Only use -levent when checking functions if we will use it to link.

Fixes 19904; bugfix on b62abf9f21499ab; patch from Rubiate.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f6edb3a513..23371d3b4b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -490,21 +490,17 @@ void *event_init(void);],
 event_init();
 ], [--with-libevent-dir], [/opt/libevent])
 
-dnl Now check for particular libevent functions.
+dnl Determine the incantation needed to link libevent.
 save_LIBS="$LIBS"
 save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
 save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-LIBS="-levent $STATIC_LIBEVENT_FLAGS $TOR_LIB_WS32 $LIBS"
+
+LIBS="$STATIC_LIBEVENT_FLAGS $TOR_LIB_WS32 $save_LIBS"
 LDFLAGS="$TOR_LDFLAGS_libevent $LDFLAGS"
 CPPFLAGS="$TOR_CPPFLAGS_libevent $CPPFLAGS"
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([evutil_secure_rng_set_urandom_device_file \
-                evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes \
-])
 
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(event2/event.h event2/dns.h event2/bufferevent_ssl.h)
 
-LIBS="$STATIC_LIBEVENT_FLAGS $TOR_LIB_WS32 $save_LIBS"
-
 if test "$enable_static_libevent" = "yes"; then
    if test "$tor_cv_library_libevent_dir" = "(system)"; then
      AC_MSG_ERROR("You must specify an explicit --with-libevent-dir=x option when using --enable-static-libevent")
@@ -527,6 +523,11 @@ else
      fi
 fi
 
+dnl Now check for particular libevent functions.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([evutil_secure_rng_set_urandom_device_file \
+                evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes \
+])
+
 LIBS="$save_LIBS"
 LDFLAGS="$save_LDFLAGS"
 CPPFLAGS="$save_CPPFLAGS"