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Guus Sliepen 6bc5d626a8 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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Before you can start compiling tinc from a fresh git clone, you have
to install the very latest versions of the following packages:
- OpenSSL
- zlib
- lzo
- GCC
- automake
- autoconf
- gettext
Then you have to let the autotools create all the autogenerated files, using
this command:
autoreconf -fsi
If you change configure.in or any Makefile.am file, you will have to rerun
autoreconf. After this, you can run configure and make as usual. To create a
tarball suitable for release, run:
make dist
To clean up your working copy so that no autogenerated files remain, run:
git clean -f