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+DESCRIPTION = "an asynchronous event notification library"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/"
+SECTION = "libs"
+
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://event.c;endline=26;md5=bc20aa63bf60c36c2d8edb77746f6b7c"
+
+PR = "r0"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.monkey.org/~provos/${BPN}-${PV}-stable.tar.gz"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}-${PV}-stable"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+LEAD_SONAME = "libevent-1.4.so"