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+SUMMARY = "An asynchronous event notification library"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://libevent.org/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues"
+SECTION = "libs"
+
+LICENSE = "BSD & MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=17f20574c0b154d12236d5fbe964f549"
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-${PV}-stable/${BP}-stable.tar.gz \
+    file://Makefile-missing-test-dir.patch \
+    file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "f3eeaed018542963b7d2416ef1135ecc"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "965cc5a8bb46ce4199a47e9b2c9e1cae3b137e8356ffdad6d94d3b9069b71dc2"
+
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://libevent.org/"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}-${PV}-stable"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "--enable-openssl,--disable-openssl,openssl"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+# Needed for Debian packaging
+LEAD_SONAME = "libevent-2.1.so"
+
+inherit ptest
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+	install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test
+	for file in ${B}/test/.libs/regress ${B}/test/.libs/test*
+	do
+		install -m 0755 $file ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test
+	done
+}