[Libevent-users] [PATCH] Add autoconf/make functionality for --disable-dns, --disable-http, and --disable-bevents

[Chris Brody-GMail]

On 10/2/07, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:35:48AM +0200, Robert Iakobashvili wrote:
>  [...]
> > libcurl has developed a good API for its integration with libevent.
> > libcurl project also maintains and develops a very good asynchronous DNS
> > client library, called c-ares (a clone of ares).
> >
> > Could it be a better path to concentrate the community efforts on
> > integration of c-ares and libcurl with libevent and to assist better
> > to applications?
>
> I would love somebody to get c-ares working right with libevent.  I
> don't think this is a matter of "concentrating the community efforts",
> however: I think it's a matter of somebody stepping up to contribute
> the right patch to c-ares.
[...]
I am happy to take a look in my free time, despite a lack of
experience with libcurl & c-ares. I hope the HTTP & DNS parts of
libevent can be officially built separately, regardless about where
the source code is kept.

Due to a lack of "official" RPM, my company is building libevent
ourselves, so I would like to try Christopher's patches to Makefile.am
& configure.in internally and report the results.

I would like to suggest another idea, to automatically build both a
"full" libevent library and a set of separated libevent parts, until
the next major release.

Chris