[Libevent-users] Building from svn co: missing stuff?

[Bruce Walker]

Bruce Walker wrote:
> I've been copying in missing bits from the libevent-1.2a.tar.gz 
> tarball and it almost builds.  I'm stuck at,
>
> /usr/local/bin/bash ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
> -I. -I.  -Icompat     -O -pipe  -g -O2 -Wall -c -o event.lo `test -f 
> 'event.c' || echo './'`event.c
> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
> *** Error code 1

Ok, turns out that *that* error was caused by me copying in files that 
had been configured in the ports tree on a FreeBSD 6.1 system to my 
compile box running FreeBSD 4.10.  Fixed by copying files from the 4.10 
ports tree.  D'oh!

But I'm still mystified by the lack of configure files in the svn tree.  
I'd still be interested in the 10-cent tour of that.