark Ellzey
+ Shie Erlich
+ Alexander von Gernler
+ Artur Grabowski
+ Michael Herf
+ Sebastian Hahn
+ Aaron Hopkins
+ Tani Hosokawa
+ Claudio Jeker
+ Evan Jones
+ Valery Kyholodov
+ Marko Kreen
+ Scott Lamb
+ Christopher Layne
+ Adam Langley
+ Christopher Layne
+ Philip Lewis
+ Zhou Li
+ David Libenzi
+ Yan Lin
+ Moshe Litvin
+ Hagne Mahre
+ Lubomir Marinov
+ Nick Mathewson
+ James Mansion
+ Nicholas Marriott
+ Andrey Matveev
+ Caitlin Mercer
+ Dagobert Michelsen
+ Felix Nawothnig
+ Trond Norbye
+ Linus Nordberg
+ Richard Nyberg
+ Jon Oberheide
+ Phil Oleson
+ Dave Pacheco
+ Tassilo von Parseval
+ Simon Perreault
+ Pierre Phaneuf
+ Ryan Phillips
+ Dimitre Piskyulev
+ Pavel Plesov
+ Jon Poland
+ Bert JW Regeer
+ Hanna Schroeter
+ Ralf Schmitt
+ Mike Smellie
+ Kevin Springborn
+ Ferenc Szalai
+ Dug Song
+ Brodie Thiesfield
+ Jason Toffaletti
+ Bas Verhoeven
+ Constantine Verutin
+ Zack Weinberg
+ Taral
+ propanbutan
+ mmadia
+
+If we have forgotten your name, please contact us.