Building on BackTrack 5R3 fails to find libevent 2.x about sslsplit HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi, I quickly looked at the GNUMakefile to verify my assumption that pkg-config for detecting libevent, thus you should check following:

1.) do you have the pkg-config command available if not install it and check again if the build fails
2.) if you have pkg-config available and it is still failing check if you really have libevent 2.0 installed and not 1.x

Hope that gives some ideas to fix the problem.

Cheers
Chris

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If pkg-config is not available or does not work, the GNUmakefile searches for include/event2/event.h under /opt/local, /usr/local and /usr, or under $LIBEVENT_BASE if set. If libevent2 is installed under the /usr prefix, you do not need to set LIBEVENT_BASE.

Please make sure you have installed libevent 2.x and then let me know where the headers are if they are not under /usr/include/event2/, e.g. by running find /usr/include -name event.h.

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Assuming this is not a problem in SSLsplit and closing; please reopen if you think this is not the case.

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root@bt:~/sslsplit# find /usr/include -name event.h
/usr/include/event.h

@morfoh please be more clear, I do have pkg-config but I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with that (I just typed it and it exists, but I never messed with the pkg-config file).

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That seems to be libevent 1.x. Can you show us the output of dpkg -s libevent-dev?

I think BT 5R3 is based on Ubuntu lucid, where libevent-dev is at 1.x:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=libevent-dev

If so, you will need to build libevent 2.x from source.

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