To build libevent, type

$ ./configure && make

Install as root via

# make install

You can run the regression tests by

$ make verify

Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.

To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:

CFLAGS=-DUSE_DEBUG ./configure [...]
 
Acknowledgements:
-----------------

The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
fixing bugs:

  Alejo
  Weston Andros Adamson
  William Ahern
  Stas Bekman
  Andrew Danforth
  Mike Davis
  Shie Erlich
  Alexander von Gernler
  Artur Grabowski
  Aaron Hopkins
  Claudio Jeker
  Scott Lamb
  Adam Langley
  Philip Lewis
  David Libenzi
  Nick Mathewson
  Andrey Matveev
  Richard Nyberg
  Jon Oberheide
  Phil Oleson
  Dave Pacheco
  Tassilo von Parseval
  Pierre Phaneuf
  Jon Poland
  Bert JW Regeer
  Dug Song
  Taral

If I have forgotten your name, please contact me.

Use the script 'make_solaris.sh' to re-build libevent.

To compile on Solaris, files event.c, configure.in and
Index: test/regress.c were modified as shown below.

Index: evport.c
===================================================================
--- evport.c	(revision 67)
+++ evport.c	(revision 222)
@@ -240,8 +240,10 @@
 grow(struct evport_data *epdp, int factor)
 {
 	struct fd_info *tmp;
+	struct fd_info *old = epdp->ed_fds;
 	int oldsize = epdp->ed_nevents;
 	int newsize = factor * oldsize;
+	int ii;
 	assert(factor > 1);
 
 	check_evportop(epdp);
@@ -252,6 +254,15 @@
 	epdp->ed_fds = tmp;
 	memset((char*) (epdp->ed_fds + oldsize), 0, 
 	    (newsize - oldsize)*sizeof(struct fd_info));
+
+	/* The ev_pending array contains pointers into the released array. */
+	for (ii = 0; ii < EVENTS_PER_GETN; ++ii) {
+		if (epdp->ed_pending[ii] != 0) {
+			int offset = epdp->ed_pending[ii] - old;
+			epdp->ed_pending[ii] = epdp->ed_fds + offset;
+		}
+	}
+
 	epdp->ed_nevents = newsize;
 
 	check_evportop(epdp);
@@ -309,9 +320,16 @@
 
 	/*
 	 * We have to convert a struct timeval to a struct timespec
-	 * (only difference is nanoseconds vs. microseconds)
+	 * (only difference is nanoseconds vs. microseconds). If no time-based
+	 * events are active, we should wait for I/O (and tv == NULL).
 	 */
-	struct timespec ts = {tv->tv_sec, tv->tv_usec * 1000};
+	struct timespec ts;
+	struct timespec *ts_p = NULL;
+	if (tv != NULL) {
+		ts.tv_sec = tv->tv_sec;
+		ts.tv_nsec = tv->tv_usec * 1000;
+		ts_p = &ts;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Before doing anything else, we need to reassociate the events we hit
@@ -330,7 +348,7 @@
 	}
 
 	if ((res = port_getn(epdp->ed_port, pevtlist, EVENTS_PER_GETN, 
-		    (unsigned int *) &nevents, &ts)) == -1) {
+		    (unsigned int *) &nevents, ts_p)) == -1) {
 		if (errno == EINTR) {
 			evsignal_process(base);
 			return (0);
@@ -473,6 +491,8 @@
 {
 	struct evport_data *evpd = arg;
 	struct fd_info *fdi;
+	int doreassoc = 1;
+	int ii;
 
 	check_evportop(evpd);
 
@@ -487,14 +507,21 @@
 		return (-1);
 	}
 
+	for (int ii = 0; ii < EVENTS_PER_GETN; ++ii) {
+		struct fd_info *fdi = evpd->ed_pending[ii];
+		if (fdi && (fdi->fdi_revt == ev || fdi->fdi_wevt == ev)) {
+			doreassoc = 0;
+		}
+	}
 
+
 	fdi = &evpd->ed_fds[ev->ev_fd];
 	if (ev->ev_events & EV_READ)
 		fdi->fdi_revt = NULL;
 	if (ev->ev_events & EV_WRITE)
 		fdi->fdi_wevt = NULL;
 
-	return reassociate(evpd, fdi, ev->ev_fd);
+	return (doreassoc) ? reassociate(evpd, fdi, ev->ev_fd) : 0;
 }
 
 
Index: test/regress.c
===================================================================
--- test/regress.c	(revision 67)
+++ test/regress.c	(revision 222)
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@
    cleanup_test();
 }
 
-int decode_int(u_int32_t *pnumber, struct evbuffer *evbuf);
+int decode_int(uint32_t *pnumber, struct evbuffer *evbuf);
 
 void
 read_once_cb(int fd, short event, void *arg)
@@ -872,10 +872,10 @@
 evtag_int_test(void)
 {
 	struct evbuffer *tmp = evbuffer_new();
-	u_int32_t integers[TEST_MAX_INT] = {
+	uint32_t integers[TEST_MAX_INT] = {
 		0xaf0, 0x1000, 0x1, 0xdeadbeef, 0x00, 0xbef000
 	};
-	u_int32_t integer;
+	uint32_t integer;
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < TEST_MAX_INT; i++) {
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in	(revision 67)
+++ configure.in	(revision 222)
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv, inet_aton)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, clock_gettime)
+AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, inet_ntoa)
 
 dnl Checks for header files.
 AC_HEADER_STDC
@@ -366,12 +367,12 @@
 
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether our compiler supports __func__])
 AC_TRY_COMPILE([],
- [void foo() { const char *cp = __func__; }],
+ [ const char *cp = __func__; ],
  AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]),
  AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether our compiler supports __FUNCTION__])
  AC_TRY_COMPILE([],
-   [void foo() { const char *cp = __FUNCTION__; }],
+   [ const char *cp = __FUNCTION__; ],
    AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
    AC_DEFINE(__func__, __FUNCTION__,
          [Define to appropriate substitue if compiler doesnt have __func__]),
Index: event.c
===================================================================
--- event.c	(revision 67)
+++ event.c	(revision 222)
@@ -753,7 +753,8 @@
 	if (gettime(&now) == -1)
 		return (-1);
 
-	if (timercmp(&ev->ev_timeout, &now, <=)) {
+	/* Solaris timercmp macro does not properly handle <= */
+	if (!timercmp(&ev->ev_timeout, &now, >)) {
 		timerclear(tv);
 		return (0);
 	}

Indexes created Sat Nov 28 01:19:25 UTC 2009

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