Drop libevent and use our own event handling again.

There are several reasons for this:

- MacOS/X doesn't support polling the tap device using kqueue, requiring a
  workaround to fall back to select().
- On Windows only sockets are properly handled, therefore tinc uses a second
  thread that does a blocking ReadFile() on the TAP-Win32/64 device. However,
  this does not mix well with libevent.
- Libevent, event just the core, is quite large, and although it is easy to get
  and install on many platforms, it can be a burden.
- Libev is more lightweight and seems technically superior, but it doesn't
  abstract away all the platform differences (for example, async events are not
  supported on Windows).
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Guus Sliepen 2012-11-29 12:28:23 +01:00
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@ -339,7 +339,6 @@ having them installed, configure will give you an error message, and stop.
* OpenSSL::
* zlib::
* lzo::
* libevent::
* libcurses::
* libreadline::
@end menu
@ -458,27 +457,6 @@ make sure you build development and runtime libraries (which is the
default).
@c ==================================================================
@node libevent
@subsection libevent
@cindex libevent
For the main event loop, tinc uses the libevent library.
If this library is not installed, you wil get an error when configuring
tinc for build.
You can use your operating system's package manager to install this if
available. Make sure you install the development AND runtime versions
of this package.
If you have to install libevent manually, you can get the source code
from @url{http://libevent.org/}. Instructions on how to configure,
build and install this package are included within the package. Please
make sure you build development and runtime libraries (which is the
default).
@c ==================================================================
@node libcurses
@subsection libcurses