#13992 closed task (invalid)
Examine whether libev can replace libevent
| Reported by: | Pierre Labastie | Owned by: | Pierre Labastie |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 10.1 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Some curl tests seem to require nghttpx, a proxy server, see ticket #13854. This application is in the nghttp2 package, which is in the book, but it is not built, because (i) we pass --enable-lib-only to configure, and (ii) one dependency libev, is missing. On the libev site, it is said that:
[libev] can be used as a libevent replacement using its emulation API
So the aim of this ticket is to determine whether this is true, and whether the packages dependant on libevent can still be built with libev (or better, whether libev can just be dropped in place of libevent).
The users of libevent in the book are:
- ntp (optional)
- avahi (optional)
- nghttp2 (optional, but could be a mistake owing to above)
- links (recommended)
- mariadb (recommended)
- unbound (optional)
- qtwebengine (optional)
- firefox (recommended, used by libxul.so)
- seamonkey (recommended)
- thunderbird (recommended)
- transmission (required)
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 4 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 4 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Well, libev provides event.h, and so does libevent, but libevent tells that this header file is deprecated... So I fear that the claim on the libev site is just wrong, so this ticket is invalid...
comment:3 by , 4 years ago
Couldn't we add this package anyway since the event.h header is deprecated in libevent? Someone would need to have both installed and test the packages listed above though
I fear that the drop in replacement is not possible: using ldd, all the dependant packages want a versioned libevent library (libevent-2.1.so.7 as of 10.0). But rebuilding them may still be possible...