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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.in | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tor-doc.html | 5 |
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ Quickstart version for users: +-1) If you don't have libevent, install it. Source is at + http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ . 0) Download the absolute newest version. No, really. http://tor.eff.org/dist/ 1) tar xvf it, and then cd into the directory. @@ -42,6 +44,10 @@ If you got the source from cvs: If the quickstart doesn't work for you: + Starting with Tor 0.1.0.0, Tor uses libevent for its asynchronous + networking core. If you don't have libevent, you'll need to install it. + You can get it at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/. + If you have problems finding libraries, try CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \ ./configure diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index 56bb05c745..19ad3cbfde 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket, [socket]) AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, [nsl]) AC_SEARCH_LIBS(pthread_create, [pthread]) AC_SEARCH_LIBS(pthread_detach, [pthread]) -AC_SEARCH_LIBS(event_loop, [event], , AC_MSG_ERROR(Libevent library not found. Tor requires libevent to build.)) +AC_SEARCH_LIBS(event_loop, [event], , AC_MSG_ERROR(Libevent library not found. Tor requires libevent to build. You can get the latest version of libevent at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ )) saved_LIBS="$LIBS" saved_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html index 258bf0465c..a91cd7baf0 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc.html @@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ package</a>), these steps are already done for you, and you may even already have Tor started in the background (logging to /var/log/something).</p> +<p><b>For newer releases</b>: To build Tor version 0.1.0.1-rc or later from +source, you will need Niels Provos's <tt>libevent</tt> library; you can get +the source for the latest version +<a href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">here</a></a> + <p>In any case, see the <a href="#client">next section</a> for what to <i>do</i> with it now that you've got it running.</p> |