1 ## Instructions for building the official rpms.
3 The process used to create the official rpms is as follows:
5 Download latest stable libevent from
6 http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
8 The first step of compiling libevent is to configure it as follows:
9 ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
11 Complete the "make" and "make install". You will need to be root,
12 or sudo -s, to complete the "make install".
14 Check for a successful universal binary of libevent.a in, by default,
15 /usr/local/lib by using the following command:
16 "file /usr/local/lib/libevent.a"
18 Download and Extract the latest tor source code from
19 https://www.torproject.org/download
21 In the resulting directory:
25 You should have at least two, maybe three, rpms. There should be the binary
26 i386.rpm, a src.rpm, and on redhat/centos machines, a debuginfo.rpm.